How does an information and technology curriculum stay relevant and meaningful in the 21st Century? Embedded IT needs to change.
Watch this video presentation and consider:
"For the first time in history, our job as educators is to prepare our students for a future that we cannot clearly describe. Technology (cell phones, computers, the internet etc.) is as familiar to the youth of today as the television and radio was to the generation before them."
"A new literacy has emerged and with it comes a brand new set of skills, responsibilities and challenges. It is time to rethink the role that information technology plays in schools and transition from disconnected entities to partners in learning."
"Learners must be given opportunities to solve problems creatively, work alongside others, and develop their own understanding of the world."
"In order to answer the Essential Questions for the 21st Century Learner, students will need both technological and non-technological knowledge, understanding and skills.
Technology skills will be learned in school by students in the same way it is learned “in the real world”: as they need it." Curriculum2.0 NewLiteracy
Are you ready for this new literacy? 21stCentury Literacy