What does a 21st Century Professor

. . . Teaching 21st Century Students

. . . in a 21st Century Learning
Environment

look like?
And, how shall we get there?
Vikki Costa, Professor
California State University Fullerton

Commercial: Are You In?

I am no ordinary student.
I control technology that's reinventing how education
works.
I'm creating a network I'll use my whole career.
I don't fear the new economy - I am the new economy.

Who is the 21st Century

Learner?

WHAT ARE CHARACTERISTICS

OF 21ST CENTURY

STUDENTS?

Characteristics of Net Generation

90% of the Net Generation have a computer and Internet
connection at home.

64%

engaged in some form of content creation in 2007 compared

with 57% in 2006. More than 40% have their own blogs.

25% have remixed content online to create some form of artistic

expression.

(Tapscott, 2007, Loc 923)

Millennials

Pew Research Center, 2010

UBIQUITOUS CONNECTIVITY

Some research has indicated that student performance is inversely

correlated with cell phone use.
A study by Duncan, Hoekstra, and Wilcox (2012) demonstrated that students who reported
regular cell phone use in class showed an average negative grade difference.

Students also underestimated the number of times they accessed their

phones while in class.
While students reported an average access rate of three times per class, observation data
showed rate was closer to seven times.

Other students are distracted when students text in class (Tindell and
Bohlander, 2012).

Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, promotes cell phone use.

40 Quick Ways to Use Cell Phones in t

he Classroom
BackChannel, Notetaking, Flashcards, Access
Textbooks or Websites, Socrative, PollEverywhere
Polls, Take/Share Video or Images

21st Century
Students

WHAT ARE
CHARACTERISTICS
OF 21ST CENTURY

CLASSROOMS?

The 21st Century Classroom: GLOBAL

Businesses and classrooms should allow for global scope and
interactions. Businesses acquire, use, and integrate talent from
around the world - the classroom should mirror that model.

The 21st Century Classroom:

DIGITAL
ANYTIME, ANYONE, ANYPLACE,
ANYWAY
Classrooms should model global
environment that
prepares students for careers and lifelong learning
where they connect with collaborators anytime,
anyone, anywhere, asynchronously or
synchronously.

The 21st Century Classroom: GREEN

Classroom environment should
reflect social and ecologically
responsibility, as organizations are
pressured to meet these demands.

Forces Driving Online Learning

Draves & Coates, 2008, Loc 4377

Learners - people
want to be able to
learn more, for much
less cost, and with
tremendous variety
in choice.
Business todays
knowledge workers
need to learn
constantly.
The e-Learning
Advantage

Youth todays youth will choose

online learning because it is mobile,

visual, and allows for multitasking.

Benefits to Online, Hybrid, Flipped

and Blended Learning

Learners can learn during their peak learning time.

Learners can learn at their own speed.
Learners can focus on specific content areas.
Learners can assess their own progress daily.
Learners can interact more with the instructor.
Learners can acquire the data and facts fast online
because Internet links provide more resources.
Participants can come from around the world.
Opportunities are more convenient and accessible.
Draves & Coates, 2008, Loc 4361

The Future of E-Learning

Amvonet, 2013

What is an LMS?

Amvonet, 2013

WHAT ARE
CHARACTERISTICS
OF 21ST CENTURY

TEACHERS?

The 21st Century Instructor

Designs Effective Curriculum to Support
Student Success
Creates Engaging Learning
Environments
Uses a Variety of Teaching/Learning
Strategies
Assesses Student Performance
Creates Specialized Learning Materials
Applies Technology to Teaching
Enhances Professional Practice
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International Society of Technology Education

National Education Technology Standards - Teachers
Teachers exhibit
Teachers design,
knowledge,
develop, and
skills, and work
evaluate
processes
authentic
representative
learning
of an
experiences and
innovative
assessment
professional
incorporating
in a global
contemporary
Teachers
Teachers
facilitate
and digital
tools
and
understand
experiences
that
society.
resources.
local and global
advance student
responsibilities
learning,
in an evolving
creativity, and
digital
innovation in
culture and
both face-to-face
exhibit legal
and virtual
and ethical
environments.
Teachers continuously improve professional practice by
promoting
behavior.
and demonstrating
the effective use of digital tools and resources.

WHAT ARE
CHARACTERISTICS OF
21ST CENTURY

LEARNING?

3 Eras of Education
AGRARIAN AGE

1. Horse and
carriage
2. Localized
3. Preparation for
local jobs,
farmers
4. Basic literacy
5. One-room
classroom
structure
6. Limited books

INDUSTRIAL
AGE

1. Automobile
2. Comprehensive
3. Preparation for
mobility, industry
4. Advanced
literacy
5. Industrialized
model - batch
processing of
students
6. Substantial books
and print

INFORMATION
AGE

1. Internet
2. Global
3. Preparation of
knowledge
workers
4. 21st century
literacy
5. Life-long
learning,
organized by
age, ability,
interests,
networked,
extends outside
classroom

21st Century Learning Environments

Increased university enrollments
Due to increased population and need for knowledge
workers to have college degree.

