Challenges for 21st cetnury learning skills

  Many people are exited about new ways of learning and teaching to improve a students education. Lots of learning methods have already changed since say the 1800s, but we don't realise how hard it is  to improve the learning skills. In this blog I will be talking about some challenges we may face in developing 21st century learning skills.

Abuse of technology is a big issue. A students should be given the opportunity to explore the amazing world of technology for things like projects and reaserch, but there is always the chance that there is going to be that there is going to be that one group of kids in the back of the classroom that arn't doing what they're supposed to do and instead are checking their email or looking at something innapropreate and that group of students ruin it for the rest of the class.

$MONEY$ we never want to admit it, but we all want money. Money is a big issue for some people and it can  also be for schools. I don't just mean that a school can't afford an extra smart bord. I'm talking about the schools who can afford all these new fancy ways of learning and what impact it has on the schools who can't. Even young children know that it's not fair if one kid gets a cookie and the other kid does not, it's like that with schools. Poorer schools may be unhappy with the schools that can afford the things needed for the 21st century classroom.

My last issue is teachers. Shouldn't teachers be the ones who encourage their students to try new things? Well there can be some teachers who want to teach their students how they were taught and think that is the only affective way. It can bother students when they have to use a pencil, textbook and notebook while the other classes get to use fun gadgets like smart bords and netbooks, but thats they way their teacher wants to teach them.

There are going to be many chalenges in 21st century learning, more than I have talked about in this blog, but eventually we will overcome these chalenges and there will be more chalenges to come.We all hpoe we will have a bright future for education and hopefully for everything else as well, but the only way we can do that is by making a good impact on the future with our knowlage.

21st century learning

                  21st Century Learning
We all wonder about the future; what we'll be, what we'll look like and who will be in our lives. We all hope the future is bright for us and that the rest of our lives will be everything we've hoped for, but what we don't think about allot for the future is education. What will students learn? How will they use that knowledge? What will they do to use that knowledge for our future? In this blog I will talk about a specific part of 21st century learning which is, curiosity and imagination.

I think that curiosity and imagination are very important because the most amazing inventions in life and well everything in life were made by those two very important learning skills. Being curious can mean just wondering about things, like how can we improve education in the future? Why is education how it is now? Is education working the way it is now? Being imaginative can mean that you are good at coming up with new ideas. These two  learning skills are important for students to have and help so much with reading, writing and arts. I think a way to encourage curiosity and imagination in a 21st century classroom is to have something called an " Input bin" students can put their questions or ideas in the input pin and their teacher can answer their questions or try to add their ideas into their lessons.