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Multimedia technologies and familiar spaces: 21st-century teaching for 21st-century learners (2008)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Lambert, Judy Cuper, Pru |
| Description | This article explores 21st century skills, nonlinear thinking skills, and the need for student reflection—which, taken together, serve as an essential foundation for digital-age teaching of today’s hypertext learners. The authors discuss why preservice teachers need to use multimedia technologies within the context of students ’ familiar, technology-rich living spaces to develop their own teaching skills and the technology skills of their students. Exemplary multimedia samples are offered as demonstrations of ways to develop essential technology-related skills in the next generation of teachers. Today’s students are immersed in a variety of technologies from a young age. As such, they have been described as “wired ” or “digitized, ” but even these tags are outdated almost upon arrival. Prensky (2001a) called this first generation to grow up in a society immersed in technology “digital natives”—the generation that has spoken the language of technology from birth. Ironically, such familiarity and comfort with all things digital present challenges for educators who struggle to keep up with an ever-changing technology context and students who no longer process information primarily in a sequential manner. |
| File Format | |
| Journal | Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2008-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Next Generation Sequential Manner Technology-rich Living Space Multimedia Technology Thing Digital Present Challenge Student Reflection Teaching Skill 21st Century Skill Exemplary Multimedia Sample Technology Skill Young Age 21st-century Learner 21st-century Teaching First Generation Familiar Space Nonlinear Thinking Skill Preservice Teacher Digital-age Teaching Essential Technology-related Skill Ever-changing Technology Context Process Information Hypertext Learner Essential Foundation Today Student |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
