What is al the fuss about 21st. C teaching/strategies?

By: Ma Ed. Cecilia Rosas DelgadoDirectora del Centro de Idiomas del IPNM

English Coordinator INNOVA Schools

Think pair share

• What´s all the fuss about the 21st century, 21st century education, and 21st century skills?

What has changed?• The Internet revolution

Each day there are: 3 million new web pages15 million instant

messages25 million e-mail

messagesThe web is doubling its

size every 100 days80% of the sites that will

exist a year from now don´t exist today.

• Age of info whelmMore data was produced

in the last 50 years than in the last 5000 years

More than 3000 books are published daily

Age of disposable information

New technical information dubles every 2 weeks.

We are products of our environments

Baby Boomers

TV generation Type writers Memos

Generation X

Video Games Computers E-mail

Digital Natives

The Web Mobile

devices IM Text

messaging Online

communities

• List 3 unique characteristics of the Digital Natives

• Describe what you do to meet their needs

Think pair share

Who are our students?

Who are our students?

Born in or after 1992 Ctrl + Alt + Del is as basic as ABC Busy with extracurricular activities Fascination for new technologies Computers have always fit in their backpacks Photographs have always been processed in an hour or less

The Student of the New Century

Three Question Exercise

1. What will the world be like 20 years from now?

2. What skills will students need to be successful in that world?

3. What would learning look like if it was designed around your answers?

21st century learning

# of Jobs

Job Skill

Teaching

Model

Assessment

Model

20th Century

1 - 2 Jobs

Mastery of One Field

Subject Matter

Mastery

Subject Matter

Mastery

21st Century

10 - 15 Jobs

Flexibility and Adaptability

Integration of 21stCentury Skills intoSubject Matter MasteryIntegration of 21stCentury Skills intoSubject Matter Mastery

21ST CENTURY SKILLS DEFINED

LEARNING & INNOVATION• Creativity & Innovation• Critical Thinking & Problem-

solving• Communication & Collaboration

INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY• Information Literacy• Media Literacy• ICT Literacy

LIFE & CAREER• Flexibility & Adaptability• Initiative & Self-direction• Social & Cross-cultural Skills• Productivity & Accountability• Leadership & Responsibility

students

Why are 21st century skills important?

Today’s education faces irrelevance unless we bridge the gap between how students

live and how students learn.

workforce

why are 21st century skills important?

“The average person will change jobs nine times by the time he or she is 32.”Elaine Chao,

U.S. Secretary of Labor

20th Century Learning

Teacher-directedDirect InstructionKnowledgeContentBasic SkillsTheoryCurriculumIndividualClassroomSummative AssessedLearning for School

21st Century Learning

Teacher-directedDirect InstructionKnowledgeContentBasic SkillsTheoryCurriculumIndividualClassroomSummative AssessmentsLearning for School

Learner-centeredCollaborative InstructionSkillsProcessHigher-order ThinkingPracticeLife SkillsGroupCommunityFormative EvaluationsLearning for Life

A BetterA Better BalanceBalance

Skills required by employers rated as important, according to a recent survey:

The right academic qualifications

The ability to appreciate an alternative point of view

Communication and the ability to work in teams

The ability to grasp complex information

27%

42%

62%

68%

Source: GRADdirect, 2008

What ‘skills’ are required outside the classroom?

* Information from a survey made to employers

Employers who feel that graduates lack ‘soft skills’,

including the ability to communicate effectively: 55%

Also highlighted as concerns are an employee’s

ability to: • manage their own learning• solve problems• be motivated

Graduate Recruitment Survey 2008, Association of Graduate Recruiters

lifeSkills: the big 5- Self direction and learning

- Organization and planning

- Collaboration

- Information and research

- Thinking and problem solving* These are the skills that empower our students to succeed in school/university and as professionals.

lifeSkills

Self-direction & Learning

understanding

your learning style

making personal change

making a learningplan

becoming moreself-awaredeveloping cultural

awareness

developing yourmemory

beingassertive

20th Century Curriculum Model

Core SubjectsCore Subjects

Assessment

21st Century Curriculum Model

Teaching Core Subjects Spanish Reading of Language

Arts Mathematics Science English Civics

Government Economics Art History Geography

Teaching 21st Century Content

Global Awareness Financial, economic

and, business literacy Civic literacy

• Learn academic content through real world examples.

• Learning must be relevant engaging and meaningful to their lives.

• Learning must expand beyond classroom walls.

Whithin a 21st Century Context

Using 21st century learning Skills

• Information and communication skills

• Thinking and problem solving skills

• Interpersonal and self-directional skills The challenge now is to incorporate thinking skills into the

classroom deliberatelly, strategically and broadely

With 21st century toolsIn a digital world students need to learn to use the tools to master the learning skills that are essencial to everyday life and workplace productivity. This proficiency is known as ICT literacy

Skilled 21st century citizens should be proficient in ICT (Information and

Communications Technology)

The interest, attitude and ability of individuals to

appropriately use digital technology and

communication tools to access, manage,

integrate and evaluate information, construct new knowledge and

communicate with others in order to participate effectively in society.