21st century Classroom 3rd Entry

The lesson that I have learn by implementing of this lesson plan is 21st century learners must master more than the core curriculum to succeed in secondary and post secondary institutions, as well as in the workplace. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a national organization advocating for 21st century readiness for every student, explains the outcomes of this transformation with four C’s which are  Critical thinking, Creativity, Communication, and Collaboration. As students develop the four C’s, we have discovered that effective application of these vital skills in a technology-infused life and workplace requires acquiring them in a technology-infused learning environment. This environment calls for two elements, we must increasingly put technology into the hands of students and must trust them with more progressive technology use. It is no longer sufficient for students to have less access to technological tools than the teacher, nor is it enough for any one suite of software to serve as the zenith for technology mastery. For student performance to approximate student potential, students need access to a constantly evolving array of technological tools and activities that demand problem-solving, decision-making, teamwork, and innovation.

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Discovery and Exploration become a strategy. In technology-infused discovery activities, Internet research, virtual manipulatives, and multimedia resources allow students to explore unanswered questions. For example, refers to the videos that we created instead of beginning a lesson on biological issues or problems that students learned, they can go to the actual lab from any department that related with the topics by lead a site visit for searching information. Exploring as a real scientist would, students try to understand, analyse, and evaluate their experience to answer the posed question. Discovery activities give students real-world, problem-solving experience and ownership over their learning, as well as allow them to bring their observations into the subsequent lesson, discussion, or creation activity as prior knowledge.

Furthermore, Creation and Design will be the best part of strategy in 21^st century learning. Likewise, creation activities provide students the ability to develop creativity and problem-solving skills by displaying their mastery in profound and meaningful ways. I have integrate the use of technology for student-created digital media into all areas of curriculum for this topic which are describing the topic using multimedia platform such as video, visual graphic, slideshow and so on. Then, students follow the instruction given via E-mail and searching their information needed using any media that link with internet network. After that, First group develop PowerPoint presentations and video themselves for “My Time to Teach” projects to share with the class. Other group, create a Q&A session using Kahoot web application. The projects created are excellent tools for formative and summative assessment. Yet more than that, through creation activities, students design products that make them active partners in constructing learning experiences in the classroom and beyond. In demonstrating their skills and knowledge, they become more confident in their own abilities and their own voices. Other strategy is “A Device for Every Person”. With potential fingertip access to such incredible student opportunities on the line, principals and teachers have a great responsibility to innovatively harness the power of technological resources. Ideally, to maximize these opportunities, every student needs direct access to technology on a daily basis. This means moving away from the days of visiting the computer lab toward a one-to-one initiative in the classroom.

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As teachers, we keep talking about the 21st century skills our students need to acquire. One day soon, I trust someone will come up with a new way to reference these skills that does not connect them to the century in which we live. We need to go beyond talking about these skills and move towards ensuring that our students actually possess them before they graduate. When the learners that we teach go out into the world, they will navigate a world that looks very different than the one in which we who are adults grew up. Today’s young people will be the makers of the future, and they will mould and shape it into something we can only imagine right now.

The problems that I have faced with 21st Century learning is about preparing teachers to actively engage students to use their learning and innovation skills through digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem solving. Students are grasping these skills through collaboration and inquiry-based learning using technology that will encourage children to learn. The purpose of using technology is to prepare students for what lies ahead after graduation in our technological driven society. Teachers are no longer the main source for information but only the filter. Teachers now are leading students to learn how to understand and validate the information that they are being bombarded on the internet with Facebook, Twitter, Skype, cell phones, You Tube, newspaper, television and so on. Students are encouraged to ask questions and then shown how to find the solutions to their queries by actively participating in activities that incorporate technology.