21ST CENTURY LEARNING

Joy Taylor
Education 520: Curriculum Design and Evaluation
April 19, 2015
Professor Crenshaw
Concordia University Irvine
School of Education

Agenda

Icebreaker
21st Century Learning
Implementing Curriculum
Teaching
Student Learning
Methods of Assessment
Activity: Team Dream
Homework-Educator Assessment

Icebreaker
As you are seated with faculty members from
different content areas, colleagues you may not know
as well as those from your own department, take ten
minutes to share with one another the Pinterest
folder labeled Me in a Nutshell that you created
which should consist of ten pins that help describe
who you are.

This is a world in which a very high level of

preparation in reading, writing, speaking,
mathematics, science, literature, history, and the
arts will be an indispensable foundation for
everything that comes after for most members of
the workforce. It is a world in which comfort with
ideas and abstractions is the passport to a good job,
in which creativity and innovation are the key to
the good life, in which high levels of education-a
very different kind of education than most of us
have hadare going to be the only security there
is.
Tough Choices or Tough Times, the New Commission on the Skills of the American
Workforce, National Center on Education and the Economy, 2007

21st Century Learning

To participate in succeed in todays global
community students must master both
The 3 Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic
AND
The 4 Cs: creativity, critical-thinking,
communication and collaboration.

Framework for 21st Century Learning

20th Century

Then and Now

Curriculum
Time-Slotted
vs
One-size-fits-all
Competitive
Classroom
Text-based
Summative Tests
Learning for School

vs
vs
vs
vs
vs
vs
vs

21st Century
Projects
On-demand
Personalized
Collaborative
Global Community
Web-based
Formal Evaluations
Learning for Life

21st Century Curriculum

We must foster ways for

Thinking critically and making judgments about the barrage of

information that comes their way every dayon the Web, in the media, in homes, workplaces and
everywhere else.

Solving complex, multidisciplinary, open-ended problems

that all workers, in every kind of workplace, encounter routinely.

Creativity and entrepreneurial thinking a skill set highly

associated with job creation (Pink 2005, Robinson 2006, Sternberg 1996).

Communicating and collaborating with teams of people across cultural,

geographic and language boundariesa necessity in diverse and multinational workplaces and
communities.

Making innovative use of knowledge, information and

opportunities to create new services, processes and products

Taking charge of financial, health and civic responsibilities and making wise choices.

(21st Century Skills, Education & Competitiveness: A Resource and Policy Guide, p.10)

21ST CENTURY CURRICULUM

Walter Peyton College
Prep. High School in Chicago

Every subject has a global connection

The

faculty has a passion to nurture global leaders

There is a requirement for four years of foreign language
study .
Students connect with students across the globe via Skype
to learn from and work with to solve problems

21st Century Teaching

Learning is activated when we help our students

uncover information, not simply cover it for them. (21st Century
Skills, Education & Competitiveness: A Resource and Policy Guide, p.10)

21st Century Teaching

Forest Lake Elementary in SC, USA

They partnered with NASA

Students are self-directed
Teachers are facilitators
They maximize technology
They enable students dreams

21st Century Learning

Learning must have results that matter:

must be tied to outcomes, in terms of proficiency in core

subject knowledge and 21st century skills that are expected and
highly valued in school, work, and community settings
must provide the core competencies that employers and
postsecondary educators cite as the most critical for real-world
performance and advanced learning
must focus on critical thinking, problem solving,
creativity, and the other 21st century skills in order to
help people climb up the economic ladder
With 21st century skills, students will be prepared to
think, learn, work, solve problems, communicate,
collaborate, and contribute effectively throughout their
lives.

21st Century Learning

New Brunswick, Canada Public Schools
Learning must:
Be student centered and personalized
Provide experiences and
opportunities to apply knowledge
Be accessible anywhere and anytime

21st Century Assessment

Integrate both Formative
and Summative Assessments

Methods of Assessment
Forest Lake Elementary in SC, USA
Teachers use a variety of assessments:

use technology to monitor improvements in

different skills

have collaborative project presentations

students have self-directed project outcomes

Teachers work to know where children

are and take them as far as they can go.

Group Activity: Dream

As you are seated with faculty

members from different content
areas, you will dream together.
Each team will dream up an ideal
school of the future.
Use your sketchpad App. on your IPad to present your idea to the
other groups. (20 min.)
Have fun!

Homework

http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/t
he-other-21st-century-skills-educator-self-assessment

WORKS CITED
21st Century Skills, Education & Competitiveness: A Resource and Policy Guide. Partnership for 21st Century
Skills. 2008. Online
Kay, Ken. Enriching Minds for the 21st Century ( Foreword 21st Century Skills: Why They Matter, What They
Are, and How We Get There). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press. Online
National Center on Education and the Economy. Tough Choices or Tough Times, the New Commission on the
Skills of the American Workforce . Jossey-Bass. Online

Images
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