EDUC 130:

Building and Enhancing

New Literacies Across the
Curriculum
 LESSON 1:
21st Century Education
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
A. 21st Century Education Context
B. A Paradigm Shift for 21st Century Education

C. Critical Attributes of 21st Century

D. The Character of a 21st Century Teacher
E. Common 21st Century Technology Tools for
Learning
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
According to Dr. Douglas Kellner, this technological revolution
bears a greater impact on society than the transition from an
oral to print culture.
A. 21st Century Education Context
1. 21st Century Schools
2. 21st Century Curriculum
3. 21st Century Learning Environment
4. Technology in the 21st Century Pedagogy
5. Understanding 21st Learners
6. 21st Century Skills Outcome and the Demands in the
Job Market
7. The 21st Century Learning Implications
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
A. 21st Century Education Context
1. 21st Century Schools

• Schools in 21st century focus on project-based

curriculum.
• Schools will go from ‘building’ to ‘nerve centers’ with
open walls and roofless while connecting teachers,
students and the community breadth of knowledge in
the world.
• Therefore, the 21st century will require knowledge
generation, not just information delivery, and schools
will need to create a “culture of inquiry”.
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
A. 21st Century Education Context
1. 21st Century Schools

Implications for teachers:

1)Teachers must discover student interest;
2) Teachers must instill curiosity to students as
fundamental of lifelong learning;
3) Teachers must be flexible in how they teach;
4) Teachers must excite learners to become
resourceful.
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
A. 21st Century Education Context
2. 21st Century Curriculum
• In 21st century curriculum has critical attributes that are
interdisciplinary, project-based, and research driven.

• The curriculum also integrates higher-order thinking skills,

multiple intelligence, technology and multimedia, multiple
literacies, and authentic assessments, including service learning (
http://edglossary.org/21st-century-skills)

• The curriculum and instruction are designed imbued with concept

of differentiation. (http://edglossary.org/21st-century-skills).
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
A. 21st Century Education Context
3. 21st Century Learning Environment
• Collaborative and cooperative learning
• Ideal learning environment
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
A. 21st Century Education Context
4. Technology in the 21st Century Pedagogy

• Technologies are not ends themselves, but these are tools

students use to create knowledge for personal and social change.
• 21st Century learning recognizes full access should to technology.
(http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Critical_Pedagogy.htm)
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
A. 21st Century Education Context
5. Understanding 21st Learners

• 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.
• Digital Immigrants often reflect, are sequential, and
linear. They tend to intellectualize and believe that
hearing is constant (Hawkins and Graham, 1994).
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
A. 21st Century Education Context
6. 21st Century Skills Outcome and the Demands in the Job Market

• The 21st Century skills are 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
2) Literacy Skills
3) Life Skills
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
A. 21st Century Education Context
7. The 21st Century Learning Implications

• 21st century skills are relevant to all academic areas and

the skills may be taught in a wide variety of both in-
campus and community settings.
• Teachers should practice teaching cross-disciplinary skills
in related courses.
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
B. A Paradigm Shift for 21st Century Education

Before 21st Century Education 21st Century Education

Time-based Outcome-based
Focus: memorization of discrete Focus: what students Know, Can
facts Do and Are Like after all the
details are forgotten.
Lower order thinking skills in Higher order thinking skills
Bloom's Taxonomy, such as (metacognition), such as
knowledge and comprehension application, analysis, synthesis,
and evaluation
Textbook-driven Research-driven
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
B. A Paradigm Shift for 21st Century Education

Before 21st Century Education 21st Century Education

Passive learning Active learning
Learners work in isolation and Learners work collaboratively
confined in the classroom (walled with classmates and others
classroom) around the world (global
classroom).
Teacher-centered: teacher is Student-centered: teacher is
dispenser of knowledge, facilitator/ coach of students'
information and attention. learning.
Little to no student freedom. Great deal of student freedom.
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
B. A Paradigm Shift for 21st Century Education

