Learning Outcome

Define 21st Century education

Describe the 21st Century teacher and the needed

innovative tools for learning

Examine the critical attributes of 21st Century education

Explain how 21st Century education concepts can be

integrated in the classroom
 Learning Outcome
Draw relevant life lessons and significant values from
the experience in practicing 21st Century education

Analyze research abstract on 21st Century education

and its implications on teaching-learning process

Prepare an evaluation instrument intended for 21st

Century teaching-learning
This modern society is ushered in by a dramatic
technological revolution. It is an increasingly diverse,
globalized and complex media-saturated society.
According to Dr. Douglas Kellner, this technological
revolution bears a greater impact on society than the
transition from an oral to print culture.
Education prepares students for life in this world. amidst
emerging social issues and concerns, there is a need for
students to be able to communicate, function and create
change personally, socially, economically and politically at
the local, national and global levels by participating in
real-life and real-world service learning projects.
Emerging technologies and resulting globalization also
provide unlimited possibilities for exciting discoveries and
developments.
21ST

CENTURY
EDUCATION
CONTEXT
21ST CENTURY EDUCATION CONTEXT
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 a 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 anew 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
21st Century 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 21st Century Curriculum.

The twenty-first century curriculum has critical

attributes that are interdisciplinary, project-based and
research-driven. It is connected to all levels in which
students may collaborate with people around the world
in various projects. The curriculum also integrates
higher-order thinking skills, multiple intelligences,
technology and multimedia, multiple literacies and
authentic assessments, including service-learning.
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
Learning is not confined through
memorization of facts and figures alone but
rather is connected to previous knowledge,
personal experience, interests, talents and
habits
The 21st Century Learning Environment.

Typically, a 21st Century classroom is not confined to a

literal classroom building but a learning environment
where students collaborate with their peers, exchange
insights, coach and mentor one another and share talents
and skills with other students.

Cooperative learning is also apparent, in which students

work in teams because cooperation is given more
emphasis than competition, collaborative learning more
than isolated learning.
Inside every classroom, students shall apply their
knowledge of research in life, which is a clear
indication of a relevant, rigorous, 21st century real-
life curriculum.

An ideal learning environment also considers the kind

of spaces needed by students and teachers in
conducting investigations and projects by diverse
groups for independent work.
Technology in the 21st Century Pedagogy.

Technologies are not ends in themselves but these are

tools students use to create knowledge for personal and
social change.

21st Century learning recognizes full access to

technology. Therefore, a better bandwidth of Wi-Fi
access should be available along areas of the school for
the students to access their files and supplement their
learning inside the classroom
Understanding 21st Century Learners.

Today’s students are referred to as “digital

natives", while educators as “digital immigrants”
(Prensky, 2001).