learners+of+tomorow

School of Education, University of Wolverhampton, UK** ** The Collaborator ** The Collaborator-learner A collaborator in a digi- class will look like students sharing new strategies and skills they have developed e.g using NZ maths learning objects to solve problems. The environment created will be one of security in sharing and assessing ideas together. **The Free Agent** This learner makes full use of continuous, open-ended and life-long styles and systems of learning. This is a learner who is: In a digi class students will self manage their learning journey and be able to be reflective and fexible thinkers. They will be able to plan what they want to inquire about and be given plenty of opportunity to seek a wide range of resources. **The Wise Analyser** In a digi class these learners will be given opportunity to inquire using a model which allows for students to research a variety of resources including using web 2.0 tools. **The Creative Synthesiser** For this learner knowledge does not rest on particular ways of seeing the world. This learner: In a digi class students will be exposed to opportunity to be creative in their learning through use of a variety of thinking strategies and elearning opportunities. Students will be able to allow their creativeness to be shown in a supportive learning environment.
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 * negotiates and exchanges ideas
 * uses new technology to support collaborative work (e.g. Hazemi //et al//., 1998)
 * contributes and adds value to cooperative learning processes
 * is a team player
 * flexible, able to keep pace with change, to take advantage of it
 * able too to cope with changing requirements
 * conversant with new technology
 * independent, self-reliant,
 * reflective and critical
 * skilled at the processes of research, testing of validity and the application of findings
 * close to the world of work and opportunities for action research
 * able to argue judgements
 * able to apply and adapt arguments to new contexts.
 * has ‘new ways of seeing’ (Bowden & Marton, 1998, p.278)
 * puts aside ideas that learning is linear and confirms to us that everything is inter-related and complex
 * is able to create, investigate and to seize opportunities for development and change.