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21st Century
Education C
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21st Century Schools

Schools in the 21 century focus on a projet-based
curriculum for life that would engage students in
addressing real-world problems and humanity concerns
and issues.
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21st Century Schools

 Schools will go from 'buildings' to 'nerve centers',
with open walls and are roofless while connecting
teachers, students and the community to the breadth
of knowledge in the world.
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21st Century Schools

Ø Teachers will transform their role from being
dispensers of information to becoming facilitators of
learning and help students translate information into
knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. Therefore, the
21st century will require knowledge generation, not
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just information delivery, and schools will need to

create a "culture of inquiry.
These changes have implications for
teachers:
Ø Teachers must discover student interest by helping them see
what and how they are leaning to prepare them for life in the
real world;
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Ø They must instill curiosity, which is fundamental to lifelong

learning;
Ø They must be flexible in how they teach; and They must
excite learners to become more resourceful so that they will
continue to learn outside formal school.
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.
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The 21st Century Curriculum

The curriculum also integrates higher- order thinking

skills, multiple intelligences, technology and multimedia,
multiple literacies and authentic assessments, including
service- learning.
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The 21st Century Learning

Environment
21st Century classroom is not confined to a literal classroom building
but a learning environment where students collaborate with their peers,
exchange insights, coach and mentor one another and share talents and
skills with other students. Cooperative learning is also apparent, in which
students work in teams because cooperation is given more emphasis than
competition, and collaborative learning more than isolated learning.
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The 21st Century Learning

Environment

In the process of creating a world-class 21st century learning

environment, building new schools and remodeling of present
school facilities can be addressed toward creating
environmentally friendly, energy-efficient, and "green"
schools.
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Ø An ideal learning environment also considers the

kind of spaces needed by students and teachers in
conducting investigations and projects by diverse groups for
independent work.
Ø An ideal learning environment has plenty of wall space and
other areas for displaying student work that includes a place
where the parents and the community can gather to watch
student performances, as well as a place where they can
meet for discussions.
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Technology in the 21st Century

Pedagogy
Ø Technologies are not ends in themselves but these are tools
students use to create knowledge for personal and social
change.

Ø 21st Century learning recognizes full access to technology.

Therefore, a better bandwidth of Wifi access should be
available along areas of the school for the students to access
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Understanding 21st
Century
Today's students Learners
are referred to as "digital natives", while aducators as
their files and supplement their learning inside the classroom.
Various laboratories and learning centers are set up in such a
way that they allow a space needed for students' simulation
and manipulative works.
"digital immigrants (Prensky, 2001). Most likely, digital natives
usually react, are random, holistic and non-linear. Their
predominant senses are motion and touch. They learn through
experience and learn differently. Digital Immigrants often reflect,
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Understanding 21st Century

Learners
are sequential, and linear. Their predominant senses are hearing
and seeing. They tend to intellectualize and believe that learning is
constant (Hawkins and Graham, 1994).
Ø A survey by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation found
that young people (ages 8-18) spend on electronic media an
average of six hours a day. In addition, many are
multitasking, such as listening to music while surfing the Web
or instantmessaging friends while playing a video game.
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Understanding 21st Century

Learners
Ø The preschoolers easily navigate electronic multimedia
resources on games, in which they learn colors, numbers,
letters, spelling, and more complex tasks, such as mixing
basic colors to create new colors, problem-solving activities,
and reading.
Dr. Michael Wesch points out, although today's students
understand how to access and utilize these tools, they use them
only for entertainment purposes. Thus, students should be
prepared and assisted to become media literate as they function
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in an online collaborative research-based environment

with the advent of researching, analyzing, synthesizing,
critiquing, evaluating and creating new knowledge.
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.
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Partnership for 21st Century

Skills lists three types, namely:
• Learning Skills which comprise critical thinking, creative
thinking, collaborating, and communicating; •Literacy Skills
which is composed of information literacy, media literacy, and
technology literacy; and
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•Life Skills that include flexibility, initiative, social

skills, productivity and leadership. These skills have
always been important in an information-based economy.
The 21 Century Learning Implications