Before 21st Century Education 21st Century Education

"Discipline problems- No trust No "discipline problems -
between educators and students. Students and teachers have
Little student motivation. mutual respect and relationship
as co-learners. High student
motivation.
Fragmented curriculum Integrated and Interdisciplinary
curriculum

Grades taken from formal Grades are based on students'

assessment measures entered in performance as evidence of
the class record for reporting learning outcome
purposes
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
B. A Paradigm Shift for 21st Century Education
Before 21st Century Education 21st Century Education
Assessment is for marking Assessment is an important
purposes and placed as part of aspect of instruction to gauge
lesson plan structure. learning outcomes.
Low expectations. What students High expectations that students
receive is what they get succeed in learning to high
extent.
Teacher is judge. No one else Self, peer and others serve as
sees student work. evaluators of student learning
using wide range of metrics and
authentic assessments.
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
B. A Paradigm Shift for 21st Century Education
Before 21st Century Education 21st Century Education
Curriculum is irrelevant and Curriculum is connected to
meaningless to the students. students' interests, experiences,
talents and the real world.
Print is the primary vehicle of Performances, projects and
learning and assessment. multiple forms of media are used
for learning and assessment.
Student diversity is ignored. Curriculum and instruction
address student diversity.

Students just follow orders and Students are empowered to lead

instructions while listening to and initiate while creating
teacher's lecture. solutions and solving problems.
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
B. A Paradigm Shift for 21st Century Education
Before 21st Century Education 21st Century Education
Literacy is the 3 R's (reading, Multiple literacies of the 21
writing and "rithmetic). Century aligned to living and
working in a globalized new
society.
Factory model, based upon the Global model based upon the
needs of employers for the needs of a globalized high-tech
Industrial Age of the 19th century society
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C. The Critical Attributes of 21st Century Education

Integrated and
Interdisciplinary

Technologies & Multimedia Global Classroom

Student-Centeredness 21st Century Skills

Project-Based & Relevant, Rigorous,

Research-Driven and Real World

Creating/Adapting to Constant
Personal and Social Change, and
Lifelong Learning
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D. The Characteristics of a 21st Century Teacher
 The 21st Century teaching-learning environment becomes more
complicated brought by technical changes. Therefore, teachers should
be able to cope with and adapt to these changes.

1. Multi-literate 6.
2. Multi-specialist Flexible
7. Creative problem
3. Multi-skilled solver
8. Critical
thinker
9. Has passion for excellent
4. Self-directed
teaching
5. Lifelong learner 10. High Emotional Quotient
(EQ)
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E. Common 21st Century Technology Tools for Learning
1. Affinity Groups 11. Wiki
2. Blogs 12. Youtube

3. E-portfolio 13. Google DOcs

4. Hypertext 14. Prezi
5. Podcasts 15. Easybib
6. Web 2.0 16. Social Media Platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Edmodo, Schoology,
Instagram, etc.)

7. Myspace ( 17. Smartboards and audience response

http://www.Myspace.com) systems
8. Second Life ( 18. ReadWriteThink.org. (
http://www.secondlife.com) www.readwritethink.org)
9. Semantic Web 19. WebQuest Page (www.webquest.org)

10. Webkinz (http://www.webkinz.com) 20. Literacy Web (

http://www.literacy.uconn.edu)
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E. Common 21st Century Technology Tools for Learning
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
E. Common 21st Century Technology Tools for Learning
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
E. Common 21st Century Technology Tools for Learning
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
E. Common 21st Century Technology Tools for Learning
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
E. Common 21st Century Technology Tools for Learning
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
E. Common 21st Century Technology Tools for Learning
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
E. Common 21st Century Technology Tools for Learning
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
E. Common 21st Century Technology Tools for Learning
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
E. Common 21st Century Technology Tools for Learning
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
E. Common 21st Century Technology Tools for Learning
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
E. Common 21st Century Technology Tools for Learning
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
E. Common 21st Century Technology Tools for Learning
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
E. Common 21st Century Technology Tools for Learning
LESSON 1: 21st Century Education
E. Common 21st Century Technology Tools for Learning