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Technology
for Teaching and Learning
Learning Module

Elementary Grades

Jessie Boy C. Canaria

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UNIT 1:
Using ICT in Developing 21st Century skills/ ICT in the 21st Century Skills

Modular Objective:

At the end of this module students must be able to:

 To provide education in the use of technology in instruction by providing
knowledge and skills on technology integration-in-instruction to learners
 To impart learning experiences in instructional technology-supported instructional
planning
 To acquaint students on information technology or IT- related learning theories
with the computer as a tutor
 To learn to use and evaluate computer-based educational resources

Introduction

It is becoming increasingly clear that knowledge alone is not enough to prepare

students to thrive in the world. Employers are speaking out about their newly hired
graduates and their lack of skills in the workplace. In order to truly have expertise,
students must learn what to do with the information they learn. Can they use it to create
something new? How do they know that it is making a sound argument? Can they
communicate their knowledge? Can they work together to construct something greater
than any one student? This paper will justify and explore the Skills necessary for a 21st
Century Education: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration (“4
C’s”).

The 21st Century Skills

21st century skills are tools that can be universally applied to enhance ways of thinking,
learning, working and living in the world. The skills include critical thinking/reasoning,
creativity/creative thinking, problem solving, metacognition, collaboration,
communication and global citizenship

21ST-CENTURY SKILLS FRAMEWORK

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 21st Century Skills

A. Life and Career Skills

Today’s life and work environments require far more than thinking skills and content
knowledge. The ability to navigate the complex life and work environments in the
globally competitive information age requires students to pay rigorous attention to
developing adequate life and career skills.

1. Flexibility & Adaptability

 Adapt to Change
 Adapt to varied roles, job responsibilities, schedules, and contexts
 Work effectively in a climate of ambiguity and changing priorities

 Be Flexible
 Incorporate feedback effectively
 Deal positively with praise, setbacks, and criticism
 Understand, negotiate, and balance diverse views and beliefs to reach
workable solutions, particularly in multi-cultural environments

2. Initiative & Self-Direction

 Manage Goals and Time

 Set goals with tangible and intangible success criteria
 Balance tactical (short-term) and strategic (longterm) goals
 Utilize time and manage workload efficiently

 Work Independently
 Monitor, define, prioritize, and complete tasks without direct oversight

3. Initiative and Self-direction

 Be Self-directed Learners
 Go beyond basic mastery of skills and/or curriculum to explore and
expand one’s own learning and opportunities to gain expertise
 Demonstrate initiative to advance skill levels
 Demonstrate commitment to learning as a lifelong process
 Reflect critically on past experiences in order to inform future progress

B. Learning and Innovation Skills

Learning and innovation skills increasingly are being recognized as the skills that
separate students who are prepared for increasingly complex life and work
environments in the 21st century, and those who are not. A focus on creativity, critical
thinking, communication and collaboration is essential to prepare students for the future.

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CRITICAL THINKING

Critical Thinking is clear, rational and disciplined thinking where the thinker improves his
thought processes by reflecting on them and recognizing the errors and biases that may
be present. Critical Thinkers use a group of interconnected skills to analyze, unify and
evaluate what is heard, seen, or read by them.

Definitions of Critical Thinking include concepts of analyzing information, applying

strategies for deciding, readiness to consider ideas ,using logical enquiry, making
inferences, appraising evidence, testing conclusions, making accurate judgments and
analyzing assumptions.

Essential Critical Thinking Skills

a. Distinguish between verifiable facts and claims of value.
b. Distinguishing relevant data from irrelevant information.
c. Determining whether a statement is factually correct.
d. Identifying whether a source is credible.
e. Spotting ambiguous claims or arguments.
f. Identifying assumptions which are not stated explicitly.
g. Detecting bias.
h. Recognizing errors in the line of reasoning.
i. Identifying logical inconsistencies.
j. Assessing the strength of an argument or claim.

Intellectual Standards:

These are the standards against which we can compare the thinking process. Alignment
to these standards determines whether our thinking process can be considered critical
thinking.

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Elements of Reasoning:

These are the building blocks of reasoning, which the authors consider to be present in
some form at all instances of thinking.

Intellectual Traits:

These are the desirable traits that a good critical thinker must develop by consistent
application of the intellectual standards to the elements of reasoning. They are also
known as ‘virtues of mind’.

CREATIVITY

Creativity is the skill of being able to product, an idea, a concept, a process or a solution
to a specific problem.

Creativity is the process of making something that hasn't been made before - be it a
painting, an idea, a solution, a relationship or a new dance move. It is a set of beliefs
and attitudes as much as it is a toolbox of skills and knowledge.

