Prof. Ed.

107 Reviewer (Midterms) - Connected to local, national, and

global communities for
collaboration.
21st Century Education Overview: - Integrates higher-order thinking
skills, multiple intelligences,
- Spans from 2000 to 2100. technology, multimedia, and
- Currently, 13 years and 99 days of the authentic assessments.
21st Century have passed. - Emphasizes service learning.

Education 21st Century Learning Environment

- Defined as imparting or acquiring - Classroom extends beyond physical

general knowledge, developing reasoning boundaries to foster collaboration.
and judgment, and preparing intellectually - Emphasizes cooperative learning
for mature life. over competition.
- Utilizes technology and internet
- Involves imparting or acquiring specific systems for learning.
knowledge through instruction, training, or
study.
- Involves the science or art of teaching; Understanding 21st Century Learners
pedagogies. - Students are digital natives,
educators are digital immigrants.
- Digital natives are random, holistic,
21st Century Education Contexts and non-linear learners.
- Schools focus on a project-based - Digital immigrants are sequential
curriculum addressing real-world problems and linear learners.
and humanity concerns. - Digital natives learn through
experience and sensory input, while
- Schools transition from traditional digital immigrants intellectualize
buildings to open, roofless nerve centers learning.
connecting teachers, students, and the - Young people spend an average of
community to global knowledge. six hours a day on electronic media
- Teachers evolve from information and often multitask.
dispensers to facilitators of learning, helping
students translate information into
knowledge and wisdom. 21st Century Skills Outcome and the
Demands in the Job Market
- Emphasis on knowledge generation
rather than information delivery, fostering a 1. Learning Skills: Critical thinking,
"culture of inquiry." creative thinking, collaborating,
communicating.
2. Literacy Skills: Information literacy,
Implications for Teachers media literacy, technology literacy.
3. Life Skills: Flexibility, initiative, social
1. Discover student interests to prepare skills, productivity, leadership.
them for the real world.
2. Instill curiosity for lifelong learning.
3. Flexibility in teaching approaches.
4. Encourage learners to be resourceful
beyond formal schooling.

The 21st Century Curriculum

- Attributes include interdisciplinary,
project-based, and research-driven.
A Paradigm Shift for 21st Century The Critical Attributes of 21st Century
Education Education
Education Evolution: This highlights the
idea that education is constantly changing
and adapting to new circumstances and
needs.
Eight Critical Attributes: These are key
characteristics identified as essential for
education in the 21st century, implying a
shift from traditional educational
approaches.

