TEACHING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Abstract
In recent years, there has been a call for educators around the world to prepare students for the 21st century. This is in response to a need to help students navigate and optimize opportunities and resources available in an increasingly globalized world and inter-connected social landscape. This demands students to go beyond the learning of content knowledge and examination skills to be equipped with a more holistic education that emphasizes life skills like communication, creativity, cross-cultural collaboration and understandings, and critical thinking. Thus, although technology and its affordances have come to symbolize and define what the 21st century is about, the focus of this paper is not on technology but pedagogy, a pedagogy that teachers can consider to prepare their students for the 21st century landscape.
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