9.3 Framework_for_21st_Century_Learning

21

st

Century

21

Century Learning: Examples

• Elementary: Students from an elementary school in Maryland collaborate with a school in Mexico to study the migration pattern of the monarch butterfly from Mexico to the United States and back. Students from participating schools collect local

scientific data and share their data by entering them into an online database. There are also interactive activities supported by the project website that help students hone their information and communication technology skills. Journey North can be aligned with science, math, geography, and language arts standards. (ICT / Global Awareness)

• Middle School: At least twice a year, students undertake four- to twelve-week interdisciplinary projects. Besides incorporating such subjects as art, science, and language arts, the projects include well-considered use of computer technology, which has been enhanced by the decision of the state to provide all Maine seventh and eighth graders with iBook laptop computers. (Expeditionary Learning Schools) • High School: Students need to use their knowledge of math to create a financial

proposal, and build an architectural model for the construction of a futuristic school building. Students work in teams to problem solve around a given land-use design challenge. As part of the process, professional architects from the community advise students as they develop their designs, and ultimately act as judges for students’ culminating presentations of their proposals. (Critical Thinking / Math and Science)

Framework for 21

Century

Learning

• A “framework” of outcomes used to align facilities, professional development, curriculum and

pedagogy, and standards and assessment to support 21st century learning outcomes. The

student outcomes are skills and habits of mind (not test scores).

• Created in 2002. Seven states have now “adopted” the framework, along with individual districts and schools.

• Formulated by a business-government-non-profit partnership including the Department of

Why:

Workplace Readiness

•

_Demographics

– 40% of the workforce will

retire or significantly reduce work between

now and 2015. Severe shortage of workers

who are “skilled.”

•

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unprecedented rate.

•

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Framework for 21

Century Learning:

Framework for 21st Century Learning

Outcome: Learning and Innovation

Skills

Creativity and Innovation includes:

• Developing, implementing and communicating new ideas to others. • Being open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives.

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving includes:

• Understanding the interconnections among systems.

• Identifying and asking significant questions that clarify various points of view and lead to better solutions.

Communication and Collaboration includes:

Framework for 21st Century Learning

Outcome: Life and Career Skills

• Flexibility & Adaptability

• Initiative & Self-Direction

Framework for 21st Century Learning

Outcome: Information, Media and

Technology Skills

Information Literacy includes:

• Accessing information efficiently and effectively, evaluating information critically and competently and using information accurately and creatively for the issue or problem at hand.

Media Literacy includes:

• Understanding how media messages are constructed, for what purposes and using which tools, characteristics and

conventions.

ICT Literacy includes:

• Using digital technology, communication tools and/or networks appropriately to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, and create information in order to function in a knowledge economy.

21

Century Learning: Curriculum

A 21st century curriculum

blends

thinking and innovation skills;

information, media, and ICT literacy; and

life and career skills in context of core

academic subjects and across

interdisciplinary themes, and employs

methods of

21st century instruction

that integrate innovative and

research-proven teaching strategies, modern

•English, reading or language arts •World languages •Arts •Mathematics •Economics •Science •Geography •History •Government and Civics

21st Century

Additions: •Global Awareness •Financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy •Civic literacy •Health Literacy

21

Century Curriculum: Core Subjects and

21

Century Curriculum:

Project/Problem-Based Learning (PBL)

• PBL means that “students investigate rich and

challenging issues and topics, often in the context of real world problems.” Students generate ideas and provide explanations.

• PBL models may also include other aspects of 21st

century instruction such as the use of interdisciplinary content, and cooperative learning groups.

• PBL increases students’ active engagement with content, as well as their capacity for self-directed learning, collaboration, and social interaction.

Students should:

– Study an environmental problem, design a

solution and build a model.

– Write and perform a play about a current

event.

“Relate the school to life, and all studies are

of necessity correlated

.”

- John Dewey,

1899

21

Century Learning Environments

A 21st century learning environment depends on a number

of aligned and interdependent elements to support 21st

century teaching and learning. Among these elements are

the following:

• facilities and design

• technology infrastructure • scheduling

• school culture • leadership

21st century educational facilities should:

• Support the learning practices, collaborative arrangements, technological capacities, and physical spaces that enable teaching and

learning to flourish.

• Encourage teachers and students to

collaborate in a knowledge-rich environment.

• Accommodate both the known and identifiable needs of today, and the uncertain demands of the future.

• Provide an environment that will support and enhance the learning process, encourage

innovation and be a tool for learning… They need to be conceived …as a resource to support lifelong education and recreation for all.

21

Century Professional

Development:

A Phased Approach

1. Leadership Training for Administrators

2. In-Service Training for Teachers

3. ICT Literacy with tools and support

4. 24/7 access to 21

century tools

5. Pre-Service Training for ed. students

6. Add 21

C. standards for accreditation

21

Century Standards and

Assessment

Assessment of 21st century skills should:

• Include a balance of high-quality standardized testing along with effective classroom formative and summative

assessments.

• Emphasize useful feedback on student performance that is embedded into everyday learning.

• Require a balance of technology-enhanced, formative and summative assessments that measure student mastery of 21st century skills.

• Enable development of portfolios of student work that

demonstrate mastery of 21st century skills to educators and prospective employers.

• Enable a balanced portfolio of measures to assess the

Performance Tasks place students in a real-world scenario.

In the following case, students have 90 minutes to advise the

mayor on crime reduction strategies and evaluate two potential policies:

1. Invest in a drug treatment program or 2. Put more police on the streets.

Students are provided with a Document Library, which includes different types of information sources, such as…

21st Century Assessment:

21st Century Assessment:

Sample Middle School Level Assessment

Students are expected to evaluate evidence by: 1. Determining what information is or is not

pertinent

2. Distinguishing between fact and opinion 3. Recognizing limitations in the evidence

21st Century Assessment:

Sample Middle School Level Assessment

Students are assessed on the basis of their ability to analyze and synthesize the evidence by:

1. Presenting his/her own analysis of the data 2. Breaking down the evidence into its

component parts

3. Drawing connections between discrete sources of data

4. Attending to contradictory or inadequate information

ASIAN TIGER MOSQUITO: Question 1 and Document Library Contents

MYTHS: Brueghel Painting