MODULE 1: ➢ Cooperation over competition

21ST CENTURY EDUCATION ➢ Collaborative learning over isolated learning

21ST CENTURY EDUCATION CONTEXTS Ideal learning environment

• With spaces needed in conducting
21ST CENTURY SCHOOLS investigations and projects by diverse groups
• Focus on a project-based curriculum • Has plenty of wall space and other areas for
• Engage students to address real-life prob displaying student work
• It makes a new way in delivering curriculum • Has place where they can meet for discussions

Teachers: TECHNOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY PEDAGOGY

Dispensers of information >>> Facilitators of learning
Information into knowledge, knowledge into wisdom Technologies
• Tools for students to use in creating knowledge
Implications for teachers: for personal and social change
1. Discover student’s interest • 21st century learning recognizes full access to
2. Instill curiosity (for lifelong learning) technology
3. Flexible on how to teach ➢ Must have WiFi access
4. Excite learners to be resourceful ➢ Must have various laboratories and learning
centers
Schools: ➢ Must have televisions
Need to create a “culture of inquiry” • Its for knowledge exploration
Demands a school that excites students for school
Parents are informed about student’s positive changes UNDERSTANDING 21ST CENTURY LEARNERS

Result to students: Digital natives

Improvement in basic skills such as: • Referring to students today (Prensky, 2001)
- Reading • Usually react, random holistic, and non-linear
- Writing • Predominant senses – motion and touch
- Speaking ➢ Learn through experience
- Listening ➢ Learn differently
- Researching
- Scientific explorations Digital Immigrants
- Math • Referring to educators today (Prensky, 2001)
- Multimedia skills • Often reflect, sequential, and linear
• Predominant senses – hearing and seeing
THE 21ST CENTURY CURRICULUM ➢ Tend to intellectualize
• Has critical attributes that are: ➢ Believe learning is constant
➢ Interdisciplinary
➢ Project based Students entire lives have been immersed in the 21st
➢ Research driven century media culture
• Connected to local, national, and global ➢ Computing devices
communities for students to collaborate ➢ Cellular phones
• Curriculum also integrates the ffg: ➢ Gaming devices
➢ Higher order thinking skills ➢ PDAs and laptops
➢ Multiple intelligences ➢ Computers
➢ Technology and multimedia ➢ TVs
➢ Multiple literacies
➢ Authentic assessments – service learning Henry J. Kaiser Survey
• Filled with self-directed students who work • Young people (ages 8-18) spend on E-media and
independently and interdependently average of 6 hrs a day
• Designed with the concept of differentiation • Many are multitasking (Listening to music +
• Learning is not through memorization but chatting)
connected to previous knowledge, personal
experience, interests, talents, and habits Dr. Michael Wesch
• Students know to access and utilize tools but
THE 21ST CENTURY LEARNING ENVIRONMENT they use it for entertainment purposes
• Students should be prepared and assisted to
21st Century Classroom become media literate for:
• Not literal classroom ➢ Researching
• Learning environment where students: ➢ Analyzing
➢ Collaborate with peers ➢ Synthesizing
➢ Exchange insights ➢ Critiquing
➢ Coach and mentor one another ➢ Evaluating
➢ Share talents and skills ➢ Creating

