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COLLEGE OF DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION
EDUC 4
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2A
Building and Enhancing New
Literacies Across the curriculum
21st Century Education
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Building and Enhancing New Literacies
Across the curriculum
21st Century Education
A. The Teacher as a Curricularist
Answer the following:
1. Compare and contrast the Relevance of 21 st Century Education from 21st skills
categories.
Every era has its own set of demands for its people. The 21st century is
an era of great opportunities and innovations, a time that caused a significant shift in
the educational system. Survival strategies are not enough to survive in this world.
Children must learn skills for them to be able to solve real-life challenges. There is a
significant transformation in education from traditional teaching and learning, a shift
to 21st-century education that will necessarily involve special skills. Schools now will
prepare them to master every aspect of life, from life skills to digital skills, and reach
their fullest potential.
The 21st Century Education is an education that gives students the
knowledge and skills they need to grow and succeed in today's world. A 21st-century
education responds to the fast-changing economic, technological, and societal
developments that reflect the changing world. Schools make a new way of designing
curriculums, a curriculum for life that would engage students with human
development and adapt to the changes. Teachers will not only provide information.
Teachers will also facilitate learning and assist students in understanding,
experiencing, and applying their knowledge.
21st Century Skills are essential skills for success in today's world. These
skills include learning and innovation skills, information media and technology skills,
and life and career skills. Students must learn such skills while in school to succeed
in their professions in the future. As future educators, we should then realize that this
will help us improve our skills, attitudes, and trust in ourselves. Since schools have
shifted to a better educational system, we, as pre-service teachers, are expected to
play an active role in developing and organizing high-quality content and instruction
for our students.
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21st Century Education
PRE-COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT
1. What are the critical attributes of 21st Century education? Explain them.
2. Describe a 21st Century teacher and discuss some innovative tools for learning.
3. Explain how you can integrate 21 st century education in the curriculum.
ANSWERS:
1. To meet the demands of 21st-century education, educational institutions must address
eight critical characteristics.
First, Integrated and Interdisciplinary. This simply means bridging
connections between academic and practical knowledge. This method can help students
become more aware of the meaningful connections that exist between different subject
areas.
Second, Technologies and Multimedia. ICT in the classroom provides students
with access to countless online resources and provides educators with a variety of tools
to facilitate learning and assist their students in developing a better understanding of the
material.
Third, Global Classrooms. Global classrooms expose students to international
and multicultural experiences, which improves their academic performance. It helps to
raise awareness about a variety of subjects while also nurturing the student's overall
personality.
Fourth, Creating/Adapting to Constant Personal and Social Change and
Lifelong Learning. Schools should recognize that humans have a natural desire to
explore, learn and grow. Students should be encouraged to focus on the ideas and goals
that inspire and motivate them. Learning is beyond the classroom, we should continue
learning to improve our own quality of life and sense of self-worth.
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Fifth, Student-Centered. Through a student-centered instructional approach,
students are given responsibility and independence. Cooperative learning has replaced
traditional classroom instruction as the new standard. This helps in the development of
characteristics of lifelong learners such as motivation, self-evaluation and time
management.
Sixth, 21st Century Skills. To learn 21st-century skills are very important if we
want to prepare our future generation for success in school, work, and life. They not only
provide a basis for successful classroom learning, but they also ensure students' and
teachers’ ability to succeed in a world where change is constant and learning never stops.
Seventh, Project-Based and Research- Driven. Students initiate their own
learning through inquiry and work collaboratively to conduct research and create projects
that reflect their knowledge. A project-based approach to learning can assist educators in
engaging students in deep thinking about content while also teaching critical thinking,
communication, and collaboration skills.
Eight, Relevant, Rigorous and Real World. Relevance helps students
understand the importance of what they are learning, and rigor ensures that they are
challenged to develop advanced skills and knowledge. These are also important for equity
because they ensure that all students have access to high-level content and skills.
Relevance in education can help students realize the value of all knowledge.
2. A 21st Century teacher and some innovative tools for learning.
21st Century Teacher
21st Century education implies challenges among teachers in the way they need
to embrace technological advancements and instructional innovations. Teachers should
be multiliterate, multispecialist, multiskilled, self- directed, lifelong learners,
flexible, creative problem solver, critical thinker, emotionally intelligent and
passionate for excellent teaching. Teachers, as the primarily organizers of 21st century
education, must be intensively trained in these skills to prepare them for their future
professional career roles.
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21st Century Innovative Tools
The 21st Century is a time of rapid change, and while the brain itself does not
change (much), the tools we use to feed it do. This puts the 21st-century teacher in a
critical position because they have to master constantly evolving technology and digital
learning tools—tools that their students use every day.
The effective use of digital learning tools in the classroom can boost student
engagement, support teachers in enhancing lesson plans, and empower personalized
learning. It also helps students develop important 21st-century skills. Cloud-based
learning software, apps, blogs or discussion boards, digital whiteboards, and
other interactive online tools for students and teachers are some examples of 21st
Century Innovative Tools.
