1. UNIT 1.
THE 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION

2. 21st Century
Education Contexts

3. Topics
21st Century Schools
21st Century Learning Implications
21st Century Learning Environment
Technology in the 21st Century
Pedagogy
Understanding 21st Century Learners
21st Century Skills Outcome and
the Demands in the Job Market
21st Century Curriculum
A Paradigm Shift for 21st Century
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5. Education prepares students for life in this world that can make them communicate, function and create
change personally, socially,economically, andpoliticallyonlocal,nationalandgloballevels

6. There is a drastic change brought about by the advent of the 21st century education in the context of a
curriculum, classroom environment,technology, learnersand demandsof the job market

7. It focus on a project-based curriculum for life
that would engagestudents.
There is 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.

8. Schools
- From “building” to “nerve
centers”, with open walls
and are roofless

9. - Transform from being
dispensers of information to
becoming facilitators of
learning & help students
translate information into
knowledge & knowledge into
wisdom

10. - Become adaptive to
changes
- These changes have
implications for teachers

11. Implications for teachers
They must discover student interest by helping them
see what and how they are learning
They instillcuriosity, which is fundamental for lifelong
learning
They must be flexible inhow they teach
They must excite learners to become more resourceful

12. The 21st Centurylearning demandsaschoolto excite students.
Parentsareinformedaboutthepositivechangesin theirchildren
Learnersmanifestimprovement in basic skills ofreading,writing,speaking,listening,
researching,scientific exploration,math,multimedia skills andthelike

13. 21st Century Curriculum
Critical Attributes that are interdisciplinary, project-based and
research-driven
Connected to local, national and global communities, in which in
students may collaborate with people
The curriculum integrates higher order thinking skills, multiple
intelligences, technology and multimedia, multiple literacies and
authenticassessments

14. 21st Century Curriculum
It is self-directed students
Curriculum and instruction: conceptof differentiation
- The instruction turns into thematic (Thematic approach is a way
of teaching and learning, whereby many areas of the
curriculum, are connected together and integrated within a
theme.), project-based, and integrated with skills and
competencies
Learning not confined through memorization of facts & figures alone but
connected to previous knowledge, personal experiences, interests and
habits

15. 21st Century Learning
Environment
Classroom is not confined to a literal classroom building but a learning
environment wherestudentscollaborate withtheirpeers
Exchangeinsights
Coachandmentoroneanother
Sharetalents andskills
Cooperativelearning isalso apparent

16. 21st Century Learning
Environment
Processof creatingaworld-class21st centurylearningenvironment:
Building new schools
Remodeling of present school
facilities
Creating environmentally
FRIENDLY
ENERGY-EFFICIENT “GREEN” schools

17. 21st Century Learning
Environment
Ideal learning Environment
Spacesbystudentsand
teachers
Wall space for displaying students’
output
Aplacewhere theparents andcommunitycangatherto watchstudents’
performances

18. Technology in the 21st
Century Pedagogy
Technology are tools use to create
knowledge for personal and social change
Availability of televisions
Other resources in the school can be utilized by
students in creating opportunities for their
knowledge explorations

19. Understanding 21st
Century Learners Learners referred to as “digital native”
while educators as “digital immigrants”
“digital native” usually react, predominant senses: motion & touch,
learn through experience & learn differently
“digital immigrants” often reflect, sequential and linear,
predominant senses: hearing & seeing, tend to intellectualize
and believe that learning is constant

20. Understanding 21st
Century Learners
Learners entire life have been immersed in the
21st Century media culture
Computing devices such as cellphones
Hand held gaming devices, laptops,
TVs, and game console at home
Based on the survey study by Henry J.
Kaiser found out that young people
ages 8-18 spend on electronic media
with an average of 6 hours a day.
Do some multitasking
Effects: preschoolers easily navigate electronic multimedia resources in
which they learn basic knowledge as well as more complex tasks
Study of Dr. Michael Wesch, though learners understand how to
access and utilize these tools: for entertainment purposes. Learners
should be prepared and assisted to become media literate as they
function in an online collaborative research-based environment

