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Module 1 21ST Century Education
Module 1 21ST Century Education
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BUILDING
and
ENHANCING
NEW LITERACIES
ACROSS THE
CURRICULUM
MODULE
ST
121 CENTURY EDUCATION
Learning Outcomes: At the end of the lesson, the students shall be able to:
ACTIVITY
Answer the following questions
1. What is your understanding of 21st century learning?
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2. What can you say about 21st century learners?
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3. Are you in favor of integrating technology in the teaching-learning process?
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ANALYSIS
Answer the question that supports your answer in the above activity.
1. What is the implication of technology for the 21st century education teachers and
learners?
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CONCEPT EXPLORATION
21st Century Schools. Schools in the 21st century focus on a project-based curriculum
for life that would engage students in addressing real-World problems and humanity concerns
and issues.
This has become an innovation in education. from textbook driven, teacher-centered,
paper-and-pencil schooling into a better understanding of the concept of knowledge and a new
definition of the educated person. Therefore, it makes a new way of designing and delivering
the curriculum.
Schools will go from ‘buildings’ to ‘nerve centers”, with open walls and are roofless
while connecting teachers, students and the community to the breadth of knowledge in the
world.
Teachers will transform their role from being dispensers of information to becoming
facilitators of learning and help students translate information into knowledge and knowledge
into wisdom.
Therefore, the 21st century will require knowledge generation, not just information
delivery, and schools will need to create a “culture of inquiry”
Learners will become adaptive to changes. In the past, learners spent a required
amount of time in respective courses, received passing grades and graduated. Today, learners
are viewed in a new context.
These changes have implications for teachers: (1) Teachers must discover student
interest by helping them see what and how they are learning to prepare them for life in the real
world; (2) They must instill curiosity, which is fundamental to lifelong learning; (3) They
must be flexible in how they teach; and (4) They must excite learners to become more
resourceful so that they will continue to learn outside' formal school.
21stCentury learning demands a school that excites students for' school. There is a little
or no discipline problem because of strong student engagement. Likewise, parents are
informed about positive changes in their children. As a result, students manifest significant
improvement in basic skills of reading, writing, speaking, listening, researching, scientific
explorations, math, multimedia skills and others.
The classroom is filled with self-directed students, who work independently and
interdependently. The curriculum and instruction are designed imbued with the concept of
differentiation. Thus, instead of focusing on textbook-driven or fragmented instruction,
instruction turns to be more thematic, project-based and integrated with skills and
competencies purely not confined within themselves, but are explored through research and
concept application in projects and outputs (http://edglossary org/21st-century-skills).
Learning is not confined through memorization .3, met, and figures alone but rather is
connected to previous knowledge, personal experience, interests, talents and habits.
21st Century Skills Outcome and the Demands in the Job Market.
The 21st Century skills are a set of abilities that students need to develop to succeed in
the information age. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills lists three types, namely: (1)
Learning Skills which comprise critical thinking, creative thinking, collaborating, and
communicating; (2) Literacy Skills which is composed of information literacy, media literacy,
and technology literacy; and (3) Life Skills that include flexibility, initiative, social skills,
productivity and leadership. These skills have always been important in an information-based
economy.
Likewise, skills demanded in the job market . More so, to adapt to these jobs in this
information age, students need to think deeply about issues, solve problems creatively, work
in teams, communicate clearly in many media, learn ever-changing technologies and deal
with the influx of information. Amidst rapid changes in the world, industry requires students
to be flexible, take the initiative, low when necessary. and create something now and useful.
According to Partnership for 21st Century skills (P21), various industries look for
employees who can think critically, solve problems, creatively, innovate, collaborate and
communicate. Therefore, for a perfect match between academe and industry demands, schools
need to embed time-tested industry-demanded work skills in the curriculum
(http://thoughtfullearning.com/resources/what-are-21st-century-skills).
Schools and teachers should use a variety of applied skills, multiple technologies, and
new ways of analyzing and processing information, while also taking initiative, thinking
creatively, planning out the process, and working collaboratively in teams with other students.
