Eight 21st Century Benefits of using Technology
A. Creativity and Innovation:
Creativity is using existing knowledge and originality to generate and develop new ideas or products. Innovation is acting on creative ideas to make a tangible contribution to society.
B. Communication and Collaboration:
Communication is the ability to convey ones thoughts effectively to others, and Collaboration is demonstrating the ability to work together effectively to solve problems.
C. Research and Information Literacy:
This involves the ability to analyze information critically, determine what information is needed; locate; synthesize, evaluate, and use information effectively.
D. Critical Thinking:
Critical thinking requires the abilities to analyze, evaluate, synthesize, interpret, and make connections between bits of information.
E. Nonlinear Thinking:
“Human thought characterized by expansion in multiple directions, rather than in one direction, and based on the concept that there are multiple starting points from which one can apply logic to problem.
F. Visual Literacy and Visual Thinking:
Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, make meaning and create messages from information presented in the form of images. Visual thinking is the ability to turn information of all types into pictures, graphics, and other visual forms to communicate information with images.
G. Spatial Thinking:
Spatial thinking is a set of cognitive skills that require individuals to have an awareness of space.
H. Digital age Reflection:
Teachers need to look at what they are learning and be able to look deeper to understand exactly what it is that they are trying to convey to their students by teaching them the skills of the technological world.
Creativity is using existing knowledge and originality to generate and develop new ideas or products. Innovation is acting on creative ideas to make a tangible contribution to society.
B. Communication and Collaboration:
Communication is the ability to convey ones thoughts effectively to others, and Collaboration is demonstrating the ability to work together effectively to solve problems.
C. Research and Information Literacy:
This involves the ability to analyze information critically, determine what information is needed; locate; synthesize, evaluate, and use information effectively.
D. Critical Thinking:
Critical thinking requires the abilities to analyze, evaluate, synthesize, interpret, and make connections between bits of information.
E. Nonlinear Thinking:
“Human thought characterized by expansion in multiple directions, rather than in one direction, and based on the concept that there are multiple starting points from which one can apply logic to problem.
F. Visual Literacy and Visual Thinking:
Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, make meaning and create messages from information presented in the form of images. Visual thinking is the ability to turn information of all types into pictures, graphics, and other visual forms to communicate information with images.
G. Spatial Thinking:
Spatial thinking is a set of cognitive skills that require individuals to have an awareness of space.
H. Digital age Reflection:
Teachers need to look at what they are learning and be able to look deeper to understand exactly what it is that they are trying to convey to their students by teaching them the skills of the technological world.