1. 21st CENTURY LEARNING

2. 21st Century Competencies
Collaborative skills
Interpersonal skills
Thinking skills
Communication skills

3. 21st Century Competencies and Desired Student Outcomes

4. 21st Century Learners
E experiential
P participatory
I imagery
C connectedness

5. 21st Century Learning Ownership transfer from teacher to students
Teacher as coach, facilitator, mentor and designer of leaning environment

6. 21st Century Pedagogy Student-centered learning Collaborative learning
Project-based learning
Problem-based learning
Learning and Teaching in e-Env.

7. 21st Century classroom

8. Collaborative- learning classroom

9. Using Collaborative- classroom

10. Group problem- solving

11. Usefulness of facilities in collaborative classroom
Interactive whiteboard %
Group seating-arrangement %
Facilities for laptop power supply %
Facilities for ST to project %
LCD screens
Visualizer for projection of mat’ls %
Wireless network for accessing internet %
Glass boards for writing %

12. Estimate the time spent on activities
Presenting information by %
instructor and whole class discussion
Group work including %
group presentation
Individual work e.g. reading, %
problem solving, computer work,
individual presentation
Taking tests/quiz %
Other activities %

13. Frequency of Students in conducting activities
Top 6 activities
Access internet resources %
(e.g. websites, youtube)
Use MS Word to type documents %
or record discussions
Use internet search %
Use their laptops to record notes %
Use their laptops to prepare presentation 2.26%
Connect their laptops to LCD for presentation 10.54%

14. Comments from Teachers
Easy to consolidate all discussions immediately and share with the rest
Very easy for the students to work and share their worker with the other teams efficiently and effectively

15. Change in pedagogy
_____ lively and interactive ______ able to walk around the entire classroom, checking work and instructing my relations with students is closer than it used to be

16. Change in pedagogy
Students do close-text analysis on whiteboard. I now tend to use more multimedia texts in class. Students are more engaged and often search websites for more information on concepts, cultural phenomena, text references which I am discussing with them, adding to the class’ repertoire of knowledge.

17. Change in pedagogy
Yes, quite a lot. Class discussion is immensely enriched by seating arrangement. Glass boards allow me to give them tasks for group and individual participation and students take pictures of class work and sometimes post them on Facebook.

18. Enabling power of technology
Seamless learning through mobile technology

19. Mobilized science lessons in a Primary 3 class

20. Putting Primary 3 Science curriculum together :
holistic learning

21. Impact on test scores on experimental classes
Significant difference on year-end science exam scores among 6 mixed-ability classes
Class difference explains 41% of the variance in year-end exam scores

22. Impact on test scores on experimental classes
The intervention class has the highest exam scores among all the mixed ability classes!

23. Deeper impacts Teacher changes
From being dominant to being a facilitator
Not worried about saying “I don’t know”

24. Deeper impacts Student changes
More ownership of personal constructed artifacts
Demonstrated self-directed and collaborative inquiry learning

25. Deeper impacts Curriculum changes
From publisher curriculum to school-based curriculum
From standard to differentiated curriculum

26. “My child enjoys learning using his/her smartphone.”
SURVEY
“My child enjoys learning using his/her smartphone.”
Strongly Agree = 30%; Agree = 49%
Disagree = 3% and Strongly Disagree = 3%
Neutral = 15%

27. “I know what my child is doing on the smartphone.”
SURVEY
“I know what my child is doing on the smartphone.”
Strongly Agree = 2%; Agree = 58%
Disagree = 9% and Strongly Disagree = 2%
Neutral = 20%

28. “My child spends sufficient time on the smartphone for learning.”
SURVEY
“My child spends sufficient time on the smartphone for learning.”
Strongly Agree = 12%; Agree = 48%
Disagree = 6% and Strongly Disagree = 6%
Neutral = 28%

29. Enabling power of technology
Through the Apps for learning
Dollar Dash
NIE mGeo
NIE mVideo
NIE Well Said

30. Enabling technology
Games for learning

31. Interactive Library

32. Classroom of the Future

33. Scenarios of future technology-supported learning

34. Learning beyond the classroom

35. Conclusion
“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” John Dewey

36. THANK
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