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Building and Enhancing New Literacies Across the Curriculum

Module 2
Introduction of key Concepts
A. Features of 21st Century Teaching and Learning
B. Critical Attributes of the 21st Century Education

I-Introduction / Rationale
Recent technological advances have affected many areas of our lives, including the way we
communicate, collaborate, learn, and, of course, teach. Teaching in the 21st century is an altogether different
phenomenon; never before could learning be happening the way it is now—everywhere, all the time, on any
possible topic, supporting any possible learning style or preference. Education today is more than just giving
lessons and assignments. It is now a two-way process where both the student and the teacher learn from each
other side by side. A lot of resources are available to help achieve this goal. What’s important is that we remain
focused and push through our desire to make this world a better place, starting with the people who live in it.
The world of teachers and students is expected to continue to change dramatically throughout the 21st
century and beyond. There is a paradigm shift in the way teaching and learning is delivered. As a 21st century
teacher, you need to develop essential knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values to be able to cope with these
changes and to help your students address them as well.
II- Learning Objective

• compare the basic concepts of traditional and 21st century literacies and skills; and
• explain the features and critical attributes of the 21st century literacies.
III- Content
Features of 21st Century Teaching and Learning
1. Learner- cantered classroom and personalized instruction
• Students have access to any information possible.
• Students have different personalities, goals, and needs, and offering personalized instruction is not just
possible but desirable.
2. Students as producers
• Students have the latest and greatest tools
• Students can produce beautiful and creative blogs, movies, or digital stories that they feel proud of and
share with others.
3. Learn new technologies:
• Students are offered new technology to have one’s own hands-on experience and expertise on modern
skills and developmental learning tools.
4. Go Global
• Modern tools are used to make it possible to learn about other countries and people first-hand.
• Learning languages, cultures, and communication skills by actually talking to people from other parts of
the world.
5. Go Digital
• Sharing links and offering digital discussions as opposed to a constant paper flow allows students to
access and share class resources in a more organized fashion.
6. Collaborate
• Technology allows collaboration between teachers and students. Creating digital resources,
presentations, and projects together with other educators and students makes classroom activities
resemble the real world

7. Project-based learning
• Students develop their own driving questions, conduct research, contact experts, and create final projects
to share, all using devices already in their hands.

• Nowadays, knowledge is no longer distinctly divided into clear-cut learning chunks or separate subjects.
• Education in the 21st century is characterized by linkages among various subject areas in an integrated
manner. The new approach promotes the utilization of learning from various disciplines.
• This critical attribute implies that teachers need to review the school curriculum and identify strategies
or ways on how different subjects can be effectively linked to enhance the learning experiences of
students.
• Nowadays, knowledge is no longer distinctly divided into clear-cut learning chunks or separate subjects.
• Education in the 21st century is characterized by linkages among various subject areas in an integrated
manner. The new approach promotes the utilization of learning from various disciplines.
• Nowadays, knowledge is no longer distinctly divided into clear-cut learning chunks or separate subjects.
• Education in the 21st century is characterized by linkages among various subject areas in an integrated
manner. The new approach promotes the utilization of learning from various disciplines.
• This critical attribute implies that teachers need to review the school curriculum and identify strategies
or ways on how different subjects can be effectively linked to enhance the learning experiences of
students. For example, music and algebra can be linked together in the discussion of fractions. The
time signature of music uses fractions; as such, you, as a good teacher, can certainly apply this to both
your music or math classes.

• Education in the 21st century aims to produce global citizens by exposing students to the concerns of the
region and other countries. They are encouraged to react and respond to issues as part of their roles as
global citizens.
• This critical attribute implies that teachers need to include current global issues/concerns, such as peace
and respect for cultural diversity, climate change, and global warming, in classroom discussions.
• Education in the 21st century subscribes to the belief that learning does not only happen inside the
school and during one’s schooling years. Learning can take place anywhere, anytime, regardless of
one’s age.
• This means that teachers should facilitate students’ acquisition of KSAVs that go beyond academics.
Learning should take place not only for the purpose of passing exams, but also for transferring
knowledge to real life situations.
• The curriculum should be planned in such a way that the students will continue to learn even outside the
school’s portals.

