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=media type="youtube" key="yfpa9uTWdJE" height="315" width="420"= =Anita Benton, the creator of this Utube video, touched everything I have recently learned through our exposure to 21C learners in this course. I have been transformed and posess a whole new way of thinking about the 21C learner, an expression new to my vocabulary! Either we as teachers embrace this brave new world of learning, incorporating technology, mentoring our students forward and beyond the walls of our classrooms, or we will bore our students to death! Learning should be an ongoing experiential, project based experience. Learning should transform our students, allowing them to think out of the box,blossom creatively under our direction. Judy G.=

=Using the Wiki Widgets: Adding a Video to the Page= Assignment: Add a YouTube video that exemplifies the 21st century learner to this page. Explain why you chose that video. It can either be about 21c learners explicitly or implicitly. [|RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms R] Elyse- I chose this wonderful video to show how the educational paradigms are in need of shifting. The thinking/creative student has been smothered by the old ways(frontal teaching). The need for group work and honoring the gifts that each student brings is brought out as a desperate plea for change in the 21st Century educational system. media type="youtube" key="zDZFcDGpL4U" height="315" width="560"

When searching for a video I wanted to find something about Millennials by Millennials - what they thought of themselves in a world that has defined them as such. This two-part video hooked me initially because of its focus on the Millenials' effect on the last presidential campaign. I watched my daughter and her friends communicating with and for their candidate in amazing ways and become literate, interested voters all through the devices in their pockets. I was also captivated by the concept of "mashup" and the concept that this generation does not wait for something to be designed, but identifies the need/interest to expand their social network in even more productive ways.

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This video addresses the differences in the way a child of the 21c learns as compared to the way 20c learners have traditionally learned. The most striking thing is that young learners today have a completely new way of looking or thinking. The speaker sees 21c learning as a 'debugging' process, in the same manner that computer programs are debugged. What I appreciated most about this particular very short video, is that there is a dynamic screen behind the speaker that actively demonstrates the thinking methods the speaker describes. What would have been a purely frontal, one-dimensional lecture, was changed into a much more engaging and understandable program. Another aspect I appreciated was that this learning method not only allow for, but expects the student to make mistakes. It is the correcting (or debugging) of those mistakes that force the student to learn. - Steve Friedrich media type="youtube" key="usaEGaczfQg" height="315" width="560"

How to Instructions - Click on the Widget button in the toolbar above. You will get a box with these options: Select Video (on top left column). In the next box select YouTube - on the top right column Follow the instructions for cutting and pasting the embed code from a YouTube video into the box. Click on Save.

Finding the embed code on YouTube: Go to the video you wish to embed. Look for the "Share button" on the bottom of the page. Click on it. You will see a highlighted URL on the left and an "Embed" button. Click on it. The embed code will be highlighted in blue. Cut and paste it as described above.