More so, schools may allow students to pursue alternatives, in which students can earn
academic merits and satisfy graduation requirements by completing an internship,
apprenticeship or volunteer experience. It is in this manner that students can practice a variety
of practical, career-based, work-related skills and values while equally completing the
academic coursework and meeting the same learning standards required of students.
Schools need to adapt and develop new ways of teaching and learning that reflect a
changing world. The purpose of school should be to prepare students for success after
graduation and therefore, schools need to prioritize the knowledge and skills that will be in the
greatest demand, such as those deemed to be most important by college professors and
employers. Hence, teaching students to perform well in school or pass the test alone is no
longer sufficient.
Henceforth, teachers must realize and students must understand that no one can move
toward a vision of the future unless he/she understands the socio-historical context of where
they are now, what events led them to be where they are, how this can inform development of
a vision for the future and how they want to get there. Thus, a clear articulation of the purpose
of education for the 21st century is the place to begin (http://thoughtfullearning.com/
resources/what-are-21st-century-skills)
2. Blogs. Web logs or “blogs” are interactive websites, often open to the public that can
include Web links, photographs and audio and video elements.
3. E-portfolio. It refers to student’s works that are generated. selected, organized, stored and
revised digitally. Often, electronic portfolios are accessible to multiple audiences and can be
moved from one site to another easily. it can document the process of learning, promote
integrative thinking, display final work, and/or provide a space for reflective learning.
4. Hypertext. These are electronic texts that provide multiple links and allow users to trace
ideas in, immediate and idiosyncratic directions. Hypermedia adds sound, video, animation,
and/or virtual reality environments to the user’s choices.
5. Podcasts. These are digitalized audio files that are stored on the Internet and downloaded to
listeners’ computers or most likely to MP3 players. The term “podcast” comes from iPod, the
popular MP3 player.
6. Web 2.0. This refers to a second generation of Web-based communities. that demonstrate
the participatory literacies that students need for-the 21st-century.
7. Myspace (http://www.Myspace.com). It is a social networking website that offers an
interactive user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music
and videos internationally. Students can rate professors, discuss books, and connect with high
school and college classmates here.
9. Semantic Web. It is an extension of the current Web that puts data into a common format so
that instead of humans working with individual search engines (e.g., Google, Ask Jeeves) to
locate information, the search engines themselves feed into a single mechanism that provides
this searching on its own. Sometimes called Web 3.0, this technology enables integration of
virtually all kinds of information for more effecient and comprehensive retrieval.
11. Wiki. It refers to software that fosters collaboration and communication online. Wikis
enable students to create. comment upon, and revise collaborative projects. One of the most
prominent is Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org), an online multilingual free-content
encyclopedia, which has 7.9 million articles in 253 languages.
12. Youtube (http://www.Youtube.com). It is a popular website for video sharing where users
can upload, view and share video footage, including movie clips, TV clips. and music videos,
even student-produced videos.
13. Google Docs. It allows students to collaborate with other people and the document
materials that need to be compiled, processed, transacted and analyzed.
format.
16. Social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Edmodo, Schoology, lnstagram, etc.). These
are means to communicate and share ideas among users.
17. Smartboards and audience response systems. These are replacement for traditional
chalkboards or Whiteboards in classrooms.
20. Literacy Web (http://www.literacy.uconn.edu). It is 'an online portal that includes a large
number of new literacy’s resources for new literacies for teachers.
(http://cnets.iste.org/teachers/glossary html#t)
APPLICATION. RESEARCH ANALYSIS AND IMPLICATION
Direction: Analyze the following research abstract and cite its implication to teaching
learning. You may download the full paper of this research on the website given
below.
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How do youth assess student’s 21st century life and career skills and their learning
environments?
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Implication: How may the results of this study be utilized in enhancing the 21st century
life and career skills of students and their learning environments?
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Reference: De Leon, E. (2020). Building and enhancing new literacies across the
curriculum. Quezon City: LORIMAR Publishing Inc.
MODULE ASSESSMENT
Write the 21st Century Education concepts on each ray of the sun.
Write down below how will you integrate these concepts in the teaching-
learning process.
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