Prul Educ 10 Building and Enhancing New Literacies

• 21st Century Education:

  • Ushered in by a dramatic technological revolution
  • Society is increasingly diverse, globalized, and media-saturated
  • Impact of technological revolution greater than transition from oral to print culture
  • Education prepares students for life in this world
  • Students need to communicate, function, and create change personally, socially, economically, and politically at local, national, and global levels through real-life service learning projects
• 21st Century Schools:

  • Focus on project-based curriculum for life to address real-world problems and humanity concerns
  • Emphasis on knowledge generation, creating a "culture-of-inquiry"
  • Implications for Teachers:
  • Discover student interests to prepare them for the real world
  • Instill curiosity for lifelong learning
  • Be flexible in teaching methods
  • Excite learners to be resourceful and continue learning outside formal education
• 21st Century Curriculum:

  • Designed with differentiation concept
  • Classroom filled with self-directed students working independently and interdependently
  • Integrates higher-order thinking skills, multiple intelligences, technology, multimedia, multiple literacies, and authentic assessment
  • Attributes: interdisciplinary, project-based, research-driven
• 21st Century Learning Environment:

  • Classroom not confined to a literal building, but a collaborative learning environment
  • Students collaborate, exchange insights, coach, mentor, and share talents
  • Consideration of spaces needed for investigations and projects by diverse groups
  • Utilization of resources like laboratories and learning centers for simulations and manipulative works
  • Full access to technology with better Wifi bandwidth for learning and knowledge creation
• Technology in 21st Century Pedagogy:

  • Students collaborate, exchange insights, coach, mentor, and share talents
  • Ideal learning environment considers spaces needed for investigations and projects
  • Technologies are tools for students to create knowledge for personal and social change
• 21st Century Skills Outcome and Job Market Demands:

  • Utilization of resources for knowledge explorations
  • Laboratories and learning centers set up for simulations and manipulative works
  • Full access to technology for knowledge creation
  • Technologies as tools for personal and social change
• 21st Century Skills are abilities students need to develop to succeed in the information age
• 3 types of 21st Century Skills:

  • Learning Skills: critical thinking, creative thinking, collaborating, and communicating
  • Literacy Skills: information literacy, media literacy, and technology literacy
  • Life Skills: flexibility, initiative, social skills, productivity, and leadership
• Skills demanded in the job market include knowing a trade, following directions, getting along with others, working hard, being professional, efficient, prompt, honest, and fair
• To adapt to jobs in the 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
• Various industries look for employees who can think critically, solve problems creatively, innovate, collaborate, and communicate
• Schools need to embed time-tested industry-demanded work skills in the curriculum for a perfect match between academe and industry demands
• 21st Century skills are relevant to all academic areas and can be taught in various settings
• Teachers should teach cross-disciplinary skills, integrate research methods in different disciplines, and use a variety of applied skills and technologies
• Accrediting organizations and regulatory bodies may require 21st-century skills in the curriculum
• Schools may allow students to pursue alternatives as information and knowledge continuously increase
• Schools need to adapt and develop new teaching and learning methods that reflect a changing world
• Teachers and students must understand the socio-historical context to move towards a vision of the future
• 21st Century skills are relevant to all academic areas
• 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
• Schools and teachers should use a variety of applied skills, multiple technologies, and new ways of analyzing and processing information
• Schools may allow students to pursue alternatives
• Information and knowledge are continuously increasing at a certain rate
• Schools need to adapt and develop new ways of teaching and learning that reflect a changing world
• Teachers and students must understand the socio-historical context of where they are now to move toward a vision of the future
• Before 21st Century Education:
• Focus was on memorization of discrete facts
• Lower order thinking skills were emphasized, such as knowledge and comprehension
• Learning was textbook-driven and passive
• Learners worked in isolation and were confined in the classroom
• Education was teacher-centered with little student freedom
• Discipline problems existed with no trust between educators and students
• Curriculum was fragmented and grades were based on formal assessment measures
• Assessment was for marking purposes and placed as part of the lesson plan structure
• Curriculum was irrelevant and meaningless to the students
• Print was the primary vehicle of learning and assessment
• Student diversity was ignored
• Students followed orders and instructions while listening to teacher's lecture
• Low expectations were set for students