Another example is Google + Communities. Cloud-based communities can
be as open or closed as you prefer and are accessible through any smartphone or
mobile device. In a social media setting, educators can share documents, publish
videos, socialize project-based learning artifacts, communicate with colleagues, send
messages, participate in threaded discussions, and interact with families and community
members. Teachers can also open or close groups, giving them control over the
transparency of data and interaction.
One more example is YouTube. YouTube Channels, by far the most consistently
underappreciated digital learning tool we see, have transformed YouTube into a serious
distribution tool for any type of content—academic or not. In such a way that important
academic concepts like blended learning and the Khan Academy are literally built
around it. YouTube is capable of providing self-directed learning, educational classroom
discussions, full-on test, and accurate project-based learning. YouTube is really a great
example and it deserves a spot in any 21st-century classroom.
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3. Integration of 21st century education in the curriculum.
The integration of 21st-century skills must be practiced continuously across standards
and assessments, learning environments, instructions, and the curriculum. The
curriculum emphasizes team-based projects in which groups solve problems by
maximizing each individual's strengths. This will expose students to new ideas and
opposing viewpoints while demonstrating the power of the collective mind.
Curriculums should be enhanced and modified to meet the needs of 21st-century
learners. Educators must keep up with the latest developments and current trends to
provide the most up-to-date education for their students. Schools can try to integrate
21st-century education into their curriculum by using technology in the classroom,
teaching critical thinking skills, and providing more project-based learning experiences.
Moreover, schools should emphasize the importance of teaching students skills that
will be useful in today's world.
Another approach to integrating 21st-century education into the curriculum is to
highlight critical thinking and problem-solving abilities. Teachers can support students
in developing these skills by requiring them to analyze and critique current events,
debate important topics, and solve real-world problems. Teachers could also start
encouraging students to be self-directed learners by giving opportunities for them to
research and explore topics of interest to them. Students develop the capacity to be
self-directed learners who can think critically about their education when they are given
more independence over what they learn and how they approach a topic. As a result,
students will learn 21st-century skills which will help them succeed in the future.
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21st Century Skills Categories
PRE-COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT
1. Discuss the relevance of Information Technology, Media Literacy, Technology
Literacy and Life and Career Skills.
2. Describe the categories of 21s Century skills.
3. How can the attainment of 21st century skill contributed to the realization of
educational goals?
4. How can you integrate 21st Century skills in the teaching-learning process?
1. Relevance of Information Technology, Media Literacy, Technology Literacy and Life
and Career Skills.
For students to succeed in today's modern world, these 21st-century skills
must be taught in school. The concept of 21st Century skills is based on the belief
that students must be educated in a more relevant, useful, in-demand, and universityrelevant manner. The concept is simple: students must be taught different skills and
reflect on the specific demands that will be placed on them in a complex, competitive,
knowledge-based, information-age, and technology-driven society.
Information Media Literacy enables people to show and make intelligent
decisions as users of information and media, as well as to become skilled creators
and producers of information and media communications in their own right. Teaching
media literacy helps students learn skills that will enable them to think critically
concerning media. It also enhances 21st-century skills as well as increasing digital
literacy through interaction with media, information, and technology.
It encourages inclusion and the growth of digital literacy skills. It extends
learning beyond the text - and beyond the four walls of the classroom. Students and
teachers are eventually exposed to new international communities. As a result, global
awareness is promoted, which is an essential component of a 21st-century education.
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2. Categories of 21st Century Skills
The skills of the 21st century are categorized into different skills of desired outcomes.
Firstly, Learning and Innovation Skills. These are valuable skills because
they allow educators and learners to solve problems and advance their knowledge.
Investing in their own innovation abilities can help them become a competitive
candidate for top positions and broaden their horizons.
Secondly, Information, Media, and Technology Skills. These skills are
very relevant. In schools and colleges, information and communication technology
(ICT) gives learners with interactive and collaborative, learning techniques which
increase their independence and participation in the learning process while also
increasing their levels of technological competence and computer skills.
Thirdly, Life and Career Skills. These skills are needed for being a 21st
Century learner or educator. Today’s modern life and work settings require more than
just critical thinking and content knowledge. Students must focus their efforts on
developing better life and career skills to explore the complicated work and social
environments of the globally competitive digital world.
3. Attainment of 21st century skills and its contribution to the realization of educational
goals
This is the century to put all of your educational studies to use because there
are opportunities in every field. Furthermore, because there are so many
opportunities in this century, we can shift our education system to a skill-based
system. Education in life skills enables an individual to improve the knowledge,
develop values, and views, implying that the individual understands when and how to
perform a task. Leadership, teamwork, collaboration, cooperation and all the other
literacies mentioned above are useful skills that can be contributed in the 21 st century
education.
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4. Integration of 21st Century skills in the teaching-learning process
21st-century education identifies opportunities for teachers to incorporate
21st-century skills, tools, and teaching strategies into their classroom practice and
assists them in determining which activities to replace or emphasize. It helps teachers
recognize their students' learning styles, intelligences, strengths, and weaknesses.
This assists teacher in developing their abilities to reach out to diverse students and
create environments that support differentiated teaching and learning.