21. 21st Century Skills Outcome
and the Demands in the Job
Market
21st Century Skills are a set of abilities that students
need to develop to succeed in the information age
Learning Skills which comprises critical thinking, creative thinking,
collaborating and communicating
Literacy Skills include information, media, & technology
Life Skills includes flexibility, initiative, social skills, productivity &
leadership

22. 21st Century Skills Outcome
and the Demands in the Job
Market
Skills demanded in the job market includes
 knowing a trade,
 following direction,
 getting along with others
 working hard
 being professional, efficient, prompt, honest &
fair

23. 21st Century Skills Outcome
and the Demands in the Job
Market
To adapt to these jobs in this information age, (education
4.0), learners need to think deeply about issues, solve
problems creatively, work in teams, communicate clearly in
media, learn ever-changing technologies and deal with the
influx of information
Industries look for employees who can think critically, solve problems
creatively, innovative, collaborate, and communicate.
Schools need to embed time-tested industry-demanded work skills in
the curriculum

24. 21st Century Learning
Implications
21st century skills are relevant to allacademic areas
Teachers should practice teachingcross-disciplinary skills in
related courses:
a. Integratingresearch methods
b. Articulating technicalscientificconcepts in verbal, written,
and graphic forms
c. Presentinglaboratory reports
d. Use of emerging technologies,software programs and
multimediaapplications

25. 21st Century Learning
Implications
The assessmenttools should containtheseskills
- They may design or adopt learning standards that students
should acquire and master

26. 21st Century Learning
Implications
Students & teachers should use a variety of skills, multiple
technologies and new ways of analyzing & processing
information
Students should take initiative, thinking creatively, planning out
the process & working collaboratively in teams with other
students

27. 21st Century Learning
Implications
Schools may allow students to pursue alternatives in which
students can earn academic merits and satisfy graduation
requirements by completingan internship.
Students can practice a variety of practical, career-based, work-
relatedskills and values

28. A Paradigm Shift for 21st
Century
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Time-based
Before 21st Century Education
21st Century Education
Outcome-based
FOCUS MEMORIZATION OF
DISCRETE FACTS
Lower order thinking
skills in Bloom’s
Taxonomy
Textbook-driven
Focus: what students
KNOW, can DO & are LIKE
Higher Order Thinking
Skills
Research-driven

29. A Paradigm Shift for 21st
Century
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Passive learning
Before 21st Century Education
21st Century Education
Active Learning
Learners work in isolation
and confined in the
classroom
Teacher-centered, teacher
is dispenser of knowledge,
information, & attention
Little to no students
freedom
Learners work collaboratively
with classmates & others
Student-centered, teacher is
facilitator/coach of students’
learning
Great deal of students’
freedom

30. A Paradigm Shift for 21st
Century
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Discipline-problems
Before 21st Century Education
21st Century Education
No “discipline-problems
Fragmented curriculum
Grades taken from formal
assessment
Low expectations
Integrated &
interdisciplinary curriculum
Grades are based on the
performance as evidence of
learning outcomes
High expectation that students
succeed in learning to high
extent

31. A Paradigm Shift for 21st
Century
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Teacher is judge
Before 21st Century Education
21st Century Education
Self, peer & others
serves as evaluators
Curriculum is irrelevant &
meaningless to learners
Student diversity is ignored
Students follow orders
&instructions while listening to
teachers
Curriculum is connected to
students’ interest,
experiences, talents
Curriculum & instruction
address student diversity
Students empowered to lead
& initiate creating solutions

32. A Paradigm Shift for 21st
Century
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Literacy is the 3Rs (Reading,
wRiting, aRithmetic
Before 21st Century Education
21st Century Education
Multiple literacies of the 21st
Century align to living and
working in a globalized new
society
Factory model-based upon the
needs of employers for the
Industrial Age of the 19th
century
Global model based upon the
needs of a globalized high tech
society

33. The paradigm shift from the 20th to the 21st Century shows that the structure and
modalities of education hasevolved.
Students become the center of teaching-learningprocess using wide array of
technological tools

34. Assessment hasbeen made varied to address multiple literacy development indiverse
contexts
Teachers turn to become facilitators
Curriculum is designed in a way it connects to life in the real world

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