21st CENTURY LEARNING

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

21st Century Competencies and Desired Student Outcomes

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

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

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

21st Century classroom

Collaborative- learning classroom

Using Collaborative- classroom

Group problem- solving

Usefulness of facilities in collaborative classroom Interactive whiteboard 9.8% Group seating-arrangement 58.5% Facilities for laptop power supply 61.0% Facilities for ST to project 48.8% LCD screens Visualizer for projection of mat’ls 34.1% Wireless network for accessing internet 70.1% Glass boards for writing 41.5%

Estimate the time spent on activities Presenting information by 34.76% instructor and whole class discussion Group work including 43.66% group presentation Individual work e.g. reading, 15.00% problem solving, computer work, individual presentation Taking tests/quiz 3.80% Other activities 10.54%

Frequency of Students in conducting activities Top 6 activities Access internet resources 2.46% (e.g. websites, youtube) Use MS Word to type documents 2.38% or record discussions Use internet search 2.33% Use their laptops to record notes 2.28% Use their laptops to prepare presentation 2.26% Connect their laptops to LCD for presentation 10.54%

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

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

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.

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.

Enabling power of technology Seamless learning through mobile technology

Mobilized science lessons in a Primary 3 class

Putting Primary 3 Science curriculum together : holistic learning

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

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

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

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

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

“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%

“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%

“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%

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

Enabling technology Games for learning

Interactive Library

Classroom of the Future

Scenarios of future technology-supported learning

Learning beyond the classroom

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

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