• Education in the 21st century is focused on students as learners. It is tailor-fit to address the individual
learning needs of each student. Differentiated instruction is common in 21st century classrooms, where
diverse student factors are taken into account when planning and delivering instruction.
• You, as a teacher, can structure learning environments that address the variety of learning styles,
interests, needs, and abilities found in your classroom.
• This critical attribute implies that teachers should act as facilitators of learning — not as “sages on the
stage” but as “guides on the side.” Learners should be given opportunities to discover new knowledge,
learn with one another, and create their own learnings.
• Education in the 21st century promotes the skills needed to be productive members of today’s society. It
is not enough for students to learn the basic skills of reading, writing, and numeracy, but should develop
in themselves skills that would help them cope with life and work in 21st century communities.
• These skills include, among others, critical and creative thinking skills, problem solving and decision
making, and ICT literacy and skills. As a teacher, you are expected to possess these 21st century skills
before you can help your students develop these skills.

• Among the critical attributes of 21st century education is the emphasis on data, information, and
evidence-based decision making. It relies heavily on student-driven activities to encourage active
learning.
• This implies that teachers of the 21st century need to be knowledgeable about research to guide their
students’ learning through self-directed activities, such as learning projects within and outside their
classrooms.
• Investigatory projects showcased in many science fairs across Southeast Asia and in the world are
examples of research-based activities of students.
 • Education in the 21st century is meaningful because it is rooted in real life day-to-day activities of
learners. It can be applied to the realities of the present and includes what students need to develop to
enable them to become productive members of the 21st century.
• This critical attribute implies that topics are taught using current and relevant information and linked to
real-life situations and context.
• As a 21st century teacher, you need to be updated on the current trends, developments, and issues in
your school, community, and in the world, so that your teaching will be relevant to the lives of your
students
• Newspapers, TV and radio news, and the internet are good sources of relevant and up-to-date
information that you can access.

IV- Self Test:

1. Education today is now a two-way process where both ___________learn from each other side by side.

A. student and parent

B. student and teacher
C. student and guardian
D. student and supervisors
2. Students have access to any information possible in a __________ classroom.
A. information cantered
B. learner cantered
C. activity cantered
D. project cantered
3. _________are used to make it possible to learn about other countries and people first-hand.
A. traditional materials
B. encyclopaedia
C. atlas
D. modern tools
4. Students develop their own driving questions, conduct research, contact experts in ____________.
A. project-based learning
B. home-based learning
C. online learning
D. actual learning
5. ______________as opposed to a constant paper flow allows students to access and share class resources in a
more organized fashion.
A. Sharing websites and offering digital discussions
B. Downloading links and giving comments
C. Sharing links and offering digital discussions
D. None of the above
V- Learning Activity
INSTRUCTION: Compare the basic concepts of traditional and 21st century literacies and skills with the use
of Venn Diagram
Basic concepts of traditional literacies 21st century literacies and skill

VI. Assessment / Reflection

B. Make a reflection on simplified ideas, information showing the attributes of 21st literacies visually
presented using graphic organizer.
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VII. Feedback:
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VIII. Post -Test

