21st Century Education PDF

21st Century Skills Learning Skills Literacy Skills Life Skills Critical thinking, Media Literacy, Flexibility, creative thinking, Information Literacy, Leadership, Initiative, collaborating, and and Technology Productivity, and communicating...

21st Century Skills Learning Skills Literacy Skills Life Skills Critical thinking, Media Literacy, Flexibility, creative thinking, Information Literacy, Leadership, Initiative, collaborating, and and Technology Productivity, and communicating Literacy Social Skills 1 Skills demanded in the job market include; Knowing a trade Getting along with others Following directions Working hard Being Prompt professional Efficient Honest 2 A Paradigm Shift for 21st Century Education Time-Based Outcome-based Focus: What students can Focus: Memorization of know, can do and are like discrete facts after all the details are forgotten. Lower Order Thinking Skills Higher Order Thinking Skills Passive Learning Active Learning Textbook-driven Research-driven 3 A Paradigm Shift for 21st Century Education Walled Classroom Global Classroom Teacher-centered Student-centered Little to no student Great deal of student freedom freedom Discipline problems- Little No “discipline problems”- Student Motivation High Student Motivation Integrated and Fragmented Curriculum interdisciplinary curriculum 4 A Paradigm Shift for 21st Century Education Assessment is for marking Assessment is an important purposes and placed as a aspect of instruction to lesson plan structure gauge learning outcome Teacher-centered Student-centered Low Expectations High Expectations Self, peer and others serve Teacher is judge as judge Curriculum is irrelevant and Curriculum is meaningless contextualized 5 A Paradigm Shift for 21st Century Education Performances, projects and Print is the primary vehicle multiple media are used for of learning and assessment learning and assessment Student diversity is Student diversity is ignored addressed Literacy is the 3r’s Multiple literacies Factory model, based upon Global model based upon the needs of employers for the needs of a globalized the Industrial Age of the high-tech society 19th Century 6  The Critical Attributes of the 21 There st Century is a need for a 21st century teacher to develop essential knowledge, skills, and values in order to cope with these changes and address students’ need 7 8 Integrated and Interdisciplinary Education in the 21st There is a need to century is review the characterized by curriculum and interfacing various create strategies disciplines in an infusing different integrated manner subjects toward rather than enhancing the compartmentalizin learning g its subsequent experiences of the parts. students. 9 Technologies and Multimedia Education in the 21st Century makes It implies a need to optimum use of acquire and use available Information computers and and Communication multimedia Technology (ICT), as equipment and well as multimedia to design a technology improve the teaching and learning process, plan to enhance including online learning at its best. applications and technology platforms. 10  Global Classrooms This critical attribute implies the need to Education in the 21st include current Century aims to global produce global issues/concerns, citizens by exposing such as peace and students to the respect for cultural issues and concerns diversity, climate in the local, national change, and global and global societies warming in classroom discussions. 11 Creating/Adapting to Constant Personal and Social Change and Lifelong Learning Therefore, it should not Education in the 21st end with requirement Century subscribes compliance and to the belief that passing the exams, learning does not but also for end within the four transferring and walls of the applying knowledge to a new context or classroom. real-life situations 12  Student-Centered Differentiated instruction is relevant in the 21st Century classrooms, Education in the 21st where diversity factors Century on and issues are taken students as into account and learners while addressed when addressing their planning and delivering instruction, needs. including their learning styles, interests, needs, and abilities. 13  21st Century Skills Students should develop life and work skills in 21st Therefore, it implies Century that teachers communities, such should possess as critical and these skills first creative thinking, before their problem-solving and students. decision-making, and ICT literacy and skills. 14 Project-Based and Research Driven This implies the need 21st Century for knowledge and education skills in research, emphasizes data, such as self- information and directed activities, evidence-based learning projects decision-making investigatory through student projects, activities that capstones, and encourage active other research- learning. based output. 15  Relevant, Rigorous and Real-World This implies the need for knowledge and Education in the 21st skills in research, Century is such as self- meaningful as it directed activities, connects to the learning projects real-life investigatory experiences of projects, learners. capstones, and other research- based output. 16  Multi- Multi-literate Multi-skilled specialist Coping with Not focusing demand and Knowing how on one being skillful not to use various subject but only in teaching technologies also on other but also in organizing areas activities 17  Lifelong Self-directed Flexibility learner Responsible and how to Adaptable to Embracing the initiate learning idea that actions in needs and learning realizing the styles of the never ends learning goals learners 18  Creative Critical Passion for problem thinker Teaching solver Creating Encouraging Passion in the innovative students to teaching ideas and reflect on their profession to effective learning and to ensure that solutions to rekindle their students are the arising curiosity motivated field 19  Creative Lifelong High Emotional problem Quotient learner solver Creating Encouraging innovative students to Teachers not ideas and reflect on their only with a effective learning and to brain but with solutions to rekindle their a heart the arising curiosity field 20