50% of learning will be done online.

Information will be more visual and auditory.
Instruction will shift from conveying knowledge to
"learning by discovery
Learners will scan multiple sources of information, make
judgments, and contribute to knowledge construction,
remix, and mash-up.

21st Century Knowledge

What does it mean to create? What defines original?

CONSTR
UCT
Create
from raw
materials

REMIX
Rearrang
e the
original

MASHU
P
Fuse
disparate
elements

WHAT ARE CHARACTERISTICS

OF 21ST CENTURY

SKILLS

21st Century Skills

Creativity and Innovation
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Communication and Collaboration

NOTE: Not all

students are
digital
natives, and
all need to
develop their
"academic"
digital skills.

Flexibility and Adaptability

Initiative and Self-Direction
Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
Productivity and Accountability
Leadership and Responsibility

Information Literacy
Media Literacy
ICT Literacy

Partnership f
or 21st Centu
ry Skills

Global Awareness
Financial, Economic, Business Literacy
Civic Literacy
Health Literacy
Environmental Literacy

AND,
HOW DO WE GET THERE?

Why is Teaching with Technology

so Difficult?

Image
from
TPACK

Tips for Digital Teaching

Give digital learners

WHAT THEY WANT.
Empower students to
USE DIGITAL TOOLS
and COLLABORATE
to learn, create
knowledge mashups,
and critique/revise.
Make lecture presentations only one of MULTIPLE OPTIONS for
accessing information.
Use MULTIMEDIA options when possible.
Use progress monitoring assessments to promote INTERACTIVITY, SELF
ASSESSMENT and "CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE" learning.
For FTF, emphasize TRADITIONAL+ and use time for activities that aren't
easily completed online.
Tapscott, 2007, Loc 1912

Digital Tools and Resources

for Teaching and Learning

PLAN WITH TECHNOLOGY IN MIND

What do you want your students to know and do?
What do you want to do?

WHAT ARE
CHARACTERISTICS OF A
21ST CENTURY

UNIVERSITY?

TO WHAT DEGREE IS
YOUR UNIVERSITY
DIGITAL?

Possible University Priorities

What Does Your Graph Look Like?

7 Characteristics of a Digital University

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND WEB 2.0
SUPPORT
Students, Staff, and Faculty are supported through Web 2.0 and Social
Media tools.

DIGITAL ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT

Administrators, staff, and faculty use technology to support
completion of administrative tasks.

DIGITAL COURSEWORK
Students complete courses in traditional, blended, and online delivery
modes.

DIGITAL EXPERIENCES
Students complete internships and fieldwork in technology-rich
environments.

MORE . . . 7 Characteristics of a Digital

University
MODELING OF TECHNOLOGY
Faculty model multiple strategies for using technology
to improve teaching and learning.
USE OF TECHNOLOGY BY STUDENTS
Students use technology for collection,
communication, collaboration, presentation,
organization, and interaction.
DIGITAL ASSESSMENTS
Assessments are submitted, reviewed, and stored
electronically. Students submit/create multimedia
reflections/ action research of fieldwork and
internships. Students use digital assessment tools to
monitor their own learning.

Improve University Digital

Administration and Work Environments
Equip faculty with laptops or iPads.
Provide critical software for home use (free or low
cost).
Offer incentives for traditional+, blended, and online
delivery of courses.
Provide rubrics for assessing quality online instruction.
Provide a strong course management system.
Develop policy statements on effective online
instruction, online course syllabus requirements, and
faculty work obligations for online/hybrid online
classes.

Develop Faculty Technology

Tools and Skills
Encourage faculty to meet standards for the 21s
Century Professor.
Promote traditional+, blended, and online instruction.

Increase effective use of campus resources

(applications, survey tools, email tools, faculty
development) by faculty and administrators.
Provide robust training in digital tools.
Allocate time for technology tips and training at
department meetings and college retreats.
Give digital swag (presentation remotes, memory
sticks, iPads, iTouches, Flip Cameras, iTunes cards,
laptops).

Enhance Digital Learning

Deliver 100% of courses with support of an online
learning management system.
Transition from traditional to traditional+, blended, and online.

Model the instructional use of digital technologies.

Use Web-based multimedia/presentation/ communication/
collaboration tools.
Utilize digital content including e-textbooks.

Prepare students to be digital learners and employees.

Require students to use digital tools to demonstrate learning.
Increase student access to devices and the Internet.

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AT&T (2012, December 26). It's Not Complicated "Robot" [video file] . Retrieved from
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Burstein, D (2013). Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World. Beacon Press.
Colorado Technical University (2013, January 3). Education that Revolves Around You [video file]. Retrieved from
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For More Information

Email: vcosta@fullerton.edu
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