This document discusses challenges and opportunities in 21st century teaching and learning. It outlines five key characteristics of 21st century learning: learner-centered, media-driven, personalized, transfer by design, and visibly relevant. It then discusses each characteristic in more detail. For example, it explains that learner-centered education focuses on seeing each learner as unique, with unbounded potential. The document also discusses the importance of educational technology and some common challenges teachers face when integrating technology, such as students misusing devices, lack of teacher training, safety concerns, costs, and keeping up with rapid changes.

1. TEACHING LEARNING
CHALLENGES IN THE
21ST CENTURY

2. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO
TEACH IN THE 21ST
CENTURY?

4. Characteristics Of 21st Century Learning
1.Learner – Centered
2.Media – Driven
3.Personalized
4.Transfer by Design
5.Visibly Relevant

5. LEARNER – CENTERED EDUCATION
Learner-centered education is about an entirely new way of
seeing, thinking about, and acting on education.
It focuses on 3 key aspects about the learner.
First, each learner is seen as being unique in
meaningful ways
Second, each learner is seen as having unbounded
potential—potential that will unfold at its own pace
and in its own way
Third, each learner is seen as having an innate
desire to learn. The job of the education system is
unleash that desire.

6. MEDIA – DRIVEN
Media can be used in direct instruction, active
learning teaching strategies and student
projects.

7. PERSONALIZED
Personalized learning is an educational approach
that aims to customize learning for each student’s
strengths, needs, skills, and interests.

8. TRANSFER BY DESIGN
Transfer of learning means the use of previously
acquired knowledge and skills in new learning or
problem-solving situations.

9. VISIBLY RELEVANT
According to professor John Hattie,
Visible Learning as a concept is incredibly
simple: it aims to make student learning as
visible as possible.
This means that all students should be able to see
how their efforts are contributing to their education
and that teachers are able to self-reflect on their
practice to measure how it impacts student
outcomes.

10. TODAY'S LEARNERS
They use digital
technology transparently,
without thinking
about it, without
marveling at it, without
wondering how it
works.”

11. EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Technology serve as an instrument by
which students and teachers come together
to learn about their worlds.

12. WHY TECHNOLOGY
IS ESSENTIAL TO A
21ST CENTURY
EDUCATION?

13. First, it is important to discuss the value
21st century education technology brings
to the classroom environment.
There are four major areas:

14. First:
The addition of technology into the classroom can
help transform the classroom experience from a classic
teacher centered one into a student-centered experience
– with students taking a more active role in their
learning.

15. Second:
Technology provides teachers and students with
access to a variety of educational resources that inspire
creativity, critical thinking, communication, and
collaboration.

16. Third:
Through the use of instructional technology,
differentiated instruction can be made much easier.
It can become more of a reality!
With differentiated instruction, students are
provided an education that is personalized – and that
meets them where they are, developmentally.

17. Finally,
It is of paramount important that while in school,
students use tools that will best prepare them for their
future academic and professional experiences.

18. –Integrating technology into the classroom provides
students with a set of skills to navigate through the
variety of online tools we have today! It also provides
teachers opportunities to educate students on digital
citizenship and the new challenges to academic
integrity

19. Taking technology out of the learning
equation would be removing an integral
part of the students’ abilities.

20. Taking technology out of the learning
equation would be removing an integral
part of the students’ abilities.

22. Common challenges and concerns
teachers experience when integrating
technology and digital media in the
classroom include:

23. STUDENTS MISUSING TECHNOLOGY
With the introduction of technology in your classroom,
you are sure to encounter students attempting to misuse it,
largely for entertainment purposes instead of educational
ones.

24. TEACHER KNOWLEDGE AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Another common struggle of teachers attempting to
integrate technology into their classrooms is a lack of
knowledge and understanding of how to use technology, or
discomfort with using it.

25. KEEPING STUDENTS SAFE ONLINE
Increased access to technology can leave students
vulnerable to either intentionally or otherwise being exposed
to graphic content (including violent media and
pornography), online predators, scammers and hackers, and
cyberbullying.

26. COST OF NEW TECHNOLOGY
Another problem with technology in the classroom is
the cost of bringing new technology into your classroom.

27. KEEPING UP WITH CHANGES
Technology is a constantly evolving industry, and
education technology can quickly become obsolete as new
technology is introduced.
A major barrier many teachers struggle with when
introducing technology into their classrooms is keeping up
with these many changes and trends.