This document discusses 21st century education and the skills needed for students in the modern world. It outlines three main points: 1) 21st century education focuses on developing skills like critical thinking, collaboration, communication and adapting to change, rather than memorization of facts. It emphasizes project-based and active learning. 2) Today's students, called digital natives, have grown up with technology and need education to incorporate their skills and interests. They want voice, transparency, creativity and connections through technology. 3) The modern classroom shifts from teacher-centered learning to student-centered models that are outcome-based, integrated, and allow for diversity, multiple literacies and relevance to students' lives outside of

1. 21st Century Education
Globalizing curriculum and
Instruction

2. “One can’t believe impossible things.”
“I dare say you haven’t had much practice,”
said the Queen. “When I was your age I
always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why,
sometimes I’ve believed as many as six
impossible things before breakfast.”
( Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland)

3. Should You Choose to Accept It . . .
• Like Alice, many educators, policy makers
and even the general public respond
resoundingly with "That's impossible!"
when challenged to adopt a new paradigm
of education for the 21st century. Most
people today adhere to a paradigm of
education that is strictly 19th century. But,
like the Queen, a growing number of
educators are believing in and
accomplishing "the impossible".

4. what is 21st century education?
• It is flexible, creative, challenging, and
complex. It addresses a rapidly changing
world filled with fantastic new problems as
well as exciting new possibilities.
Fortunately, there is a growing body of
research supporting an increasing number
of 21st century schools.

5. The 21st Century
• ushered in by a dramatic technological
revolution
• an increasingly diverse, globalized, and
complex, media-saturated society
• According to Dr. Douglas Kellner at UCLA
this technological revolution will have a
greater impact on society than the
transition from an oral to a print culture.1

6. • Emerging technologies and resulting
globalization also provide unlimited
possibilities for exciting new discoveries
and developments such as new forms of
energy, medical advances, restoration of
environmentally ravaged areas,
communications, and exploration into space
and into the depths of the oceans. The
possibilities are unlimited.

7. 21st Century Skills
• “whole child”, the “whole person”,
and does not limit our professional
development and curriculum
design to workplace readiness.

8. Survival Skills
( advocated by Tony Wagner )
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Collaboration across Networks and Leading
by Influence
• Agility and Adaptability
• Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
• Effective Oral and Written Communication
• Accessing and Analyzing Information
• Curiosity and Imagination

9. 21st CENTURY LEARNERS

10.  Generation Y ====== Eric Chester
( they are skeptical and ask WHY )
 Net Generation/ Net Gener === Barnes
( net savvy ) Marateo
Ferris
Digital Natives ======= Marc Prensky
( native speakers of the digital language
of computers, video games and internet )

11. 21st CENTURY LEARNERS
use information they have learned and
demonstrate their mastery of the content
in the projects they work on
 they learn how to ask the right question,
how to conduct an appropriate
investigation, how to find answers, and
how to use information

12.  grown up in a media saturated
environment and have become
desensitized and critical
 they find it easy to multi-task and want
to be a part of the experience that new
emerging technology brings while
craving the limelight for the effort
 students move beyond the student role
to learn through real world experiences

13.  no longer by memorizing and
recalling information but on learning
how to learn
 emphasis = CREATING LIFELONG
LEARNERS
 do not respond to traditional
instructions and require their learning
needs be met in a variety of ways that
use technological tools in the learning
process

14. MATURES BOOMER GEN X GEN Y
BIRTH Before 1945 1945-1964 1964-1980 1980-2000
FAMIL
Y
Traditional Disintegrating Latch key kids Blended
EDU-
CATION
A Dream A Birthright A way to get there A huge
expense

15. MATURES BOOMER GEN X GEN Y
VALUE
S
•“WE” First
• Military
• Respect
• Conformity
• Timeliness
• A loyal to “ME”
• Team oriented
• competitive
• workaholics
• Face time
• Prove it to “ME”
• Work life
balance
• Why?
• Responsible for
own success
• Must believe in
leader
•Work hard=
reward
• instant
gratification
• Hive
• Job not a way of
life but means to
provide for
outside activities
• “Army of 1”
HEROE
S
• Army/ Navy
(not
individuals)
MLK
JFK
No common hero Family or
someone they
know or met
( individual)

16. GENERATION X
vs.
GENERATION Y

17. Generation X
• Members of Generation X are largely in
their 30’s and early 40’s
• , they are more ethnically diverse and
better educated than the Baby Boomers
• Over 60% of Generation X attended
college.

