This week I took time to research 21st century learning. I came across challenges in my research, but came to the conclusion that most people agree learning in a 21st century classroom revolves around collaboration, technology, and student centered learning. I dive into each aspect here. This research was interesting for me specifically, because I don’t know any different than 21st century classrooms. I have grown up in an age where all I know is how to learn and teach with these three components, so finding out that not all teachers have the same experience was interesting. Something that I found difficult within this project was trying to think about areas that I could improve my teaching/ move towards teaching in a 21st century environment. Because I know no different and all of my education instruction has been centered around aspects of 21st century learning, I found it difficult to pick out an area that I was largely lacking in. While I am by no means a perfect teacher - very far from, actually - I feel as though I have always centered my teaching around students, technology, and collaboration. When I think about all the information I found, one thing that sticks out to me is student-centered teaching. Student-centered teaching is one of the biggest components of learning, but it also seems to be highly controversial. In a 2003 study, authors Pedersen and Liu even found that “a difficulty [they] anticipated in examining teachers’ beliefs about student-centered learning was the lack of a common definition for this term” (Pedersen and Liu, 2003), showing that teachers don’t even know what student-centered learning is. In a perfect world, all lessons are differentiated for every learner and each student is presented information in their learning style… but is this realistically possible for teachers?? References: Abb, M. (2022, June 11). 21st Century Learning [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/KuNQuTivTjA Pedersen, S., & Liu, M. (2003). Teachers’ beliefs about issues in the implementation of a student-centered learning environment. Educational Technology Research and Development, 51(2), 57-76.
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