21st-century learning fosters practices that enable educators to collaborate,
share best practices, and integrate 21st-century skills into classroom practice. It allows
students to learn in relevant, real-world contexts in the twenty-first century. Teachers
are successfully complementing content with technology and developing the ability to
use technology creatively to meet specific needs. To evaluate student performance,
educators employ a variety of assessment strategies.
Teachers in the twenty-first century actively participate in learning
communities, utilizing school expertise through coaching, mentoring, knowledgesharing, and team teaching. They serve as mentors and peer coaches to other
educators. They employ a variety of strategies to foster inclusive teaching and learning
environments.
Most importantly, teachers seek out opportunities for continuous learning and
embrace career-long learning, creating a beneficial learning environment in which
students can freely express themselves and explore their skills and potential.
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New Literacies, Functional
Literacy and Multi- Literacy
PRE-COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT
1. Discuss new literacies and their impact on the teaching-learning process.
2. Describe a multi-literate teacher.
3. Define functional literacy.
1. New literacies and their impact on the teaching-learning process.
Literacy has changed and evolved through time based on societal needs. New
literacies are not limited to knowing how to read and write; they are also about applying
knowledge for specific purposes in specific contexts. These new literacies create
opportunities for students to understand and apply new knowledge and skills while
experimenting with different teaching and learning tools.
The curriculum for the twenty-first century emphasizes seven new literacies.
Namely: Multicultural, Social, Media, Financial, Digital, Ecological and Creative
Literacy. In today's schools, students should learn the most relevant, practical, and indemand skills that reflect the specific demands of this complex, competitive, and
technologically driven society. Teachers may advocate for the teaching of crossdisciplinary skills, whereas schools may require 21st-century skills in both the instructional
and assessment processes. Schools and teachers may use educational approaches
designed to speed up or ease the acquisition of cross-disciplinary skills.
Integration of new literacies and teaching multiliteracies open up new possibilities
for future teachers and learners. It can assist students in ensuring that all students have
equal access to learning. As a result, students learn to collaborate by sharing their ideas
with others in online spaces where they can engage in various modes of learning. As a
result of this new literacy integration in the curriculum for teacher education, students will
become more confident and knowledgeable in learning through participatory and
collaborative practices.
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Students must become competent in the new literacies of the 21st
century. Schools must assist teachers by providing professional development
and the latest technology for use in the classroom. The success of new literacies
relies on critical thinking and reflection. Teachers should have strong technical
skills that can provide more beneficial instruction to help students seek
information and gain a deeper understanding of today's modern complex world.
2.
Multi-literate Teacher
An effective multiliterate teacher uses a diverse approach to guide
students in understanding how to access, evaluate, synthesize, and contribute
meaningfully to society. Multiliterate teachers encourage students to try new
learning methods and provide them with consistent access to technology.
Educators should not only understand the tools itself, but also the
methods and strategies for using them. Many teachers become focused on the
tool itself, rather than seeing these technologies as a form of communication, a
portal used t collaborate and motivate learners. Life is interconnected but this
fact is usually neglected.
Nevertheless, multiliterate teachers are aware of the risks associated
with technology. Teachers should spend time thinking about giving students
power tools without contemplating how to use them in the safest way possible
while still providing the most learning and the most powerful results. Similarly,
no educator would set up a classroom without first considering how the
curriculum learning objectives would be integrated with the activity and how the
cooperating learning groups would be arranged. Before providing the
information to the students, a 21st Century teacher must first use these tools for
their own self-improvement. We cannot offer anything that we do not have.
Educators in the 21st century must learn how to manage a large amount
of data available. They must shift their focus away from content memorization
and more towards production and distribution - making available what is most
applicable as pieces for the design and concepts of content and ideas. Sort,
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organize, chunk, and provide pieces of information for students to use to build
knowledge around the objectives we are intending to teach. We should allow
them to build and grow together.
Teachers in the 21st century must make fundamental changes in their
thinking and content delivery. Educational leaders in the 21st century must have
a clear understanding of the evolving learning framework demanded by living in
the digital age. The 21st century has arrived, and these kids can't wait. It is time
for teachers to begin using these tools as professionals, for critical engagement
with content and establishing collaborative partnerships in our student's
education and school reform.
3. Functional Literacy
Functional literacy's simple meaning is to enhance and develop
knowledge and skills and use them in real life. It educates people on the
essential skills they need to find work and manage their daily lives. However,
functional literacy is about much more than just getting a job. It is also about
preserving skills that our entire society requires to function. We will not have
functioning businesses, governments, or communities unless we have
individuals with mathematical knowledge, reading and writing skills, or analytical
abilities. Functional literacy is essential to the operation of our high-tech society.
In other words, “a functional society requires functional literacy".
Functional literacy is mainly concerned with skills or applied knowledge
and is highly relevant to today’s complex, technological society. Thus, functional
literacy programs should be implemented to focus on various job skills and
development aspects. For example in agricultural, health, industry, and
technical-vocational programs. Furthermore, literacy must be an integral part of
each country's overall educational system and plan. Literacy programs must
teach not only reading and writing skills but also professional and technical
knowledge, resulting in increased participation of individuals for the benefit of
their own and our nation.
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