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• The 21st-century skills are a set of abilities that students need to develop to succeed in the information age.
• Learning skills the 21st-century learning skills are often called the 4 C’s:

  critical thinking, creative thinking, communicating, and

  collaborating. These skills help students learn, and so they are

  vital to success in school and beyond.
• Critical thinking is focused, careful analysis of something to

  better understand it. When people speak of “left brain” activity, they are usually referring to critical thinking
• Creative thinking is expansive, open-ended invention and

  discovery of possibilities. When people speak of “right brain” activity, they most often mean creative thinking
• Communicating analyzing the situations, evaluating messages, listening actively , reading speaking , using technology
• Collaborating allocation resources, brainstorming, decision –making,

  goal setting, managing time
• Literacy skills help students gain knowledge through reading as well as using media and technology. these skills also help students create knowledge through writing as well as developing media and technology.
• Information Literacy students need to be able to work effectively with information, using it at all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
• Media literacy involves understanding the many ways that information is produced and distributed. The forms of media have exploded in the last decade and new media arrive every day:
• Technology Literacy refers to the knowledge and skills required to effectively and responsibly use technology tools and resources. It encompasses understanding basic computer operations, digital communication, software applications, and digital citizenship.
• Life Skills equip students to thrive in the classroom and in the

  world beyond. The 21st century life skills are flexibility, initiative,

  social skills, productivity, and leadership.
• Strengthening Early Childhood Education ( Universal Kindergarten) with the universal Kindergarten program of the Department of Education, every Filipino child is expected to have access to early childhood education.
• 2. Making the curriculum relevant to the learners ( Contextualization and Enhancement) research shows that learners will value a curriculum that is relevant to their lives.
• Building Proficiency ( Mother tongue Based Multilingual Education) to be able to promote the child’s dominant language and use it as a language of instruction, maximum use of technological tools is highly encouraged.
• Ensuring Integrated and Seamless Learning ( Spiral Progression) Learning basic concept that lead to a more complex and sophisticated version of the general concepts entail TRACK: Technological Knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and content knowledge.
• Gearing Up for the Future The K to 12 Curriculum ensures college readiness by aligning the core and applied courses to the College Readiness Standards ( CRS) and the New General Education (GE) Curriculum.
• Nurturing the Holistically Developed Filipino ( College and Livelihood Readiness, 21st Century Skills) To nurture the holistically developed Filipino, every K to 12 graduate is expected to be ready to go into different paths higher education, employment or entrepreneurship.
• Integration of technology in education simply refers to the use of technology to enhance the student learning experience.
• John Pisapia ( 1994)- Integrating technology with teaching means the use of learning technologies to introduce, reinforce, supplement and

  extended skills.
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) effective integration of technology is achieved when student are able to

  select technology tools to help them obtain observation in timely manner, analyze and synthesize the information.
• Margaret Lloyd (2005)- ICT Integration encompasses an integral part of a broader curriculum reforms which include both infra-structural as well as pedagogical considerations that are changing not only how learning occurs but what is learned.
• Qiyun Wang and Huay Lit Woo ( 2007)- Integrating information and communication (ICT) into teaching and learning is a growing area that has attracted many educators’ efforts in recent years.
• Bernard Bahati (2010) the process of integrating ICT in teaching and learning has to be done at both pedagogical and technological levels with much emphasis put on pedagogy. ICT integration into teaching and learning has to be underpinned by sound pedagogical principles.
• UNESCO ( 2005)- ICT integration is not merely mastering the hardware and software skills. Teachers need to realize how to organize the classroom to structure the learning task so that ICT resources become automatic and natural response to the requirements for learning environment in the same way teachers use markers and white boards in the classroom.
• Moursund ( 2005 )- ICT includes the full range of computer hardware,

  computer software, and telecommunications facilities. Thus, it

  includes computer devices ranging from handheld calculators to

  multimillion worth supercomputers.
• Tinio ( 2009)- ICT is a diverse set of technological tools and

  resources used to communicate, create, disseminate,

  store, and manage information.
• UNESCO ( 2020 )- It (ICT) is a diverse set of technological tools and resources used to transmit , store , create, share or exchange information. These technological tools include computers, the internet ( website, blogs and emails), live broadcasting technologies ( radio television and webcasting), recorded broadcasting technologies ( podcasting, audio, and players and storage devices) and telephony ( fixed or mobile satellite , visio/video conferencing, etc.)
• Ratheeswari (2018)- Information Communication Technologies ( ICT) influence every aspect of human life. They play salient roles in workplaces, in business, education and entertainment. Moreover,

  more people recognize ICT as the catalyst for change that include change in working, conditions, handling and exchanging information , teaching methods , learning approaches , scientific research and in accessing information communication technologies.
• Jadhav and Pantakar 2013 curriculum is the plan interaction of pupils with instructional content, material, resources, and process for evaluating the attainment pf educational objectives.
• Bhatt and Patel (2016)- The curriculum is defined as the sum total of all activities undertaken by the school on behalf of society for the development of children.