21ST CENTURY

EFFECTIVE
EDUCATION
OUTLINE

The 21st Century

Education

Education & The Fourth

Industrial Revolution

Teaching Strategy: Issues

for the 21C Education
21C EDUCATION: UN CONTEXT
There has been a major shit in educational
goals as set forth by the Sustainable
Development Goal #4 by the United Nations.
The focused on global citizenship education
and education for sustainable development.
The shift concerns recognition of the need for
education systems to equip learners with
competencies such as problem-solving,
collaboration, critical thinking, and
communication.
The development of the world economy and
society is at present being strongly influenced
by three phenomena that seem to be
accelerating and that are beyond the control
of any system:

1.  Demographic Pressure

2.  Worldwide interdependence of official and/
or private actions
3.  Scientific and technological progress
Challenge: The progress of medical science has
fortunately made it possible to reduce infant mortality
throughout the world. The progress of medical science
has fortunately made it possible to reduce infant
mortality throughout the world.

Trend: Intergenerational level, it is clear that, for

the poor nations, the burden of providing for these
young people’s food, education and health is
becoming increasingly impossible to bear
Worldwide interdependence of official and/or private actions
Challenge: Interdependence on monetary policies,
commodity markets, competition in the international
markets, scientific and developmental activities,
ecological options, and cultural and political
developments.

Trend: These facets of interdependence bring people

together in confrontation and at the same time in
solidarity, however in the absence of codes firmly
based on custom which would establish a social
contract on a world scale, intensified competition will
remain.
Scientific and Technological Progress

“Forget all the talk

about machines taking
over…What happens in
the future is up to
us.” (Schmidt & Cohen,
2013)
Challenge: Social Cost: Rapid Destruction of the
Natural and Environment; and over-
systematically innovative equipment reduces
number of jobs (Artificial Intelligence)

Trend: Economies and societies have to find

another way to organize the human life-span and
provide another meaning for individual effort.
21C EDUCATION: PHILIPPINE CONTEXT (RA 10533)
10.2. Standards and Principles. The DepEd shall adhere to the
following standards and principles, when appropriate, in
developing the enhanced basic education curriculum:
(a) The curriculum shall be learner-centered, inclusive and
developmentally appropriate;
(b) The curriculum shall be relevant, responsive and research-
based;
(c) The curriculum shall be gender- and culture-sensitive;
(d) The curriculum shall be contextualized and global;
(e) The curriculum shall use pedagogical approaches that are
constructivist, inquiry-based, reflective, collaborative and
integrative;
21C EDUCATION: PHILIPPINE CONTEXT (RA 10533)
(f) The curriculum shall adhere to the principles and framework
of Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE)
which starts from where the learners are and from what they
already know proceeding from the known to the unknown;
instructional materials and capable teachers to implement
the MTB-MLE curriculum shall be available. For this purpose,
MTB-MLE refers to formal or non-formal education in which the
learner’s mother tongue and additional languages are used in
the classroom;
(g) The curriculum shall use the spiral progression approach to
ensure mastery of knowledge and skills after each level; and
21C EDUCATION: PHILIPPINE CONTEXT (RA 10533)
((h) The curriculum shall be flexible enough to enable and
allow schools to localize, indigenize and enhance the same
based on their respective educational and social contexts.
Challenge: The main effort in implementing “K to
12” has been on the curricular changes, with
attention on the new mother tongue-based multi-
lingual education delivery in the elementary
years, the 'spiral' science approach in the junior
secondary, and extension of the basic education
system to Years 11 and 12.
Education System alignment for 21C skills focus on
Assessment.
Trend:

a.  "To keep track of learners’ progress in relation to

learning standards and in the development of
21st century skills;
b.  To promote self-reflection and personal
accountability among students about their own
learning;
c.  To provide bases for the profiling of student
performance on the learning competencies
and standards of the curriculum."
.
EDUCATION AND THE FOURTH
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that

the old is dying and the new cannot be
born; in this interregnum a great variety of
morbid symptoms appear.” Antonio
Gramsci, circa 1930
Challenge: (IR 4.0) is expected to change how we
live, work, and communicate; it is also likely to
change the things we value and the way we
value them in the future. Presently, we can
already see changing business models and
employment trends.

According to The World Economic Forum, an

estimated 65% of kids enrolling in primary
education today will end up working in jobs that
haven’t been created yet.
Trend: Automation and artificial intelligence are
change agents in 4IR that will make certain
groups of employees redundant, replacing them
with new workers with the needed skills or with
machines that do the job cheaper. Gone are the
days where students go to college or university to
study for a degree that will set them up with a
job for life.
TEACHING STRATEGY: ISSUES IN
LEARNING FOR THE 21C

“ we have seen some convergence between

the medium in which a competency
assessment is demonstrated in rich digital
environments, where interactive and detailed
behavioral actions care captured and
processed (UNESCO)
Challenge: (IR 4.0) is expected to change how we
live, work, and communicate; it is also likely to
change the things we value and the way we
value them in the future. Presently, we can
already see changing business models and
employment trends.

According to The World Economic Forum, an

estimated 65% of kids enrolling in primary
education today will end up working in jobs that
haven’t been created yet.
Challenge:

First, the inescapable conclusion of the growth of

knowledge and information, which are the very
stuff of education and learning, and on which
rests the cultural and scientific advancement of
societies.

Second, technological change will continue at an

accelerated rate. The rate of change is unequal
in different regions of the world, but everywhere it
increasingly affects all aspects of life.
Challenge:

Third, demographic changes are leading

everywhere to a redistribution of age groups.

Fourth, countries are becoming increasingly

interdependent.

Fifth, new social and community concerns are

emerging and education will be expected to play
an active role in meeting them
Challenge:

Finally, account has to be taken of changes in

attitudes to the role of public policy and of the
way in which public services are administered and
financed.
Trend:
Among 79
participating
countries, the
Philippines
scored the
l o w e s t i n
r e a d i n g
comprehension
in the 2018
Programme for
International
S t u d e n t
Assessment
( P I S A ) ,
according to
the results
released Dec.
3, 2019. The
Department of
Education
i s s u e d a
statement on
Dec. 4, 2019 in
response to the
results.
“Education is a shared responsibility between us all– governments, schools,
teachers, parents and private actors,”
“Accountability for these responsibilities defines the way teachers teach,
students learn, and governments act. It must be designed with care and
with the principles of equity, inclusion and quality in mind.”
SO WHAT WOULD BE
YOUR TEACHING
STRATEGY?
“Education is a SHARED responsibility
between US ALL– governments, schools,
teachers, parents and private actors,”

“Accountability for these responsibilities

defines the way teachers teach, students
learn, and governments act. It must be
designed with care and with the principles
of equity, inclusion and quality in mind.”
References:
Implementing Rules and Regulation of Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013. Accessed
at https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2013/09/04/irr-republic-act-no-10533/

Education for the twenty-first century: issues and prospects. Accessed at https://
pdfs.semanticscholar.org/dbaf/c9a75f3d6b51029da89dc16ae9bab4426630.pdf?
_ga=2.66757230.134144923.1580969390-556383713.1580969390

Education system alignment for 21st century skills. Accessed at https://www.brookings.edu/

research/education-system-alignment-for-21st-century-skills/

Education system alignment for 21st century skills Focus on assessment. Accessed at
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Education-system-alignment-
for-21st-century-skills-012819.pdf

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0) and what it means for students like you. https://
www.studymalaysia.com/education/top-stories/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-ir-4.0-and-what-it-
means-for-students-like-you

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2019/12/04/1974229/deped-welcomes-pisa-results-
recognizes-gaps-education-quality