Module 1
Module 1
st
21 CENTURY EDUCATION
WHAT TO EXPECT
1. Define 21st Century Education Insert picture
2. Describe the 21st Century
teacher and the needed
innovative tools for learning
3. Examine the critical attributes of
21st Century education
4. Explain how 21st Century
education concepts can be
integrated in the classroom
5. Draw relevant life lessons and
significant values from the
experience in practicing 21st
Century education
6. Analyze research and its
implications on teaching-
learning process
7. 7. Prepare an evaluation
instrument intended for 21st
Century teaching-learning
PRE-DISCUSSION
Procedures:
1. Students will form two big circles: the inner core and outer core.
2. The inner core will rotate clockwise while the outer core
counterclockwise upon the signal of the teacher. When the teacher
keeps on uttering “carousel…carousel…carousel”, students will also
keep on rotating. When he/she says “Off”, students will stop and face
partners.
3. The teacher will then ask questions and students share their answers
with their partners in a given time.
Questions:
LESSON OUTLINES
This modern society is ushered in by a dramatic technological revolution.
It is an increasingly diverse, globalized and complex media-saturated society.
According to Dr. Douglas Kellner, this technological revolution bears a greater
impact on society than the transition from an oral to print culture.
Education prepares students for life in this world. Amidst emerging social
issues and concerns, there is a need for students to be able to communicate,
function and create change personally, socially, economically and politically at
the local, national and global levels by participating in real-life and real-world
service learning projects.
Schools will go from ‘building’ to ‘nerve centers’, with open walls and are
roofless while connecting teachers, students and the community to the breadth
of knowledge in the world.
Therefore, the 21st century will require knowledge generation, not just
information delivery, and schools will need to create a “culture of inquiry”.
21st Century learning demands a school that excites students for school.
There is a little or no discipline problem because of strong student engagement.
Likewise, parents are informed about positive changes in their children. As a
result, students manifest significant improvement in basic skills of reading,
writing, speaking, listening, researching, scientific explorations, math,
multimedia skills and others.
The 21st Century Curriculum. The twenty-first century curriculum has
critical attributes that are interdisciplinary, project-based and research-driven.
It is connected to local, national and global communities, in which students may
collaborate with people around the world in various projects. The curriculum
also integrates higher-order thinking skills, multiple intelligences, technology
and multimedia, multiple literacies and authentic assessment, including
service-learning (http://edglossary.org.21st-century-skills).
21st Century Skills outcome and the Demands in the Job Market.
The 21st Century skills are a set of abilities that students need to develop to
succeed in the information age. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills lists
three types, namely: (1) Learning Skills which comprise critical thinking,
creative thinking, collaborating, and communicating; (2) Literacy Skills which is
composed of information literacy, media literacy, and technology literacy; (3)
Life Skills that include flexibility, initiative, social skills, productivity and
leadership. These skills have always been important in an information-based
economy.
The 21st Century Learning Implications. 21st Century skills are viewed
relevant to all academic areas and the skills may be taught in a wide variety of
both in-campus and community settings.
Schools need to adapt and develop new ways of teaching and learning
that reflect a changing world. The purpose of schools should be to prepare
students for success after graduation and therefore, schools need to prioritize
the knowledge and skills that will be in the greatest demand, such as those
deemed to be most important by college professors and employers. Hence,
teaching students to perform well in school or pass the test alone is no longer
sufficient.
Time-based Outcome-based
Focus: memorization of discrete Focus: What students Know, Can Do
facts and Are Like after all the details are
forgotten.
Lower order thinking in Bloom’s Higher order thinking skills
Taxonomy, such us knowledge and (metacognition), such as application,
comprehension analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
Textbook-driven Research-driven
Passive learning Active learning
Learners work in isolation and Learners work collaboratively with
confined in the classroom (wall classmates and others around the
classroom). world (global classroom).
Teacher-centered: teacher in Students-centered: teacher is
dispenser of knowledge, information facilitator/coach of students’
and attention. learning.
Little to students freedom Great deal of student freedom.
“Discipline” – No trust between No “discipline problems” – Students
educators and students. Little and teachers have mutual respect
students motivation and relationship as co-learners. High
students’ motivation.
Fragmented curriculum Integrated and Interdisciplinary
curriculum
Grades taken from formal Grades are based on students’
assessment measures entered in performance as evidence of learning
the class record for reporting outcome
purposes
Assessment is for marking purposes Assessment is important aspect of
and placed as part of lesson plan instruction to gauge learning
structure outcome
Low expectations. What students High expectation that students
receive is what they get. succeed in learning to high extent.
Teacher is judge. No one else sees Self, peer and others serve as
student work. Outputs are assessed evaluators of students learning using
using structured metrics. wide range of metrics and authentic
assessments.
Curriculum is irrelevant and Curriculum is connected to students’
meaningless to the students. interests, experiences, talents and
the real world.
Print is the primary vehicle of Performances, projects and multiple
learning and assessment. forms of media are used for learning
and assessment.
Student diversity is ignored. Curriculum and instruction address
student diversity.
Students just follow orders and Students are empowered to lead and
instructions while listening to initiate while creating solutions and
teacher’s lecture. solving problems.
Literacy is the 3 R’s (reading, writing Multiple literacies of the 21st Century
and ‘rithmetic). aligned to living and working in a
globalized new society.
Factory model, based upon the Global model based upon the needs
needs of employers for the Industrial of a globalized high-tech society.
Age of the 19th century
(source: http://www.21stCenturyschools.com/)
The paradigm shift from the 20th to the 21st Century, shows that the
structure and modalities of education have evolved. Students become the
center of teaching-learning process in the 21st Century using wide array of
technological tools to assist them in exploring knowledge and information
needed in surviving the test of time and preparing for future career endeavors.
Assessment has been made varied to address multiple literacy development
in diverse context. Teachers turn to become facilitators rather than lecturers
and dispensers of information. As such, curriculum is designed in a way that it
connects to life in the real world, interconnected with other disciplines and
reshapes the students’ holistic perspectives.
Thus, teachers must be equipped with attributes, knowledge and skills critical
to21stcentury education so that they may be able to integrate them in their teaching.
st
21 Century teachers are characterized as:
As teacher for the 21st Century, no one can escape from the reality that
we are now in a borderless society. It is, therefore, important that that we should
know different technology tools for learning to respond to the needs of 21 st
Century learners’ and the demands of the times. The following are common 21st
Century technology tools.
Education prepares students for life in this world that can make them
communicate, function and create change personally, socially, economically
and politically on local, national and global levels.
There is a drastic change brought by the advent of the 21 st Century
education in the context of a curriculum, classroom environment,
technology, learners and demands of the job market.
21st Century education implies challenges among teachers in the way need
to embrace technological advancement and instructional innovations.
With the paradigm shift from 20th Century to 21st Century education,
transformations and transitions are taking place.
To cope with the demands of 21 st Century education, educational
institutions should address its eight critical attributes.
Teachers must be multiliterate, multispecialist, multiskilled, self-directed,
lifelong learners, flexible, creative problem solver, and critical thinker,
emotionally intelligent and passionate for excellent teaching.
ASSESSMENT/ENRICHMENT
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
INTROSPECTING
Direction: Write 21st Century Education concepts on each ray of the sun.
21st
Century
Education
CURRICULUM APPLICATION
Direction:
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4- ____________________________ 3 - __________________________
2 - ___________________________ 1 - __________________________
(After the teacher has checked the tool, students may utilize the said tool in actual
evaluation of technology integration in the classroom or in the school.)
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