21st Century Learning Plans

Learning Plans in the Context of the 21st Century

• The K to 12 Curriculum of the Department of Education enhances the Teacher Education Curriculum with considerations for 21st-century classrooms.
• Features of the curriculum include technologies integrated for teaching and learning across various learning levels and specializations.
• Learners need a curriculum that is relevant to their lives
• Students commonly ask questions like “Do I need to know these to live a meaningful life?”, “How will I use this lesson in the actual workplace?”, etc.

Salient Features of the Curriculum

• Strengthening Early Childhood Education (Universal Kindergarten) provides every Filipino child access to early childhood education via readily available technological tools.
• Technology use is evident in teaching kindergarten pupils alphabets, numbers, shapes, and colors through games and dances.
• Contextualization and enhancement involve learners valuing a curriculum relevant to their lives and personal well-being.
• Effective technology Integration should focus on collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving to thrive in today's world.
• Building proficiency promotes a child's dominant language using technological tools in the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE).
• The use of Mother Tongue in materials and instructions leads to retention of ethnic identity, culture, heritage, and values.
• Integrated and Seamless Learning (Spiral Progression) uses TPACK (Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge).
• Rediscovering previously presented concepts will be aided by technology to strengthen retention and mastery.
• The K to 12 Curriculum ensures college readiness by aligning core and applied courses to College Readiness Standards (CRS) and the General Education (GE) Curriculum.
• Development of appropriate Specialization Subjects like Technology for Teaching and Learning is needed.
• Nurturing a holistically developed Filipino equips graduates with information, media, technology, learning, innovation, communication, and life/career skills.
• This is achieved through proper curriculum implementation and teachers' facilitation supported by technological support.
• Development of Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs) by the Department of Education addresses educational challenges, including a shortened school year from the pandemic.
• Limited face-to-face interaction between teachers and learners is a serious problem.
• The primary criterion for selecting MELCs was endurance, so that learning competency remains with learners for a duration even after the end of study or test.
• Examples include research skills, reading comprehension, and hypothesis testing.
• Necessary actions include retaining, merging, dropping, or rephrasing of MELCs.

ICT-Pedagogy Integration in Learning Plans

• Teaching is a profession has been a challenging since knowledge has been expanding and essential skills have been increasing and changing.
• Engaging technology in teaching is supported by the principles and philosophies.

Integrating Technology in Instruction

• John Pisapia (1994) integrates technology with teaching by introducing it with learning technologies to reinforce, supplement, and extend skills.
• ISTE: Effective integration of technology is achieved when students are able to select technologies to help them obtain, analyse and synthesize the information in a timely manner,
• Margret Lloyd: ICT integration encompasses an integral part of broader curriculum reforms which include pedagogical considerations.
• Integrating Information and Communication (ICT) is a growing area that has attracted many educators' efforts in recent years.
• Bernard Bahati (2010) integrates ICT in teaching and learning at both pedagogical and technological levels with emphasis on pedagogy.
• UNESCO (2005) integrates ICT by realizing how to organize the classroom to structure the learning tasks to respond naturally.
• Moursund: ICT includes all the full range of computer hardware, computer software, and telecom facilities.
• Tialo (2009): ICT is a diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate, create, disseminate, store, and manage information.
• UNESCO 2020: ICT includes technology tools and resources used to transmit, store, share or exchange information.
• Ratheeswari (2018): ICT is important in the classroom for students to learn and apply the required 21st century skill.
• Laurillard 2002: The teaching-learning process poses challenges to allow learners to master lessons and skills and support learning activities in the classrooms.
• Lautrillards Conversational Framework LCF is relevant in the field of language education that requires appropriate use of various technologies.
• The 3 fundamental elements of ICT integration by Wang include: Pedagogy social interaction and technology.
• Before the pandemic, teachers had been using the 4As format but were compelled to use IDEA in the new normal.
• IDEA (Introduction - the I Phase, Development – the D Phase, Engagement – the E Phase, and Assimilation – the A Phase) format is an abridged and refined format.

Learning Activities to Develop Critical and Creative thinking

• A holistic approach to learning involves critical and creative thinking skills
• Numerous breakthroughs in science and art resulted from combining creative and critical thinking skills.
• Critical thinking is the active process of gathering and analyzing information in order to form an opinion or judgement
• Critical Thinking skills include analysis, communication, creativity, open-mindedness, and problem-solving.

Characteristics of a Critical thinker

• Open minded
• Honest
• Courage and Passion
• Independent Opinions
• Aware
• Welcome Criticism

Ways to Develop critical Thinkers

• Questioning enhances critical thinking skills by elaborating open-ended questions.
• Student Led Discussions promote learning and problem solving.
• Collaboration through discussions promotes learning.
• Brainstorming for Problem-Based Learning to enhance critical thinking and asking questions.

Steps on implementing storyboard

• Use context
• Implement creative thinking
• Understanding

Types of Innovated Thinking

• Aesthetic Thinking
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Lateral Thinking
• Inspirational Thinking
• Aesthetic Thinking
• Benefits of creative thinking includes good productivity and improved problem solving.
• There are multiple suggestions to improve your creativity. This includes meeting new people and practicing creative exercises.

Critical thinking vs. Creative thinking

• Critical thinking involves analyzing and developing ideas, refining them and making choices.
• Creative thinking involves communicating those connections with other ideas you have thought of.
• The 6 thinking hats help people in various ways: managing the thinking process, showing creativity, and expressing new concepts.

Promoting Digital Citizenship

• Digital Citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.

The 9 Elements of Digital Citizenship

• Digital Access: Full electronic participation
• Digital Commerce: Electronic buying and selling of goods.
• Digital Communication: Electronic exchange of information.
• Digital Literacy: Process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology.
• Digital Etiquette: The recognition of appropriate behavior.
• Digital Law: Electronic responsibility for actions and deeds.
• Digital Rights and Responsibilities: Everyone is extended free internet privileges
• Digital Health and Wellness: The physical and psychological integrity in a digital technology
• Digital security self-protection: Electronic protection to guarantee safety in the digital and virtual realms