Eight Attributes of 21st Century

Education
1. Integrated and Interdisciplinary:
Instead of teaching subjects in
isolation, this approach emphasizes
integrating various disciplines to
provide a holistic understanding of
concepts.
2. Technologies and Multimedia:
Incorporating technology and
multimedia tools to enhance the
teaching and learning process,
leveraging resources such as
computers, online platforms, and
multimedia equipment.
3. Global Classrooms: Fostering global
citizenship by exposing students to
local, national, and global issues,
promoting cultural understanding and
awareness.
4. Creating/Adapting to Constant
Personal and Social Change and
Lifelong Learning: Recognizing that
learning doesn't end in the classroom
and emphasizing the importance of
adapting to ongoing personal and
The Critical Attributes of 21st Century societal changes throughout life.
Education 5. Student-Centered: Putting students at
the center of learning, considering their
individual needs, learning styles,
interests, and abilities, and employing
differentiated instruction to address
diversity.
6. 21st Century Skills: Beyond basic
literacy and numeracy, emphasizing
critical thinking, problem-solving,
creativity, ICT literacy, and other skills
essential for success in the 21st
century.
7. Project-Based and Research-Driven:
Encouraging active learning through
projects and research activities,
 promoting inquiry-based learning and promoting integrative thinking and
evidence-based decision-making. reflective learning.
8. Relevant, Rigorous, and Real- 4. Hypertext: Electronic texts with
World: Ensuring that education is multiple links, allowing users to explore
meaningful by connecting learning to ideas in various directions.
real-life experiences and contexts, 5. Podcasts: Digital audio files
using current and relevant information. downloadable to computers or MP3
players, fostering audio-based learning.
6. Web 2.0: Second-generation Web
Characteristics of a 21st Century communities emphasizing participatory
Teacher literacies.
7. Myspace: Social networking platform
1. Multi-literate: Proficient in using for connecting with friends, sharing
various technologies for teaching. content, and discussing various topics.
2. Multi-specialist: Knowledgeable not 8. Second Life: 3D virtual world for
only in their subject area but also in socializing, participating in activities,
other fields to facilitate and creating virtual property and
interdisciplinary learning. services.
3. Multi-skilled: Versatile in teaching, 9. Semantic Web: Extension of the
facilitating, and organizing activities current Web enabling more efficient
to meet diverse learning needs. data retrieval and integration.
4. Self-directed: Taking initiative to 10. Webkinz: Internet simulation for
achieve learning goals and adapt to children to learn pet care and other
educational demands. skills.
5. Lifelong learner: Continuously 11. Wiki: Collaboration software enabling
updating knowledge and skills, and users to create, comment on, and revise
sharing them with students and collaborative projects.
colleagues. 12. Youtube: Video sharing website for
6. Flexible: Adapting teaching methods uploading, viewing, and sharing video
to accommodate different learning content.
styles and preferences. 13. Google Docs: Collaboration platform
7. Creative Problem Solver: Generating for document compilation, processing,
innovative solutions to challenges in and analysis.
education. 14. Prezi: Presentation software with
8. Critical Thinker: Encouraging creative templates.
students to think critically, reflect, and 15. Easybib: Citation generation tool for
question. various formats.
9. Passion for Excellent Teaching: 16. Social Platforms: Communication and
Motivated to inspire and guide idea-sharing tools like Facebook,
students in their learning journey. Twitter, Edmodo, Schoology, and
10. High Emotional Quotient (EQ): Instagram.
Possessing empathy and emotional 17. Smartboards and Audience Response
resilience to effectively interact with Systems: Classroom tools replacing
students and handle the emotional traditional chalkboards or whiteboards.
demands of teaching. 18. ReadWriteThink.org: Repository of
literacy lessons integrating Internet
resources.
Common 21st Century Technology Tools 19. WebQuest Page: Platform for
for Learning accessing and creating webquests across
content areas.
20. Literacy Web: Online portal offering
1. Affinity Groups: Communities with resources for new literacies for teachers.
common interests, now extended
electronically.
2. Blogs: Interactive websites for sharing 21st Century Skills
content like links, photos, and videos.
3. E-portfolio: Digitally stored student
work accessible to multiple audiences,
 - A broad set knowledge, skills, habits, and universally applicable manner
and traits that are deemed necessary (AACTE, 2010).
in coping with today’s world. - 7 Survival Skills according to Tony
- Can be applied in academics and Wagner (2010)
educational subjects throughout a 1. Critical thinking and problem-
student’s life. solving;
- May include the following: 2. Collaboration across networks
1. Critical thinking, problem- and leading by influence;
solving, reasoning, analysis, 3. Agility and adaptability;
interpretation, synthesizing 4. Initiative and entrepreneurialism;
information; 5. Effective oral and written
2. Research skills and practices, communication;
interrogative questioning; 6. Accessing and analyzing
3. Creativity, artistry, curiosity, information; and
imagination, innovation, 7. Curiosity and imagination
personal expression;
4. Perseverance, self-direction,
planning, self-discipline, Sets of 21st Century Skills
adaptability, initiative;
5. Oral and written communication,
public speaking and presenting, Learning and Innovation Skills
listening;
6. Leadership, teamwork, A. Critical Thinking and Problem
collaboration, cooperation, Solving
facility in using virtual 1. Work together effectively in a
workspaces; team.
7. ICT literacy, media and internet 2. Reason effectively.
literacy, data interpretation and 3. Make judgments and decisions.
analysis, computer 4. Solve problems.
programming; B. Communication
8. Civic, ethical, and social justice 1. Communicate clearly.
literacy; C. Collaboration
9. Economic and financial literacy, 1. Work together effectively in a
entrepreneurialism; team.
10. Global awareness, multicultural D. Creativity and Innovation
literacy, humanitarianism; 1. Think creatively.
11. Scientific literacy and reasoning, 2. Work creatively with others.
the scientific method; 3. Implement innovations.
12. Environmental and conservation
literacy, ecosystem
understanding; and Information, Media, and Technology
13. Health and wellness literacy, Skills
including nutrition, diet, The life within the 21st Century is marked by
exercise, and public health and the following:
safety.
1. Access to abundant information;
2. Rapid changes in technology tools;
Framework for 21st Century and
3. The ability to collaborate and make
This concept encompasses a wide array of a individual contributions on an
body of knowledge and skills that have to be unprecedented scale.
categorized.
The following skills are:
A. Information Literacy
21st Century Skills 1. Access and evaluate information.
- Grounded on the belief that students 2. Use and manage information,
must be educated in a more relevant B. Media Literacy
1. Analyze media.
 2. Create media products.
C. Technology Literacy
1. Apply technology effectively.
D. Life and Career Skills
1. Flexibility and adaptability.
2. Initiative and self-direction.
3. Social and cross-cultural skills.
4. Productivity and accountability.
5. Leadership and responsibility.

Integrating 21st Century Skills in

Teaching-Learning Process

The following are the critical systems that

ensure 21st Century Skills mastery:
1. 21st Century Standards
- Focus on 21st century skills,
knowledge, and expertise while
building across and among core
subjects and 21st century
interdisciplinary themes.
- Emphasize deep understanding.
- Use real world data and allow for
multiple measures of mastery.
2. Assessment of 21st Century Skills
- Supports a balanced and high-quality
standardized testing and emphasizes
useful feedback.
- Requires balance between
technology -enhanced, formative,
and summative assessments.
- Enables student work portfolio
development and enables a balanced
portfolio of measures in assessing
educational system effectiveness.
3. 21st Century Curriculum and
Instruction
- Encourages the integration of 21st
century skills in core subjects and
overall learning.
4. The 21st Century Professional
Development
- Highlights the ways teachers can
seize opportunities for the
st
integration of 21 century skills in
the classroom.
5. The 21st Century Learning
Environments
- Create learning practices that support
the teaching and learning of 21st
century skills.