Creativity is the ability or power to create, to produce through imaginative skill and to
bring into existence something new.

Three Types of Creativity

Primary Creativity: The level that new and fundamental ideas, which differ radically
from which exists, arise. Primary creativity is most often expressed in the arts and
literature. And it is spontaneous.

Secondary Creativity: Ideas that are based on the existing concept, which take
already exists work for further. The level of Thought and planning associated with
secondary creativity is higher.

Integrated Creativity: It often brings forth great achievements be it in arts, literature,

science or business. It combines the elements of primary and secondary creativity.

COLLABORATION

Collaboration is learning to plan and work together, to consider diverse perspectives, to

participate in discourse by contributing, listening and supporting others. It is about
recognizing and valuing individual contributions towards the group’s productivity and
improvement.
Collaborative learning is based on the idea of synergy that the whole equals more than
the individual parts.
A brilliant example: Facebook was created from the collaborated ideas of many people

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ESSENTIAL 21st CENTURY COLLABORATION SKILLS
- Balance listening and speaking, leading and following in a group.
- Demonstrate flexibility, compromise, empathy.
- Consider, prioritize and advance the needs of the larger group.
- Work together to create new ideas and new products.
- Share responsibility for completing work.
- Work respectfully with others to make decisions that include the views of multiple
individuals.

Collaborate with Others

- Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams

- Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary
compromises to accomplish a common goal
- Assume shared responsibility for collaborative work, and value the individual
contributions made by each team member

ASSESSMENT OF COLLABORATION SKILLS

 Rubric
 Contracts
 Narratives
 Portfolios
 Graphic Organizers
 Checklist / rating scale
 Self and peer evaluation and reflection
 Teacher observation
 Student logs and journals

COMMUNICATION

Communication involves creating meaning, imparting knowledge, skills and beliefs to

others and receiving inputs from multiple sources. Learning in school and in the outside
world is based on effective communication. Today’s teacher has a vast array of
resources like audio, video, digital images and technologies that connect students in
real time, even to remote areas. Students can record their learning and explain their
thinking, share with others, display their work, thus increasing the relevance and
meaning of knowledge.

Communicate clearly

- Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written, and nonverbal
communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts
- Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes,
and intentions

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 - Use communication for a range of purposes (e.g., to inform, instruct, motivate,
and persuade) and in diverse environments (including multi-lingual)
- Utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to judge their
effectiveness a priori as well as assess their impact

COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY CLASSROOM.

- Verbal communication such as conversation, debate, persuasion, constructive

dialogue etc.
- Receptive communication skills: Paying attention, listening and comprehending.
- Reading, viewing and listening to multiple types of media.
- Producing effective communication through oral, written, visual, non-verbal and
technical media.
- Expressing views and preferences in a neutral manner.

ACTIVITIES THAT INVOLVE COMM. SKILLS

 Reading
 Multicultural understanding
 Math
 Games
 Summarizing
 Teach another
 Debates

They can be integrated with other instruction or used as a standalone.

Communication skills can be assessed using checklists and Rubrics.

C. INFORMATION, MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

People in the 21st century live in a technology and media-suffused environment,

marked by access to an abundance of information, rapid changes in technology tools,
and the ability to collaborate and make individual contributions on an unprecedented
scale. To be effective in the 21st century, citizens and workers must be able to exhibit a
range of functional and critical thinking skills related to information, media and
technology.

a. Information Literacy

Access and Evaluate Information

- Access information efficiently (time) and effectively (sources)
- Evaluate information critically and competently

Use and Manage Information

- Use information accurately and creatively for the issue or problem at hand

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 - Manage the flow of information from a wide variety of sources
- Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the
access and use of information

b. Media Literacy

Analyze Media

- Understand both how and why media messages are constructed and for what
purposes
- Examine how individuals interpret messages differently, how values and points of
view are included or excluded, and how media can influence beliefs and
behaviors
- Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the
access and use of media

Create Media

- Products Understand and utilize the most appropriate media creation tools,
characteristics, and conventions
- Understand and effectively utilize the most appropriate expressions and
interpretations in diverse, multi-cultural environments

c. ICT (Information, Communications And Technology) Literacy

Apply Technology Effectively

- Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate, and communicate

information
- Use digital technologies (e.g., computers, PDAs, media players, GPS, etc.),
communication/networking tools, and social networks appropriately to access,
manage, integrate, evaluate, and create information to successfully function in a
knowledge economy
- Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the
access and use of information technologies

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