Cooperative learning
• Students work in teams
21ST CENTURY SKILLS OUTCOME AND THE DEMANDS IN A PARADIGM SHIFT FOR 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION
THE JOB MARKET
Before Today
ST
21 Century Skills Time based Outcome based
• Are a set of abilities that students need to Memorization What can do
develop to succeed in the information age. LOTS HOTS
Textbook Research
Three types: Passive Active
1. Learning Skills Isolated learning Collaborative learning
➢ Critical thinking Teacher centered Student centered
➢ Creative thinking Little to no student Great deal of student
➢ Collaborating freedom freedom
➢ Communicating No trust between With trust between
student and teachers student and teachers
2. Literacy Skills Little student motivation High student motivation
➢ Information literacy Fragmented curriculum Interdisciplinary
➢ Media literacy curriculum
➢ Technology literacy Grades from formal Grades from students’
assessment performance
3. Life Skills Assessment for marking Assessment to gauge
➢ Flexibility purposes learning outcome
➢ Leadership Low expectations High expectations
➢ Initiative Teacher is judge Self, peer, and others are
➢ Productivity evaluators
➢ Social skills Curriculum is irrelevant Curriculum is connected
and meaningless to real world
Skills demanded in the job market includes: Print is the primary Performances, projects,
1. Knowing a trade vehicle of learning and media are used
2. Following directions
Student diversity is Address student diversity
3. Getting along with others
ignored
4. Working hard, being professional
Students just follow Students are empowered
5. Efficient
orders and instructions to lead
6. Prompt
Literacy (reading writing, Multiple literacies
7. Honest
arithmetic)
8. Fair
Factory model Global model
To adapt to these jobs, students need to:
1. Think deeply about issues
2. Solve problems creatively THE CRITICAL ATTRIBUTES OF 21ST CENTURY
3. Work in teams EDUCATION
4. Communicate clearly in any media
1. Integrated and Interdisciplinary
5. Learn ever-changing technologies
6. Deal with the influx of information • implies the need to review the curriculum
• create strategies infusing different subjects
To attain this, schools need to embed time-tested
industry-demanded work skills in the curriculum 2. Technologies and multimedia
• with optimum use of ICT and multimedia
• implies a need to acquire and use computers
THE 21ST CENTURY LEARNING IMPLICATIONS and multimedia equipment

Teachers 3. Global classrooms

• should practice cross-disciplinary skills in related • aims to produce global citizens
courses • exposing students to the issues and concerns in
• may design or adopt learning standards that the local, national, and global societies
explicitly describe multi-disciplinary skills that
students should acquire and master 4. Creating or adapting to constant personal and social
change and lifelong learning
Schools • learning takes place anywhere, anytime
• allow students to pursue alternatives regardless of age
- internship • teachers facilitate learning even beyond
- apprenticeship academics
- volunteer experience
• should prioritize the knowledge and skills that 5. Student centered
will be in the greatest demand • focus on learners, addressing needs
• differentiated instruction is relevant
Accrediting organizations and regulatory bodies may - learning styles
require 21st century skills in the curriculum. - interests
- needs and abilities
6. 21st century skills 9. Has a passion for excellent teaching
• skills in becoming productive members of • Possess passion in the teaching profession
society • Students are motivated to learn
• students should develop life and work skills
• teachers should possess these skills first before 10. High Emotional Quotient (EQ)
their students • Have the heart to teach
• Teaching is influential job as it involves
7. Project-Based and Research Driven interaction with human beings
• emphasizes data, information, and evidence-
based decision making COMMON 21ST CENTURY TECHNOLOGY TOOLS FOR
• implies the need for knowledge and skills in LEARNING
research
- self directed activities 1. Affinity groups
- learning projects 2. Blogs
- investigatory projects 3. E-portfolio
- capstones 4. Hypertext
5. Podcasts
8. Relevant, Rigorous and Real World 6. Web 2.0
• It is meaningful as it connects to real life 7. Myspace
experiences of learners 8. Second Life
• Implies the use of current and relevant 9. Semantic Web
information linked to real life situations and 10. Webkinz
contexts 11. Wiki
12. Youtube
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A 21ST CENTURY TEACHER 13. Google Docs
14. Prezi
Teachers must be equipped with attributes, knowledge, 15. Easybib
and skills critical to 21st century education so they may 16. Social media platforms (FB, IG, Edmodo)
be able to integrate them in their teaching 17. Smartboards and audience response systems
18. ReadWriteThink.org
1. Multi-literate 19. WebQuest Page
• Knows how to use various technologies in 20. Literacy Web
teaching
LET SAMPLERS
2. Multi-specialist
• Knows how to teach in other areas Answers:
• Build what they gain in classroom and outside 1. Teachers must be consistent in how they teach
the school 2. Multi-literate
3.
3. Multi-skilled 4. Relevant and Real World
• Cope with the demand for widening learning 5. Manner of response: The teachers tend to
opportunities reflect, while the learners usually react
• Can facilitate and organize groups and activities

4. Self-directed
• Responsible for various aspects of school life
• Knows how to initiate action

5. Lifelong learner
• Embrace that learning never ends
• They must be constantly updated on the latest
information and pedagogic trends

6. Flexible
• Adapt to various learning styles and needs of
the learners
• Facilitate learner-centered teaching

7. Creative problem solver

• Create innovative ideas and effective solutions

8. Critical thinker
• Encourage students to reflect
• Rekindle students to ask questions, reason out,
probe, and establish their own knowledge