21st CENTURY EDUCATION

Activity: 3 Words 1 Concept

• Think of three words you can

associate with 21st Century
Education.
• Timeframe: One Minute
• Class Discussion
21st Century Education Contexts
• 21st Century Century Schools
-project-based curriculum for life that would engaged
students in addressing real- world poblems

Schools become borderless

Teacher's role- from being dispensers of information o
becoming facilitators of learning
Learners- adpative to changes

“culture of inquiry”
Implication to teachers

1. Teachers must discover students interest.

2. Teachers mst instill curiosity which is fundamental to
lifelong learning.
3. Teachers must be flexible in how they teach
4. Teachers must excite learners to become more
resourceful so that they will continue to learn outside formal
schools.
21st Century Curriculum
• interdisciplinary
• project-based
• research-driven
• connected to local, national and global communities
(collabrative)
• integrates higher- order thinking skills, multiple
intelligence, technology and multimedia, multiple literacies
and authentic assessment
• The classroom is filled with self-directed students who
worked independently and inter-dependently
• Instruction is differentiated, thematic, project-based and
integrated with skills and competencies
• Learning is connected to previous knowledge, personal
experience, interest and talents.
21st Century Learning Environment
• environmentsl-friendly, energy- efficient and “green”
schools
• An ideal learning environment also considers the kind of
spaces needed by the students and teachers in
conducting investigations and projects by diverse groups
for independent work.
• places for parental involvement
21st Century Pedagogy
• full access to technology
• Various laboratories and learning centers which allow
students' simulation and manipulative works
• classrooms should have televisions to watch broadcast
created by the school and other schools around.
Understanding Century Learners
• “digital natives” (Prensky, 2001)
their predominant sesnses are motion and touch

they learn through experience and learn differently

they take in the world via the filterof computing devices

such as cellphones, hand-held gaming devices, PDAs and
laptiops and computers, TVs and game consoles at home
 21st Century Skills Otcome and the Demands
in the Job Market
• The Partnership for 21st Century Skills
A. Learning skills which comprise of critical thinking,
creative thinking, collaborating and communicating

B. Literacy skills which is composed of information

literacy, media literacy and technology literacy

C. Life skills that includ flexibility, initiative, social skills,

productivity and leadership
 Before 21st Century Education
Time-based
Focus: memorization of discrete facts
Lower order thinking skills in Bloom's
Taxonomy, such as knowledge and
comprehension
textbook-driven
passive learning
learners work in isolation and confined in
the classroom (walled classroom)
Tacher-centered: teacher is dispenser of
knowledge, information and attention
21st Century Education
Outcome-based
Focus: what students know, can do and
are like after all the details are forgotten
Higher ordr thinking skills (metacognition)
such as application, analysis, synthesis
and evaluation
research-driven
active learning
Learners work collaboratively with
classmates and others around the world
(global classroom)
Student-centered: teacher is facilitator/
coach of students learning
 Before 21st Century Education
little to no students freedom
fragmented curriculum
Grades taken from assessment measures
entered in the class record for reporting
purposes
low expectation
Teacher is judge
Curriculum is irrelevant and meaningless
to the students
Print is the primary vehicle of learning and
assessment
Student diversity is ignored
21st Century Education
great del of student freedom
integrated and interdisciplinary curriculum
Grades are based on student's
performance as evience of learning
outcome
high expectation
self, peer and others serve as evaluators
of student learning
Crriculum is connected to student's
interest, experiences and talents
Performances, projects and multiforms of
media are used
Curriculum and instruction address
student diversity.
The Critical Attributes of 21st Century Education

1. Integrated and interdisciplinary

2. Technologies and Multimedia
3. Global Classrooms
4. Creating and Adapting to Constant Personal and social
Change and Life-long Learning
5. Student- Centered
6. 21st Century Skills
7. Project-based and Reserach-driven
8. Relevant, Rigorous and Real-world
Characteristics of a 21st Century Teacher
• multi-literate
• multi-specialist
• multi-skilled
• self-directed
• life-long learner
• flexible
• creative problem-solver
• critical thinker
• has a pssion for excellent teaching
• high emotional quotient
Common 21st century TechnologyTools for Learning
• Affinity groups
groups or communities that unite individuals with
common interests
• Blogs
interactive websites open to the public that can include
web links, photographs and audio and video elements
• E- Portfolio
refers to student's works that are generated, selected,
organized, stored, and revised digitally.