The new kind of learner

From: E-Pedagogy by Bobby Elliot, (2009), www.scribd.com/doc/932164/E-Pedagogy The new kind of learner: 1. active learning rather than passive receiving of knowledge. 2. authentic learning experiences rather than contrived tasks. 3. construction rather than instruction. 4. task (not process) oriented. 5. just in time learning. 6. search not memorise. 7. doesn't know answer but knows where to find it. 8. google not libraries. 9. collaborate not complete. "Todays students have not changes incrementally from those of the past. A really big discontinuity has taken place. One might even call it a singularity - an event which changes things so fundamentally that there is no going back. This singularity is the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technologies in the last decades of the 20th Century."