Mike Explains it All: Facebook

Here's a little video that i've made for my virtual communities class. So in this video, i'm trying to explain how facebook works and why is it so important for us.  It's a quick overview of its tools and features.
Hopefully you'll enjoy it and find it interesting.

21 Century Learners.

Before we talk about the 21 century learners' characteristics let me present 3 quotes that i found while surfing on the internet. I think these quotes are something to reflect upon. 

Barnett BerryFounder and CEO, Center for Teaching Quality

"Twenty-first-century learning means that students master content while producing, synthesizing, and evaluating information from a wide variety of subjects and sources with an understanding of and respect for diverse cultures."

Karen Cator
Director, Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education

"Success in the 21st century requires knowing how to learn. Students today will likely have several careers in their lifetime. They must develop strong critical thinking and interpersonal communication skills in order to be successful in an increasingly fluid, interconnected, and complex world."

Susan Rundell Singer

Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of Natural Sciences, Carleton College

"Adaptability, complex communication skills, non-routine problem solving, self-management, and systems-thinking are essential skills in the 21st-century workforce."

Here's a list of the charactertistics of a 21 century student.

Competences of the 21 century students

>Collaboration

>Critical Thinking

>Digital Literacy

Skills of the 21 century students.

>Evaluate

>Syntethize

>Produce

How does a 21 century student learn?

Internet, free software, digital developing tools and

Social Networks. 

They want to work in boardless learning territories,

where everything can be reached.

Role of the teacher? "Orchestator of Learning".
He helps the students to turn information into wisdom, by let them decide whether if the

knowledge it's relevant for them or not. Schools should stop being buldings in which students go as receptors, and should become places of exchange and enlightening.