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What is the primary focus of 21st Century Curriculum?
What is the primary focus of 21st Century Curriculum?
What is a characteristic of a 21st Century Learner?
What is a characteristic of a 21st Century Learner?
What is a key aspect of 21st Century Pedagogy?
What is a key aspect of 21st Century Pedagogy?
What is an essential skill for 21st Century Learners?
What is an essential skill for 21st Century Learners?
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What is a hallmark of a 21st Century Learning Environment?
What is a hallmark of a 21st Century Learning Environment?
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What is a critical attribute of 21st Century Education?
What is a critical attribute of 21st Century Education?
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What is a characteristic of a 21st century teacher?
What is a characteristic of a 21st century teacher?
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What is a category of 21st century skills that includes critical thinking and problem solving?
What is a category of 21st century skills that includes critical thinking and problem solving?
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What is an example of a new literacy?
What is an example of a new literacy?
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What is multiliteracy?
What is multiliteracy?
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What is critical framing in integrating multiliteracies in the classroom?
What is critical framing in integrating multiliteracies in the classroom?
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What is a characteristic of a 21st century teacher that involves being able to adapt to new situations?
What is a characteristic of a 21st century teacher that involves being able to adapt to new situations?
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What is a category of 21st century skills that includes social and cross-cultural skills?
What is a category of 21st century skills that includes social and cross-cultural skills?
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What is an example of a 21st century skill that involves being able to use and manage money?
What is an example of a 21st century skill that involves being able to use and manage money?
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Study Notes
21st Century Education
- 21st Century Schools focus on project-based curriculum and real-world problems.
- 21st Century Curriculum is interdisciplinary, project-based, and research-driven, integrating: • Higher order thinking skills • Multiple intelligences • Technology and multimedia • Multiple literacies • Authentic assessments • Service learning
21st Century Learning Environment
- Collaborative learning
- Use of technologies and internet systems
- Environmentally friendly, energy-efficient, and green schools
21st Century Pedagogy
- Teachers are digital immigrants and facilitators
- Student-centered learning
- Focus on technology use
- Use of simulations and manipulative works
- Classrooms with television for broadcasts
21st Century Learners
- Students are digital natives
- Learning through experience
- Predominant senses are motion and touch
- Media culture
- Ability to navigate electronic multimedia resources easily
21st Century Skills
- Learning Skills: • Critical Thinking • Creative Thinking • Collaborating and Communicating
- Literacy Skills: • Information Literacy • Media Literacy • Technology Literacy
- Life Skills: • Flexibility • Initiative • Social Skills • Productivity and Leadership
Critical Attributes of 21st Century Education
- Integrated and interdisciplinary
- Optimum use of ICT and multimedia
- Produce global citizens
- Lifelong learning
- Student-centered and project-based
- Relevant, rigorous, and real-world connected
Characteristics of 21st Century Teachers
- Multi-literate (use various technologies)
- Multi-specialist (knowledgeable in various areas/subject)
- Multi-skilled (being skillful)
- Self-directed (knows how to initiate and realize actions)
- Lifelong learner (constantly updated)
- Flexible (able to adapt)
- Creative problem solver (create innovative ideas and effective solutions)
- Critical thinker (encourage students to reflect)
- Has a passion for excellent teaching (has the heart to teach)
- High emotional quotient (motivated to socialize and interact)
21st Century Skill Categories
- 21st Century Skills refer to a broad set of knowledge, skills, work habits, and character traits necessary for today's world
- 21st Century Skills Categories: • Learning and Innovation Skills • Information, Media and Technology Skills • Life and Career Skills
New Literacies, Functional Literacy, and Multiliteracy
- New Literacies: • Multicultural Literacy • Social Literacy • Media Literacy • Financial Literacy • Digital Literacy • Ecological Literacy • Creative Literacy
- Functional Literacy: • Acquisition of verbal, cognitive, and computational skills (3R's) • Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic (basic literacy)
- Multiliteracy: • Ability to understand, interpret, and communicate using various literacy
- Integrating Multiliteracies in the Classroom: • Situated Practice • Overt Instruction • Critical Framing • Transformed Action
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Description
Explore the principles and features of 21st century education, including project-based curriculum, interdisciplinary learning, and technology integration. Discover how 21st century schools and learning environments are designed to foster collaboration, critical thinking, and service learning.
