21st century learning

On the 06/03, our lecture explored the ides of "21st century learning and technology".  This idea explored how we could redevelop class rooms and Australians design to learning so as to stimulate the minds of young children in today's society. A number of schools around Australia have adapted new ways of teaching so as to in some ways experiment how children learn in regards to these teaching methods and their learning environment.  Immersion learning proposes that we create classes without periods, that instead we have fixed blocks of time dedicated to a specific subject such as one week to maths the following English and so on continuing through the pattern. As well as this was a quote by Steve Jobs at an apple convention where he states "tear down education designed for the 19th century to replace it for an education of the 21st century". Such discussion is useful so as to develop a better understanding for the need to include and use technology in the class room so as to engage with students and create the new generation of learners.

An example of a 21st century school is http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/funky-school/story-e6frg8h6-1226130668112#. This is a school in Australia's North West, Sydney where class rooms are not made up of your common 20 to 30 but up to numbers of 120. Students are not expected to sit down and sit facing the front of the class room where technically there is no front as there are no more than three walls. This is an example of a 21st century school where a learning environment has been developed to suit today's 21st century our technology and our children. This link is useful to us as university students as it represents an example of different teaching environments and causes us to consider the kind environment we would like to teach in and how we would form our own teaching environment to best benefit our students and best stimulate their learning.