Taken from http://d20innovation.d20blogs.org/2012/11/03/assessing-21st-century-skills/
The 21st-Century Student Experience The voice of the active learner By Prof. Jonathan Acuña-Solano, M. Ed. School of English Faculty of Social Sciences Universidad Latina de Costa Rica Thursday, March 24, 2016 Post 238
“What do we know about today’s ‘new students’? Perhaps most obviously, we know that these students have been heavily influenced by information technology” (Oblinger, 2003). But what happened to us, pre-digital era learners? What was it like to be a student when we were in college, say, around the 80s? And now that we are in charge of the education of millennials, we “current higher education administrators, as well as many faculty and staff, represent a different generation from the majority of the student population” (Oblinger, 2003); our “different generation” had very different learning, studying habits when compared to what 21st learners do. Pre-digital era learners had a different way of doing things! We college students in the 80s (and before) studied differently. Though those learning, studying approaches