The 21st Century Learning Oppurtunities

        

The 21st Century Learning Opportunities

          The world is much different today than it was even 20 years ago. We live in the 21st century and technology impacts everyone and everything in which we come in contact.We are constantly being bombarded with technological changes and must embrace the transformation of learning and teaching techniques in order to prepare our students for global warming. The educational methods used to teach children in previous centuries no longer apply. There is a large variance between the knowledge and skills most of our students are learning in K-12 education and what they will really need in the average 21st century civilization.

There are a number of influences in the world today that have dramatically changed the way people live and work. Schools must revise their traditional methods of teaching in order to educate students for the 21st century, using 21st century tools. Institutions of learning must figure out how to "bridge the gap between how they learn". In 21st century learning, department provides professional development for the integration of technology in the classroom. The goal is to inform and transform teaching, learning and leading through the development of four key 21st Century skills, the Creativity, Collaboration, Communication and Critical Thinking through the use of e-learning.  

Teachers in 21st Century have a big role in the learning of their students. They are the key for the student's success. They need to engage their students in the real world. Students need to look inside themselves and draw conclusions based on their own knowledge base. So, teachers must concentrate on making connections between facts and new learning opportunities for students since instruction needs to be modified for student responses and needs to encourage students to analyze, interpret, and predict information. As Toffler (n.d.) states, “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

          Students can act as the creator of his or her own meanings in learning. So, teachers need to provide opportunities for new material, practice of the material. Students need to be taught to think carefully about how they are learning.  This can assist students in taking control of their own learning, monitoring their own progress, and improving their achievement. This may be the key for the student’s success but teachers must remember that they must know their students and they need to determine the best way to bridge the gap between how students learn and how they’re tested.

         21st century learning is a big opportunities to all students in this generation. They are bounded with different technologies that may help themselves. They can create new learning in the communities. By the help of technologies, the work of students as well of the educator may lessen. They are provided with new environment for them to know the meaning of life after how many years. Every year, the level of learning increases because of the discovery of technologies. The technology is very useful but we need to remember that we don't need to depend on technologies all the time. Effort is much important than depending on the technology all the time. Remember this quotation "We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself" by Lloyd Alexander.   

     

Reference:

www.meridianschools.org/TTC/Documents/21st%20Century%20Learning.doc