21 st Century Standards and Curriculum: Current Research and Practice
Key Indicators for Educational Attainment in
Kenya•Learner Outcomes•Quality of Education Institutions•Readiness for School•Societal Support for Learning•Education & Economic
Productivity•Equity
21st Century Education
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It breaks the mould.It is flexible, creative, challenging, and complex. It addresses a rapidly changing world filled with new problems as well as exciting new possibilities.
http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/What_is_21st_Century_Education.htm
The Framework for 21st Century Learning describes the skills, knowledge and expertise students must master to succeed in work and life.
21st Framework for the 21st Century Skills
•Teaming•Collaboration•Interpersonal Skills •Local, National Global Orienteers
•Interactive Communication
The four “C”s• Critical thinking and problem solving• Communication• Collaboration• Creativity and innovation
As the three “R”s serve as an umbrella for other subjects, the four “C”s do for other skills.
•Visual and Information literacies
•Media literary•Basic, scientific economic and technological literacies, and
•Multicultural literacy
•Flexibility and Adaptability•Leadership and Responsibility•Social and Cross-Cultural skills.• Initiative and Self-Direction•Productivity and Accountability•Ethical, moral and spiritual
values.
• Way of Thinking – creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, decision making and learning.
• Way of Working – Communication and Collaboration.
• Tools for Working – Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and information literacy.
• Skills for living in the world – Citizenship, life and career, and personal and social responsibility.
21st Century Skills Framework
Standards & Assessment
Curriculum & Instruction
Professional Development
Learning Environments
Old Learner vs. New Learner
Text ContentPassiveFormalTechno-Phobic
Visual Content
Hands-OnPersonalTechno-Savvy
Learner-Centric
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Designed Instruction in the 21st
Century Expectation
• Use innovative strategies and modern learning technologies
learning content skills real life
Allows Students to: Access Information And Knowledge By Themselves “Learn How To Learn”.
Students contribute to the construction of their own knowledge and produce information that has value or meaning to them in order to achieve collaborative work in its truest sense.
The Essence of Learning
The Rigor/Relevance Framework
AAcquisition
BApplication
CAssimilation
DAdaptation
KNOWLEDGE
TAXONOMY
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Evaluation
Synthesis
Analysis
Application
Understanding
Awareness
APPLICATION MODEL
1 2 3 4 5Knowledge Apply in
discipline
Apply acrossdisciplines
Apply toreal worldpredictable situations
Apply to real-worldunpredictable situations