Teachers should practice teaching cross-disciplinary

skills in related courses, such as integrating research
methods in various disciplines; articulating technical
scientific concepts in verbal written, and graphic forms;
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presenting laboratory reports to a pool of

specialists, or use emerging technologies,
software programs and multimedia applications as an
extension of an assigned project.
The 21 Century Learning Implications
Ø Schools and teachers should use a variety of applied
skills, multiple technologies, and new ways of analyzing
and processing information, while also taking initiative,
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thinking creatively, planning out the process, and

working collaboratively in teams with other students.
Ø Schools may allow students to pursue alternatives, in
which students can earn academic merits and satisfy
graduation requirements by completing an internship,
apprenticeship or volunteer experience.
In today's world, information and knowledge are continuously
increasing at a certain rate that no one can learn everything
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about every subject. What may appear true today could be

proven to be false tomorrow and the jobs that students will get
after they graduate may not yet exist. For this reason, 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.
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A Paradigm Shift
for 21st Century
Education
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Before 21stCentury
21 Century Education
Education
Time-based Outcome-based
Focus: what students Know, Can Do and Are
Focus: memorization of discrete facts
Like after all the details are forgotten.
Lower order thinking skills in Bloom's Higher order thinking skills (metacog- nition),
Taxonomy. such as application, analysis, synthesis, and
such as knowledge and comprehension. evaluation
Textbook-driven Research-driven
Passive learning Active learning
Learners work in isolation and confined in the Learners work collaboratively with classmates
classroom (walled classroom). and others around the world (global classroom).
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Teacher-centered: teacher is dispenser of Student-centered: teacher is facilitator/ coach of

knowledge, information and attention. students' learning.

Little to no student freedom. Great deal of student freedom.

No "discipline problems" - Students and teachers have
Discipline problems-No trust between educators and
mutual respect and relationship as co-learners. High
students. Little student motivation.
student motivation.
Fragmented curriculum Integrated and Interdisciplinary curriculum
Grades taken from formal assessment measures entered Grades are based on students' perfor- mance as
in the class record for reporting purposes. evidence of learning outcome
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Assessment is for marking purposes and placed as part Assessment is important aspect ofinstruction to gauge
of lesson plan structure. learning outcome
Low expectations. What students receive is what they High expectations that students succeed in learning to
get. high extent.
Teacher is judge. No one else sees student work. Self, peer and others serve as evaluators of student
Outputs are assessed using structured metrics. learning using wide range of metrics and authentic
assessments.
Curriculum is irrelevant and meaningless to the Curriculum is connected to students' interests,
students. experiences, talents and the real world.
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Print is the primary vehicle of learning and Performances, projects and multiple forms of media
assessment. are used for learning and assessment.
Student diversity is ignored. Curriculum and instruction address student diversity.
Students just follow orders and instructions while Students are empowered to lead and initiate while
listening to teacher's lecture. creating solutions and solving problems.
Multiple literacies of the 21st Century aligned to living
The Critical Attributes of 21st
Literacy is the 3 R's (reading, writing and 'rithmetic).
and working in a globalized new society.

Century
Factory model, based upon the needs of employers for
the
Global model based upon the needs of a globalized
hightech society.
Industrial Age of the 19th century.
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Integrated and Interdisciplinary

Ø Education in the 21st Century is characterized by

interfacing various disciplines in an integrated manner
rather than compartmentalizing its subsequent parts.
Technologies and Multimedia

Ø Education in the 21st Century makes optimum use of

available Information and Communication Technology
(ICT), as well as multimedia to improve the teaching and
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learning process, including online applications

and technology platforms.
Global Classrooms

Ø Education in the 21st Century aims to produce global

citizens by exposing students to the issues and concerns
in the local, national and global societies.
Creating/Adapting to Constant Personal and Social
Change and Lifelong
Learning
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Ø Education in the 21st Century subscribes to the

belief that learning does not end within the four
walls of the classroom.
Instead, it can take place anywhere, anytime regardless of age.
Student-Centered

Ø Education in the 21st Century is focused on students as

learners while addressing their needs.
21st Century Skills
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Ø Education in the 21st Century demonstrates the

skills needed in becoming productiv members s
of society. Beyond learning the basic skills of reading,
meing and numeracy, students should also develop life
and work skills in 21 Century communities, such as
critical and creative thinking, problem-solving and
decision-making and ICT literacy and skills.
Project-Based and Research-Driven
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Ø 21st Century education emphasizes data,

information and evidence-based decision-
making through student activities that encourage active
learning.
Relevant, Rigorous and Real World

Ø Education in the 21 Century is meaningful as it connects

to real-life experiences of learners.
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The Characteristics of a 21st

Cebtury Teache
r
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Multi-literate
Ø Teachers know how to use various technologies in
teaching.