18. Characteristics of Generation X
1. Individualistic
2. Technologically Adept
3. Flexible
4. Value Work/Life Balance

19. Generation Y
• Born in the mid-1980's and later,
Generation Y legal professionals are in
their 20s and are just entering the
workforce. With numbers estimated as
high as 70 million, Generation Y (also
known as the Millennials) is the fastest
growing segment of today’s workforce.
As law firms compete for available talent,
employers cannot ignore the needs,
desires and attitudes of this vast

20. Traits that define Generation Y
1. Tech-Savvy
2. Family-Centric
3. Achievement-Oriented
4. Team-Oriented
5. Attention-Craving

21. 21 Characteristics of 21st Century
Learners (Generation Y )
1. Want to have a say in their education.
They’ll respond better when their voices
are heard.
2. Often have higher levels of digital
literacy than their parents or teachers.
They don’t know a world without
computers.
3. Expect transparency in their parents,
teachers and mentors. They’ll see right
through you.

22. 4. Want you to tell them when you have
messed up, apologize for it, and move
on. Everyone messes up. No big deal. Just
don’t try to hide it. If you do, they are likely
to post it on Facebook.
5. Don’t care as much about having a job as
they do about making a difference. The
very concept of a “job” has changed so
much in the past decade, the future is
about making a difference.

23. 6. Demand the freedom to show their wild
creativity. 21st century learners balk at
rote learning and memorizing. They’ll do
it if you make them, but be prepared to let
them loose to be creative, too.
7. Want to connect with others in real
time on their own terms. They want their
social media, their phones and their mobile
technology. They want to be connected. All
the time. In a way that makes sense to them
(not necessarily to you).

24. 8. Collaborate amazingly well.
They love teamwork and figuring
things out with their friends.
9. Really can multi-task.
10. Appreciate a “trial and error”
approach to learning new skills.

25. 11. Learn by doing. Just try making them sit
down and learn from you by watching. See
what happens.
12. Have a “can do” attitude. There is
nothing to be afraid of.
13. Thrive in an atmosphere of controlled
challenge. They must be challenged or they
zone out, but they need structure, too.
14. Have multicultural awareness and
appreciation. This generation is more
aware of a variety cultures, countries and
ways of life than any generation before
them.

26. 15. Open to change. Really, what’s the big
deal?
16. Are equal parts “consumer” and
“creator”.
17. Increasingly aware of the world
around them. From the environment to
politics, today’s learners are asking
questions and demanding answers.

27. 18. Know where to go to find
information. Google was first
incorporated in 1998. 21st century
learners have never known a world
without Google.
19. Are better educated than any
generation before them. 21st
century learners really do know more
than their parents (but that doesn’t
necessarily make them wiser!)

28. 20. Expect inter-disciplinarity. It is we,
the older generation, who organize topics
into “subjects”. The 21st century learner
understands that subjects are inherently
interconnected.
21. Know that they are the future. They
look at their parents and their peers and
understand that the world’s future rests
in their hands.

29. 20th Century Classroom vs. the
21st Century Classroom

30. Time-based Outcome-based
Focus: memorization of
discrete facts
Focus: what students
Know, Can Do and Are
Like after all the details
are forgotten.
Lessons focus on the
lower level of Bloom’s
Taxonomy – knowledge,
comprehension and
application.
Learning is designed on
upper levels of Blooms’ –
synthesis, analysis and
evaluation (and include
lower levels as
curriculum is designed
down from the top.)

31. Textbook-driven Research-driven
Passive learning Active Learning
Learners work in
isolation – classroom
within 4 walls
Learners work
collaboratively with
classmates and others
around the world – the
Global Classroom

32. Teacher-centered:
teacher is center of
attention and provider of
information
Student-centered:
teacher is
facilitator/coach
Little to no student
freedom
Great deal of student
freedom
“Discipline problems" –
educators do not trust
students and vice versa.
No student motivation.
No “discipline problems”
– students and teachers
have mutually respectful
relationship as co-
learners; students are
highly motivated.

33. Fragmented curriculum Integrated and
Interdisciplinary
curriculum
Grades averaged Grades based on what
was learned
Low expectations High expectations – “If it
isn’t good it isn’t done.”
We expect, and ensure,
that all students succeed
in learning at high levels.
Some may go higher –
we get out of their way to
let them do that.

34. Teacher is judge. No one
else sees student work.
Self, Peer and Other
assessments. Public
audience, authentic
assessments.
Curriculum/School is
irrelevant and
meaningless to the
students.
Curriculum is connected
to students’ interests,
experiences, talents and
the real world.
Print is the primary
vehicle of learning and
assessment.
Performances, projects
and multiple forms of
media are used for
learning and assessment

35. Diversity in students is
ignored.
Curriculum and instruction
address student diversity
Literacy is the 3 R’s –
reading, writing and math
Multiple literacies of the 21st
century – aligned to living
and working in a globalized
new millennium.
Factory model, based upon
the needs of employers for
the Industrial Age of the 19th
century. Scientific
management.
Global model, based upon
the needs of a globalized,
high-tech society.
Driven by the NCLB and
standardized testing mania.
Standardized testing has its
place. Education is not
driven by the NCLB and
standardized testing mania.

36. THANK YOU….