Building and Enhancing New With Emphasis On 21: Literacies in The Curriculum
Building and Enhancing New With Emphasis On 21: Literacies in The Curriculum
I. OVERVIEW
Module Title
Description
This course introduces the concepts of new literacies in the 21st
century as an evolving social phenomenon and shared cultural practices
across learning areas. It offers fresh insights on literacy teaching and learning
in the contemporary age. It presents unique approach in examining new
literacies through multiple theoretical lenses and highlighting critical literacy in
the list to emphasize the importance of critical thinking and evaluation of
information and sources in the contemporary information and knowledge
production age. It clearly defines instruction design that aids the teacher in
facilitating logical interactive classroom discourse and exchange.
Topics
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Module Guide
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Course Outcome
When you have completed this module, you will be able to:
Create a Project Learning proposal guided by the four phases of The Project
Learning Bicycle model.
Module Requirements
You are expected to read the content of the module, understand and
answer the pre and post assessment. You are required to complete all the
activities found in every lesson, pass the written midterm and final
examination, and submit all extended activities in the suggested readings.
You are expected to design a project learning proposal guided by the Project
Learning Bicycle Model. You will be evaluated using the rating scale:
5 4 3 2 1
Presentation
Mechanics No spelling, A few (2-3) No more than 5 No more than 7 More than 7
grammar, or errors in spelling, grammar spelling, spelling,
Spelling, punctuation spelling, or punctuation grammar or grammar or
grammar, and errors in the text. grammar or errors. Several punctuation punctuation
Text is in the punctuation. instances where errors. Most of errors. Text is
punctuation in any student’s own Most text is in the text is not in text is not in copied or not
text on the poster words. student’s own student’s own authors’ own included.
is accurate. words. words. words and/or no
text included.
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1. How is 21st century learning different from learning in the 20th century?
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3. How will a 21st century learning approach help solve global problems?
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Pre-activity
Present the possible scenario (it can be in a form of illustration) what the
world will be like twenty or many years from now when your child has left
school and has not learned all the skills he/she might have learned, if she had
attended only formal education. What skill will your child need to be
successful in this world you have imagined 20 years from now?
Activity 1
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“We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist…using
technologies that haven’t yet been invented…in order to solve problems we
don’t even know are problems yet.”
1. Revisit the historical role education has played on society’s evolving stage.
How will the world be like 20 years from now?
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2. Trace the historical role of education in society using the sequencing flow
map.
Analysis
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3. Explore the world of work students will be graduating into and the prospects
for future jobs and careers in the 21st century. What skills will your child need
in order to be competitive in the profession he will choose to have in the future?
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Analysis
1. What is the function of education in the 21st Century? How does learning
take responsibility throughout life?
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Abstraction
Application
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The four powerful forces that that are converging and leading us
toward new ways of learning for life in the 21st century are knowledge
work, thinking tools, digital lifestyles and learning research.
These four forces are simultaneously creating the need for new forms
of learning in the 21st century and supplying the tools, environments,
and guiding principles required to support 21st century learning
practices.
Activity 2.1
Automobiles are cultural icons that of modern times. How cars have been
designed and manufactured in the past decades reveal just how much times
have changed.
Directions: Read the selection below and answer the questions that follow.
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2. How are these changing forces reshaping our learning, work, and life in
the 21st century?
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3. The 21st century has already brought historic changes to the world of work.
What does knowledge age requires? How is knowledge work achieved today?
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Activity 2.2
Whether you call them “digital natives,” “net geners,” “netizens,” “homo
zappiens,” or something else, it is clear that the members of the first
generation to grow surrounded by digital media (those now aged 11 to thirty –
one) are different from the “digital immigrants” who learned to “do technology”
in later life.
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1. What are the advantages and drawbacks of thinking and knowledge tools?
the digital tools?
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Activity 2.3
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Analysis
1. How are schools shifting their balance toward 21st century learning? How
does it affect the teacher and students in school classrooms everyday?
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2. How does the 4 forces converged and lead toward a new way of learning
for life in the 21st century?
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With the vast number of websites, web forums, and social media
applications now available for us, never before has there been so much
information-in nearly every form imaginable, from nearly every source
imaginable-available to us twenty-four hours a day, no matter our location.
Activity 3.1
Learning and Innovation skills: Learning to Create Together. The first set of
21st century skills focuses on critical learning skills and innovation:
1. Why do you think these skills are the keys to unblocking a lifetime of
learning and creative work?
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2. Do you believe that critical thinking and problem solving are considered by
many to be the new basics of 21st centuri learning? Explain your answer.
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Activity 3.2
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b. Media Literacy
c. ICT Literacy
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Activity 3.3
Career and Life Skills: Work-Ready, Prepared for Life. The rapid pace of
technological change forces us all to adapt quickly to new ways of
communicating, learning, working and living. We switch jobs and careers
more frequently, and entirely new kinds of work are arising from innovations in
many fields.
D. Productivity and
Accountability Skills
E. Leadership and
Responsibility Skills
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The learning power of the right question at the right time has been
celebrated throughout recorded history.The careful construction of basic
questions about our natural world and the imaginative search for accurate
answers to them are at the center of the scientific method-our most important
innovation for exploring and uncovering new knowledge.
1. Why do you think questions and problems are natural motivators for
learning?
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2. Make a distinction between inquiry-based learning and design based
learning.
Inquiry-based learning Inquiry-based learning
From the illustration above, how does scientific experimental method differ
from engineering design method? Give at least 3.
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5. Make a Poster how this formula 3Rs x 7C’s = 21st Century Learning direct
to a successful learning in the 21st century. Post it in the class GC.
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