Multi-specialist

Ø Teachers are not only knowledgeable in the course

subject they teach but also in other areas so that they can
help the learner build up what they gain in the classroom
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and outside the school and make sense of what

was learned.
Multi-skilled
Ø Teachers cope with the demand for widening learning
opportunities by being skillful not just in teaching but
also in facilitating and organizing groups and activities.

Self-directed
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Ø Teachers are responsible for various aspects of

school life and know how to initiate action to
realize the learning goals of the students and the
educational goals of the country, at large.
Lifelong learner Teachers embrace the ideal that
learning never ends. Therefore, teachers must be constantly
updated on the latest information related to their subject and
pedagogic trends.

Flexible
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Ø Teachers are able to adapt to various learning

styles and needs of the learners. They can
facilitate learner-centered teaching with flexibility using
alternative modes of delivery.
Creative problem solver
Ø Teachers create innovative ideas and effective solutions
to the arising problems in the field, be it in the classroom,
in the school or the profession as a whole.

Critical thinker
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Ø Teachers are critical thinkers as they encourage

students to reflect on what they have learned,
and rekindle in them the desire to ask questions, reason
out, probe, and establish their own knowledge and belief.
Has a passion for excellent teaching
Ø Teachers possess passion in the teaching profession to
ensure that students are motivated to learn under their
guidance and care.

High Emotional Quotient (EQ)

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Ø Teachers do not just have the head but also the heart to
teach.
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Common 21st Century Technology Tools

for Learning
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Affinity Groups
Ø These are groups or communities that unite individuals
with common interests. Electronic spaces extend the
range of possibilities for such groups.
Blogs
Ø Web logs or blogs" are interactive websites, often oper to
the public that can include Web links, photographs and
audin and video elements.
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E-portfolio
Ø It refers to student's works that generated selected,
organized, stored and revised digitally.

Hypertext
Ø These are electronic texts that provide multiple links and
allow users to trace ideas in immediate and idiosyncratic
directions.
Podcasts
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Web
2.0
Ø These are digitalized audio files that are stored on the
Internet and downloaded to listeners' computers or most
likely to MP3 players. The term "podcast" comes from
iPod, the popular MP3 player.
Ø This refers to a second generation of Web-based
communities that demonstrate the participatory literacies
that students need for the 21st-century.
Myspace
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Ø It is a social networking website that offers an

interactive user-submitted network of friends,
personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and
videos internationally.
Second Life

Ø It is an Internet-based 3-D virtual world that uses avatars

to explore, socialize, participate in individual or group
activities, create and trade items and services.
Semantic Web
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Ø It is an extension of the current Web that puts

data into a common format so that instead of
humans working with individual search engines to locate
information, the search engines themselves feed into a
single mechanism that provides this searching on its own.
Webkinz
Ø It is an Internet simulation wherein children learn pet
care and other skills.
Wiki
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Ø It refers to software that fosters collaboration

and communication online. Wikis enable
students to create, comment upon, and revise
collaborative projects. One of the most prominent is
Wikipedia.
Youtube
Ø It is a popular website for video sharing where users can
upload, view and share video footage, including movie
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clips, TV clips, and music videos, even student-produced

videos.
Google Docs
Ø It allows students to collaborate with other people and the
document materials that need to be compiled. processed,
transacted and analyzed.
Ø It allows individuals to use pre-made, creative
presentation templates.
Easybib
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Prez Ø It allows individuals to generate citations in any

i given format. Social media platforms

Ø These are means to communicate and share ideas among

users.
Smartboards and audience response systems
Ø These are replacement for traditional chalkboards or
whiteboards in classrooms.
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ReadWrite Think.org.
Ø It is a repository of standards-based literacy lessons that
offer teachers instructional ideas for Internet integration.
WebQuest Page
Ø It provides Webquests on an array of topics across
content areas with a template for creating one's own.

Literacy Web
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Ø It is an online portal that includes a large number of new

literacy's resources for new literacies for teachers.
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