Module Week 5 Activity PDF
Module Week 5 Activity PDF
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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.
Education about life skills makes the individual able to improve his knowledge, develop values and
views, meaning that the individual knows when and how to do a task. Life skills motivate healthy
behaviour and increase self-confidence. The 21st century skills focus on the knowledge acquisition,
deepening and creation. In broader term, it covers the “4 C’s” of Creativity, Critical thinking,
Communication, Collaboration, digital age literacy and others. These skills are sometimes also known as
higher-order skills. In the 20th century education, teachers are considered the centre of attention and
provider of information, but in the digital age (21st century education), teachers are now considered as
facilitator or coach that helps students to assess and process information by using technology. Therefore,
teaching young children today is an increasingly challenging task. In the face of these challenges, the
introduction of information and communications technologies (ICT) into schools has come to be seen as a
unique opportunity. ICT offers simulations and multimedia-rich learning environment that improve student
learning and increase the efficiency of the education system. Teachers of 21st century will need to be experts
and have expertise in teaching the same 21st century skills that they are encouraging their students to excel
in. In view of that, besides expert in the content knowledge, teachers must be also equipped themselves with
the latest technological and pedagogical skills.
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