What is 21st century education? According to Scott Mcleod Blog(2008), “It is bold. It breaks the mold. It is flexible, creative, challenging, and complex. It addresses a rapidly changing world filled with fantastic new problems as well as exciting new possibilities.” 21st Century education is a shift in the teacher, the learner, and the space the learner is in. Christopher D Sessus (2009) states, “21st century teaching and learning is about developing skills and habits of mind that allow people to actively participate in society using all forms of media available. It stems from the need to teach people how to think and reflect critically on what is happening around them and to develop creative solutions that serve personal and social needs.”
To “bridge the gap between how students live and how they learn,” P21 has identified six key elements for 21st century education including, core subjects and learning skills as well as 21st century tools, contexts, content, and assessment. These six elements shape an educational reform agenda that P21 argues will enable young people to develop a wide range of skills (e.g., media, communication critical thinking, creative, problem solving, interpersonal, collaborative) while using information and communication technologies in real world contexts. To help education leaders and policymakers implement 21st century teaching and learning, P21 recently launched Route 21 (P21, 2007), an online, one-stop shop for 21st century skills-related information, resources and tools. Daniel Pink in A Whole New Mind, (2005) boldly claims that “the future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind—creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers. These people . . . will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.”
To “bridge the gap between how students live and how they learn,” P21 has identified six key elements for 21st century education including, core subjects and learning skills as well as 21st century tools, contexts, content, and assessment. These six elements shape an educational reform agenda that P21 argues will enable young people to develop a wide range of skills (e.g., media, communication critical thinking, creative, problem solving, interpersonal, collaborative) while using information and communication technologies in real world contexts. To help education leaders and policymakers implement 21st century teaching and learning, P21 recently launched Route 21 (P21, 2007), an online, one-stop shop for 21st century skills-related information, resources and tools. Daniel Pink in A Whole New Mind, (2005) boldly claims that “the future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind—creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers. These people . . . will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.”
McLeod, S. (2010). Dangerously irrelevant. Retrieved fromhttp://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/ Learning space design in 21st Century –
Sessus, C. (2009, August 8). What is Your personal definition of 21st century learning and/or teaching? Retrieved from http://eduspaces.net/csessums/weblog/724788.html
Partnership for 21st century skills: route 21(2010). Retrieved fromhttp://www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21
Pink, D. (2005). A Whole new mind: moving from the information age to the conceptual age. New York: Riverhead Books..
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