21

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CENTURY
EDUCATION
o Define 21st Century Education
o Describe the 21st century teacher and the needed innovative tools for
learning
o Examine the critical attributes of the 21 st century education
o Explain how 21st Century education concepts can be integrated in the
classroom
o Draw relevant life lessons and significant values from the experience
in practicing 21st Century education
Concept Exploration

• This modern society is ushered in by a dramatic technological

revolution.
increasingly diverse
Globalized
complex media-saturated
• Dr. Douglas Kellner
“technological revolution bears a greater impact on society than
the transition from an oral to print culture”.
Concept Exploration

• Education prepares students for life in this world.

Communicate
Function and create change
 Participating in real life and real-world service learning
projects.
• Emerging technologies and resulting globalization also provides
unlimited possibilities for exciting discoveries and developments.
21st Century Education Contexts
• 21st Century Schools
project-based curriculum
innovation in education, from textbook-driven, teacher-centered,
paper-and-pencil schooling into a better understanding of the
concept of knowledge and a new definition of the educated person
Schools will go from ‘buildings” to nerve centers’.
Teachers will transform their role from being dispensers of
information to becoming facilitators of learning.
21st century will require knowledge generation, not just
information delivery, and schools will need to create a “culture of
inquiry”.
21st Century Education Contexts
• 21st Century Schools
 Learners will become adaptive to changes.

Implication for Teachers:

o Teacher must discover student interest by helping them see what and
how they are learning to prepare them for life in the real world;
o They must instill curiosity, which is fundamental to lifelong learning;
o They must be flexible in how they teach; and
o They must excite learners to become more resourceful so that they
will continue to learn outside formal school.
The 21st Century Curriculum
• has critical attributes that are interdisciplinary, project-based and
research-driven.
• It is connected to local, national and global communities.
• integrates higher-order thinking skills, multiple intelligences,
technology and multimedia, multiple literacies and authentic
assessments, including service learning (
http://edglossary.org/21st-century-skills).
• The curriculum and instruction are designed imbued with concept of
differentiation.
The 21st Century Curriculum
• instructions turn to be more thematic, project-based and integrated
with skills and competencies purely not confined within themselves,
but are explored through research and concept application in projects
and outputs (http://edglossary.org/21st-century-skills).
The 21st Century Learning Environment
• 21st Century classroom
Students collaborate with their peers and exchange insights, coach
and mentor one another and share talents and skills with other
students.
Learning environments today need to embrace the variety of
places, ideas, and people that the modern world demands and
reflect a flexibility of space, time, people, and technology.
Technology in the 21st Century Pedagogy
• Technologies are not ends in themselves but these are tools students
use to create knowledge for personal and social change.
• 21st Century learning recognizes full access to technology.
Understanding 21st Century Learners.

• students are referred to as “digital natives”

• Educators as “digital immigrants” (Prensky,

2001)
21st Century Skills Outcome and the Demands in the Job Market

• 21st Century skills are set of abilities that students need to develop to
succeed in the information age.
• Partnership 21st Century Skills
 Learning Skills which comprises critical thinking, creative thinking,
collaborating, and communicating;
 Literacy Skills which is composed of information literacy, media literacy,
and technology literacy; and
 Life Skills that include flexibility, initiative, social skills, productivity
and leadership.
 According to Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), various industries
look for employees who can think critically, solve problems creatively,
innovative, collaborate and communicate.
Learning Implications of 21st Century Skills
• Teachers should practice teaching cross-disciplinary skills in related
courses.
• Accrediting organizations and regulatory bodies may require 21st
century skills in the curriculum.
• Schools and teachers should use a variety of applied skills, multiple
technologies, and new ways of analyzing and processing information,
while also taking initiative, thinking creatively, planning out the
process, and working collaboratively in teams with other students.
• Schools may allow students to pursue alternatives which students can
earn academic merits and satisfy graduation requirements by
completing internship, apprenticeship or volunteer experience.
Learning Implications of 21st Century Skills
• Students need to be taught how to process, analyze and use the
information and they need adaptable skills that they can apply in all
facets of life.
• Schools need to adapt and develop new ways of teaching and learning
that reflect a changing world.
 Before 21st Century Education 21st Century education
Time-based Outcome-based
Focus: memorization of discrete facts Focus: what students know, Can Do and
Are Like after all the details are forgotten.

Lower order thinking skills in Bloom’s Higher order thinking skills

Taxonomy, such as knowledge and (metacognition), such as application,
comprehension analysis, synthesis and evaluation
Passive learning Active learning
Textbook-driven Research-driven
Learners work in isolation and confined in Learners work collaboratively with
the classroom (walled classroom). classmates and others around the world
(global classroom)
 Before 21st Century Education 21st Century education
Techer-centered: teacher is dispenser of Student-centered: teacher is
knowledge, information and attention. facilitator/coach of students’ learning.
Little to no student freedom Great deal of student freedom
“Discipline problem” – No trust between No “discipline problems” – Students and
educators and students. Little student teachers have mutual respect and
motivation. relationship as co-learners. High student
motivation.
Fragmented curriculum Integrated and Interdisciplinary
curriculum
Grades taken from formal assessment Grades are based on students’
measures entered in the class record for performance as evidence of learning
reporting purposes outcome
 Before 21st Century Education 21st Century education
Assessment is for making purposes and Assessment is important aspect of
placed as part of lesson plan structure instruction to gauge learning outcome
Low expectations. What students receive High expectations that students succeed in
is what they get. learning to high extent.
Teacher is judge. No one else sees student Self, peer and others serve as evaluators of
work. Outputs are assessed using student learning using wide range of
structured metrics. metrics and authentic assessments.

Curriculum is irrelevant and meaningless Curriculum is connected to students’

to the students. interests, experiences, talents and the real
world.
Print is the primary vehicle of learning Performances, projects and multiple forms
and assessment. of media are used for learning and
assessment.
 Before 21st Century Education 21st Century education
Student diversity is ignored. Curriculum and instruction address
student diversity.
Student just follow orders and instructions Students are empowered to lead and
while listening to a teacher’s lecture. initiate while creating solutions and
solving problems.
Literacy is the 3 R’s (reading, writing and Multiple literacies of the 21st century
‘rithmetic). aligned to living and working in a
globalized new society.
Factory model, based upon the needs of Global model based upon the needs of a
employers for the industrial Age of the globalized high-tech society
19th century
Student diversity is ignored. Curriculum and instruction address
student diversity.
The Characteristics of a
1. Multi-Literate
21st Century Teacher
2. Multi-Specialist
3. Multiskilled
4. Self-directed
5. Lifelong learner
6. Flexible
7. Creative problem solver
8. Critical thinker
9. Has a passion for excellent
teaching
10. High Emotional Qoutient