21st Century Learning Solution

Digital Kids Learn Differently

Today’s students are different than students were just a few years ago. They are digital kids who learn differently by taking in and responding to rapidly transmitted sights and sounds delivered simultaneously by more than one digital media tool, such as computers, video games, MP3 players, PDA’s, and television. Digital kids need a fast-paced, multi sensory digital environment in which to learn...and they also need digital teachers.

That’s why it is so important for today’s teachers to participate in a training solution to acquire the skills necessary for teaching in a digital classroom and addressing the needs of today’s digital kids.

The Solution

Teachers Discovering Computers – Integrating Technology and Digital Media, an online course developed by 21st Century Learning Solutions (21CLS™).

TDC Product Features

Participants learn how to integrate technology into their specific curricular area by completing integration projects and projects that incorporate digital media
Anytime, anywhere distance learning that’s 100% online
Graduate–level, fully instructor–led 14–week course
Can be taken for 60 continuing education credits or 3 hours of graduate credit from Walden University
Elementary, middle and high school teachers can participate in the same TDC class

TDC Course Impact on Today’s Digital Kids

Teachers who complete the TDC course will become Digital Teachers who will engage their students and help them learn in the multi sensory mode they require to process information and build 21st century skills.

Meets ISTE Standards

Integrated throughout the TDC course curriculum are the following standards developed by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE):

National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS–T)
Technology Standards for School Administrators (TSSA)
The recently refreshed (Summer 2007) National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS–S)

TDC & the Teachers Discovering Computers Textbook

The TDC course is based on the Teachers Discovering Computers textbook.

More than 250,000 teachers have taken a university or college class using the Teachers Discovering Computers textbook
More than 12,000 teachers have taken online courses that use the Teachers Discovering Computers textbook and were developed by the professional staff of 21CLS™
» More than 94% of the aforementioned 12,000 teachers have successfully completed the online course

More About Digital Kids

To learn more about digital kids, visit these Website links:

Apple Computer
"Digital Tools for Digital Kids"

An Apple Perspective Paper (PDF)
"Achievement for All Children"

Apple Computer Research
"Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow"

Partnership for 21st Century Skills (PDF)
"Mile Guide for 21st Century Skills"

EDUCAUSE
"Educating the Net Generation"

Kaiser Family Foundation
"Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8–18 Year–olds"

Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
"School Engagement Key to Student Success"

Growing Up Digital Website
"Growing Up Digital Kids"

National Academies Press
"How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School"

Wired Magazine
"High Score Education: Games, not schools, are teaching kids to think"

The Connected Family Website
"The Irrelevancy of School"

Project Tomorrow–NetDay: Speak Up (PDF)
"Voices and Views from Today's Tech–Savvy Students"

Peter Li Education Group
"Integration Issues for 21st Century Teachers"