21st Century Education Module 1

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