Embracing the Future: Empowering the 21st Century Educator

Autor: Teresa Franklin
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. 176:1089-1096
ISSN: 1877-0428
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.01.584
Popis: The world of education is different and you as an educator have probably been a part of at least some of the educational transformations occurring today. These have not been incremental changes but rather large encompassing changes to education, as we know it. This is a world in which education is moving from the industrial age to the connected age brought on by the increasing numbers of Web 2.0 applications. Humans are social beings with a desire to “connect, exchange, share, remix and reinvent” ( Prensky, 2005 ) all of which can be accomplished with a few friends and technology.
Databáze: OpenAIRE