Today's+Students

"Just as doctors need to be experts about the human body, and lawyers need to be experts about the law, and car mechanics need to be experts about how engines work, and pilots need to be experts about aerodynamics.....teachers need to be experts about learning." - Anonymous -

 media type="youtube" key="dGCJ46vyR9o" height="405" width="500" Watch the following YouTube video clip, do a QuickWrite or do a RVL (Read/View/Listen) and then share your thoughts with your small group. media type="youtube" key="tahTKdEUAPk" height="405" width="500" **Group Discussion:** Now we need to think about...who are our students? How do they differ? What are their strengths? What is their learning style or preference? How can we create multiple pathways of learning to provide a learning space whereby all students have the opportunity to learn specific content, processes and skills within our subject area?
 * Learning to Change - Changing to Learn** - Produced by the Consortium for School Networking(COSN)

[|Beloit College Mindset List] – This list “provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students” who began have graduated from high school this year and if they go on to college may graduate in the year 2012. Interesting food for thought.

Be sure to check the University of Regina's Centre of Teacher and Learning (CTL) website for [|The New Student and Technologies]