How should we use this? I have introduced this in my classes and my students have found it to be a valuable tool fool as they evaluated their own classes as to their level of 21st Century qualities.
Look these over and use them to review your own classes. How can you improve your teaching?
- 20th Century Education is teacher-centered with a fragmented curriculum and students working in isolation memorizing facts.
- 21st Century Education is student-centered with real-life, relevant, collaborative project-based learning.
20th Century Classroom Qualities
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21th Century Classroom Qualities
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Time-based
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Outcome-based
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Focus: memorization of discrete facts
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Focus: What students Know, Can Do and Are Like after all the details are forgotten.
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Lessons focus on the lower level of Bloom’s Taxonomy – knowledge, comprehension and application.
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Learning is designed on upper levels of Blooms’ – synthesis, analysis and evaluation (and include lower levels as curriculum is designed down from the top.)
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Textbook-driven (content comes from textbooks)
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Research-driven (content comes from student research)
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Passive learning
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Active Learning
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Learners work in isolation – classroom within 4 walls
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Learners work collaboratively with classmates and others around the world – the Global Classroom
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Teacher-centered: teacher is center of attention and provider of information
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Student-centered: teacher is facilitator/coach
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Little to no student freedom
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Great deal of student freedom
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“Discipline problems" – educators do not trust students and vice versa. No student motivation.
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No “discipline problems” – students and teachers have mutually respectful relationship as co-learners; students are highly motivated.
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Fragmented curriculum
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Integrated and Interdisciplinary curriculum
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Grades averaged
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Grades based on what was learned
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Low expectations
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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.
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Teacher is judge. No one else sees student work.
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Self, Peer, and Other assessments. public audience, authentic assessments.
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Curriculum/School is irrelevant and meaningless to the students.
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Curriculum is connected to students’ interests, experiences, talents, and the real world.
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Print is the primary vehicle of learning and assessment.
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Performances, projects, and multiple forms of media are used for learning and assessment
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Diversity in students is ignored.
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Curriculum and instruction address student diversity
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Literacy is the 3 R’s – reading, writing and math
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Multiple literacies of the 21st century – aligned to living and working in a globalized new millennium.
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Factory model, based upon the needs of employers for the Industrial Age of the 19th century. Scientific management.
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Global model, based upon the needs of a globalized, high-tech society.
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Driven by the NCLB and standardized testing mania.
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Standardized testing has its place. Education is not driven by the NCLB and standardized testing mania.
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