ENGAGE ME!

Pupils from Robin Hood primary school, Birmingham, worked with a film crew from the National College for School Leadership to express their desire to use their favourite technologies for learning in school. All their words coincide. They say to their teachers: ENGAGE ME!!!

KIDS TODAY

And now a brief video about how kids, digital learners, living in the 21st century, are creating mass culture through the use of web 2.0 tools/social networking, etc. How can school be so far of their interests?

TEACHERS ARE PEOPLE

And now a short film from 1952 about being a teacher.

WE ARE 21st CENTURY LEARNERS

Have you ever stopped to think who we are? We are 21st century learners. That means that we learn:

- by using computers, mobile phones, video cameras, MP3 players, ...
- by doing, being connected, watching others,...
- everyday we call, text, chat, blog, email, ...

But don´t forget that all of us are 21st century learners: students, teachers, parents, grandparents, ...