Test on: Features of 21st Century Teaching and Learning and Critical Attributes of the 21st Century
Education
1. A 21st century teacher, needs to develop the following to be able to cope with changes and help
students address them as well.
A. knowledge, training, practice, and project
B. knowledge, training, attributes, and character
C. knowledge, training, attributes, and values
D. knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values
2. A student can produce the following as a 21st Century learner.
A. printed books and poems
B. blogs, movies, or digital stories
C. Stage plays and musical recitals
D. All of the above
3. _________ allows collaboration between teachers and students. .
A. video conference
B. technology
C. interest
D. Special skills
4. The world of teachers and students is expected to _________dramatically throughout the 21st century and
beyond.
A. continue to change
B. remains unchanged
C. lead back to previous learning
D. none of the above
5. Education in the 21st century is characterized by ___________________in an integrated manner.
A. main curriculum program
B. subject cantered areas
C. linkages among various subject areas
D. none of the above
6. This critical attribute implies that teachers need to review the school curriculum and identify strategies or
ways on how different subjects can be effectively linked to enhance the learning experiences of students.
A. Technology and Multimedia
B. Integrated and Interdisciplinary
C. Global Classroom
D. 21st Century Skills
7. Education in the 21st century use the following to improve teaching and learning activities.
A. ICT and Multimedia
B. Integrated and Interdisciplinary
C. Global Classroom
D. 21st Century Skills
8. The ability to find, evaluate, utilize, and create information using technologies and multimedia, or digital
technology in general.
A. ICT and Multimedia
B. Integrated and Interdisciplinary
C. Digital Literacy
D. 21st Century Skills
9. _______ is needed for teacher-users as part of a bigger “technology plan.”
A. Practice
B. Reading
C. Research
D. Training
10. Education in the 21st century aims to produce global citizens by: exposing students to the concerns of the
region and other countries.
A. Reading historical books
B. limiting internet access
C. exposing students to the concerns of the region and other countries
D. none of the above
11. This critical attribute implies that teachers need to include current global issues/concerns in classroom
discussions.
A. ICT and Multimedia
B. Global Classroom
C. 21st Century Skills
D. Integrated and Interdisciplinary
12. Current global issues/concerns include the following: such as peace and respect for cultural diversity,
climate change, and global warming.
A. climate change
B. global warming
C. peace and respect for cultural diversity
D. all of the above
13. Education in the 21st century subscribes to the belief that learning does not only happen inside the school
and during one’s schooling years. It can take place anywhere, anytime, regardless of one’s age.
A. Technology and Multimedia
B. Global Classroom
C. 21st Century Skills
D. Creating/Adapting to Constant Personal and Social Change, and Lifelong Learning
14. Learning should take place not only for the purpose of passing exams, but also for___________.
A. getting high grades
B. submitting reports
C. transferring knowledge to real life situations
D. completing school requirements
15. It is tailor-fit to address the individual learning needs of each student.
A. ICT and Multimedia
B. Global Classroom
C. 21st Century Skills
D. Student-cantered
16. Education in the 21st century promotes the skills needed to be productive members of today’s society.
A. ICT and Multimedia
B. Global Classroom
C. 21st Century Skills
D. Student-cantered
17. Among the critical attributes of 21st century education is the emphasis on data, information, and evidence-
based decision making. It relies heavily on student-driven activities to encourage active learning.
A. Project-Based and Research-Driven
B. Global Classroom
C. 21st Century Skills
D. Student-cantered
18. Investigatory projects showcased in many science fairs across Southeast Asia and in the world are examples
of this 21 Century attribute.
A. Technology and Multimedia
B. Global Classroom
C. 21st Century Skills
D. Project-Based and Research-Driven
19. This critical attribute implies that topics are taught using current and relevant information and linked to
actual situations and context.
A. Technology and Multimedia
B. Global Classroom
C. Relevant, Rigorous and Real-world
D. Project-Based and Research-Driven
20. Newspapers, TV and radio news, and the internet are The following are good sources of relevant and up-to-
information that you can access.
A. Newspapers
B. TV and radio news
C. Internet
D. All of the above
IX-References:
• https://www.edutopia.org/discussion/15-characteristics-21st-century-teacher
• https://blog.kamiapp.com/characteristics-of-21st-century-learners/
• http://iflex.innotech.org/GURO21/module1/l1_5.html