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21 Century World
Angelica T. Lazaro
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Social Science and Development
 Our society is modern and fast-paced, globally
networked, technologically oriented, and
overwhelming with varied changes and
development. It requires learners who think
critically, make judicious decisions, and act with
prudence.
 21st Century as the “make or break
century”

James Martin said Humanity’s demands on the planet

are growing rapidly. If we are able to make the planet and
civilization work, we face a magnificent future. If we fail,
we could be headed for a new Dark Age.
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The 21 Century CULTURE
 The 21st Century Learning

• Before, the basic learning skills is the 3Rs:

Reading, Writing and Arithmetic.
 The 21st Century Learning

• But today, they summarized the learning

skills into a formula: (3Rs x 7Cs) = 21st
Century Learning.
 7Cs

• Critical Thinking and Problem-solving

• Communication, information, and media literacy
• Collaboration, teamwork, and leadership
• Creativity and innovation
• Career and learning self reliance
• Cross-cultural understanding
• Computer & ICT literacy
 Coping with the demands of the digital
society, we, the digital native learners need
additional skills to react to the challenges of the
21st century. They listed the following skills:
• Anchoring: Staying focused on important tasks while
undergoing a deluge of distractions;
• Filtering: Managing knowledge flow and extracting
important elements;
• Connective with each other: Building networks in
order to continue to stay current and informed;
• Being Human Together: interacting at a human, not
only utilitarian, level to form social spaces;
• Creating and deriving meaning: Understanding
implications, comprehending meaning and impact;
• Evaluation and authentication: Determining the value
of knowledge and ensuring authencity;
• Altered processes of validation: Validating people
and ideas within appropriate context;
• Critical and Creative thinking: Employing standards
of thinking, knowing the box before going inside the
box;
• Pattern Recognition: Decision-making process in
defining a problem;
• Navigation of the knowledge landscape: Navigating
between repositories, people, technology, and ideas
while achieving intended purpose;
• Acceptance of uncertainty: Balancing what is known
with the unknown to see how existing knowledge
relates to what we do not know; and
• Contextualizing: Careful consideration of the
situation.
The 21st Century skills are a set of abilities
that students need to develop in order to
succeed in the Information Age.
It has three types.
Learning Skills
➢ Critical Thinking
➢Creative Thinking
➢Collaborating
➢Communication Life Skills
➢Flexibility
➢Initiative
Literacy Skills ➢ Social Skills
➢Information Literacy ➢Productivity
➢Media Literacy ➢ Leadership
➢Technology Literacy
 Why 21st Century Children Need to
Excel at Problem Solving

It is no longer enough for children just to

be able to read, count, or multiply. With
computers now doing many mundane
repetitive tasks for us, many jobs in today’s
world require analytical skills and the ability
to solve unexpected problems.
 Outside the Box

In today’s world, the routine operation of checking an

essay for spelling mistakes is becoming increasingly
automated. But handling new problems without pre-
specified training or knowledge has become a major part
of our working life. The daily work of an average employee
nowadays includes more and more non-routine tasks that
require novel solutions or at least some thinking outside of
manuals and orders.
 Assign reading for next meeting
activity

Read the poem THE PARADOX OF OUR TIME

by Bob Moorehead