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Characteristics of 21st Century

Teaching and Learning
JERRY GLENN L. CASTILLO, LPT

Building and Enhancing New Literacies Across the Curriculum

LESSON OBJECTIVE

▰ Explain the characteristics of 21st century education

▰ Draw relevant life lessons and significant values
from the experience in practicing 21st century
education

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LESSON SECTIONS

▰ Introduction
▰ 21st Century Schools
▰ 21st Century Curriculum
▰ Technology in the 21st Century Pedagogy
▰ Understanding 21st Century Learners
▰ Characteristics of 21st Century Education

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 Introduction

• 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.

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21st Century Schools

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 21st Century Schools 1
 Schools in the 21st century focus on a
project-based curriculum that would
engage students in addressing real-world
problems and humanity concerns and
issues.

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 21st Century Schools 1
 It entails 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.

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 21st Century Schools 1
 Schools 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.

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 21st Century Schools 1
 Teachers 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, 21st century requires knowledge
generation, not just information delivery,
and schools create a culture of inquiry.

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 21st Century Schools 1
 Learners 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.
 21st century learning demands a school that
excites students for school. There is a little
or no discipline problem because of strong
student engagement.
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 21st Century Schools 1
 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.

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21st Century Curriculum

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 21st Century Curriculum 2
 The 21st century curriculum has critical attributes
that are interdisciplinary, project based and
research-driven. It is connected to local, national
and global communities in which students may
collaborate with people around the world in
various projects.

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 21st Century Curriculum cont… 2
 The curriculum also integrates higher
order thinking skills (HOTS), multiple
intelligences, technology and
multimedia, multiple literacies and
authentic assessments, including
service learning.

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 21st Century Curriculum cont… 2
 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.
 Instruction turns to be more thematic, project-
based and integrated with skills and
competencies that are explored through
research and concept application in projects
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21st Century Learning
Environment

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 21st Century Learning Environment 3
 A 21st century learning environment is a place
where students collaborate with their peers,
exchange insights, coach and mentor one
another and share talents and skills with other
students.

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 21st Century Learning Environment 3
 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.

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 21st Century Learning Environment 3
 An ideal learning environment has plenty of
wall space and other areas for displaying
student work that includes a place where the
parents and the community can gather to
watch student performances, as well as a
place where they can meet for discussions.

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Technology in the 21st
Century Pedagogy
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 Technology in the 21st Century Pedagogy 4
 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.
 Other resources in the school can also be
utilized by students in creating opportunities
for their knowledge explorations.
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Understanding 21st Century
Learners
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 Understanding the 21st Century Learners 5
 Today’s students are referred to as “digital natives,” while
educators as “digital immigrants” (Prensky, 2001).
 Most likely, digital natives usually react, are random,
holistic and non-linear. Their predominant senses are
motion and touch.
 They learn through experience and learn differently.

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 Understanding the 21st Century Learners 5
 Digital immigrants often reflect, are sequential, and
linear. Their predominant senses are hearing and
seeing. They tend to intellectualize and believe that
learning is constant (Hawkins and Graham, 1994).

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 Understanding the 21st Century Learners 5
 Students’ entire lives have been immersed in
the 21st century media culture. They take in the
world via the filter of computing devices, such
as cellular phones, hand held gaming devices,
PDAs, and laptops plus the computers, TVs,
and game console at home.

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 Understanding the 21st Century Learners 5
 The preschoolers easily navigate electronic
multimedia resources on games, in which
they learn colors, numbers, letters, spelling,
and more complex tasks, such as mixing
basic colors to create new colors, problem-
solving activities, and reading.

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 Understanding the 21st Century Learners 5
 Although, today’s students understand how to access and utilize
these tools, they use them only for entertainment purposes.
 Thus, students must be prepared and assisted to become media
literate as they function in an online collaborative research-based
environment with the advent of researching, analyzing,
synthesizing, critiquing, evaluating and creating new knowledge.

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Characteristics of 21st Century
Education
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 Characteristics of 21st Century Education

1. Learner-centered. Students get to learn and apply the

new knowledge that solves a problem. As the teacher,
you present a problem and guide them as they come up
with a solution until they discover the new information.

2. Media-driven. Provides good communication between

school, teachers, students, and society. 21st century
education wherein we can learn through mass media like
television, radio and newspaper.
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 Characteristics

3. Personalized. One of the biggest challenges in the

personalized-learning environment is meeting the
diverse needs of students while staying true to
curriculum content and standards. One size does not
fit all of course. Some students are not interested in
the content, and some are academically ready for the
skills being covered.
4. Transfer-by-design. Is an integral process trying to
innovate or have a change in previous learning and
arrange the information, so it will result a good idea in
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 Characteristics

5. Visibly-Relevant. Enhance motivation and facilitate learning and performance

6. Data-Rich. Data has a huge role in the ongoing process of analysis, insights,
new learning and changes in practice.
7. Adaptable. You get to experience and take different roles and responsibility that
helps building the best practices the student needs in bringing success in the
new world.
8. Interdependent. It is two or more people dependent on each other. It is a
learning that requires connecting to others and cannot be done alone.
9. Diverse. Diversity promotes depth knowledge and give students and teachers
exposure to new culture, historical figure, audience, and many more.
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 Conclusion

 21st Century education focuses on personalization, equality,

collaboration, communication and community relationships. These skills
are required in a rapidly changing global economy. Students will be
training for jobs that do not even exist yet.
 In the 21st Century, literacy skills increasingly reflect technology use and
the abilities necessary to problem-solve, collaborate, and present
information through multi-media. As technology becomes more readily
available to all students, concepts of literacy change.

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“ The illiterates of the 21st century will not
be those who cannot read and write…
but rather those who cannot learn,
unlearn… and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler

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THANKS!
Any questions?

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REFERENCES

https://edglossary.org/21st-century-skills

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