21st Century Classroom and Mindset

21st Century Classroom and Mindset

1. Focus: The proper implementation of e-learning for students to grow into citizens of tomorrow's society

   • Perspective 3: Edutopia
     • Biblical Worldview: Encouraging teachers to create a classroom that asks more questions than it does provide answers
       • allowing us to question incoming information, giving the reader access to make sure this lines up with what they know to be true
       • Passes the test of practicality as it is not about the number of apps, as so much as it's about providing opportunities to be critical thinkers with technology
   • Perspective #1 MIT
     • Postmodernism: discover and develop their own world, their own truth, their own sense of reality
       • answers the "how" question for readers, but fails to answer the "why question
       • creating alternate realities where students can generate their own right answers
   • Perspective #2: 21st Century Schools
     • Postmodernism: A new idea of student development in which the student is equipped to take on learning themselves
       • absence of a biblical worldivew leaves technology in the student's imagination instead of on a foundation seen in reality.
       • emotive language paints an idyllic classroom, but fails to prvide a foundation for implementation that is truth beyond pathos language

2. Personal reflection: How do you create a culture of learning within technology and still maintain a biblical worldivew?

   • Focus on development of critical thinking using the tool of technology.
     • Watch out for a Pinterest mindset where inspiration takes the forefront over the perspiration of applying a biblical worldview in this area
     • Equipping students with how to handle and utilize this tool that helps them in seeking information