Learning to Change/Changing to Learn
Student Voices
In 2008, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and the Pearson Foundation released the first in an ongoing series of public service announcements focused on the challenges and opportunities of integrating technology into teaching practice around the world.
The third and latest of these brief digital films focuses on what students have to say about the ways in which they use technology at school, at home, or in their everyday lives. Learning the Change/Changing to Learn: Student Voices is a five-minute video in which young people talk honestly and enthusiastically about mobile phones, iPods, gaming, laptops, Facebook and other technological devices and platforms that have become central to how they work, how they learn, and who they are. Learning to Change/Changing to Learn: Student Voices premiered at the Learning and Technology World Forum in January in London.
This release was preceded in the fall of 2008 with Learning to Change/Changing to Learn, which similarly shares the views of an international panel of key educators and thought leaders. Together, their voices document the need for all educational stakeholders to develop contemporary classroom practices that incorporate technology to individualize and maximize student learning.
The first film in this series, Empowering the 21st Century Superintendent highlights five themes and action steps for technology leadership, which emerged from CoSN's extensive conversations with superintendents and from topics that are gaining national—and international—interest among educators, parents, policymakers and the business community. It’s release coincided with CoSN's launch of a new initiative dedicated to helping superintendents, aspiring superintendents and district leadership teams build their knowledge, skills and confidence as effective technology leaders.
At Pearson, we’re proud to work closely with the Consortium for School Networking to showcase the ways education leaders—and the young people they serve—are responding to the remarkable changes taking place inside and outside the classroom. In addition to our ongoing video series, we’re pleased also to have sponsored CoSN's November, 2007, hosting of senior US educators and policymakers in Scandinavia, a fact-finding mission to explore how high performing educational systems around the world are investing in technology to create 21st century learning environments.
