Learning in the 21st century

21st Century Pedagogy

Learning in the 21st century is about LITERACY.

Literacy :

the ability to read and write (Oxford Dictionary)
A synthesis of language, thinking and contextual practices through which meaning is shaped, involving interactions in a range of modes and through a variety of mediums (brilliant.edublogs.org/english-online/year-11/glossary-of-terms/)
‘Effective literacy is intrinsically purposeful, flexible and dynamic’ (Dawkins, J, 1991, Australia’s Language: The Australian Literacy and Language Policy, AGPS)

Students (and teachers) of the 21st century live in an exponential age, where data and information are growing at a rate beyond our comprehension ....

In 2006, the amount of digital information created, captured, and replicated was 1,288 x 1018 bits. In computer parlance, that's 161 billion gigabytes… This is about 3 million times the information in all the books ever written - and by 2011, this is expected to have increased ten-fold. Gantz, John F. (2008, March). The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe. An updated forcast of worldwide information growth through 2011. Retrieved January 6, 2009, from http://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/diverse-exploding-idc-exec-summary.pdf.

In 2006, the amount of digital information created, captured, and replicated was 1,288 x 1018 bits. In computer parlance, that's 161 billion gigabytes… This is about 3 million times the information in all the books ever written - and by 2011, this is expected to have increased ten-fold. Gantz, John F. (2008, March). The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe. An updated forcast of worldwide information growth through 2011. Retrieved January 6, 2009, from http://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/diverse-exploding-idc-exec-summary.pdf.

Therefore the most vitally important thing that we need to teach students today is how to manage information - how to read it, critically analyse it, consider it in light of their current learning, and reformulate it to meet their particular requirements.

“New communications media are reshaping the way we use language. When technologies of meaning are changing so rapidly, there cannot be one set of standards or skills that constitute the ends of literacy learning, however taught.”Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures New London Group. (1996). - Harvard Educational Review, 66(1), 60-92.

“New communications media are reshaping the way we use language. When technologies of meaning are changing so rapidly, there cannot be one set of standards or skills that constitute the ends of literacy learning, however taught.”Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures New London Group. (1996).
- Harvard Educational Review, 66(1), 60-92.

It is more important than ever that students are competent readers, writers, communicators and thinkers

IT Curriculum 2.0. (2008). Retrieved January 6, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-RbLbeDP4g .

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