21st Century Learning

In 21^st Century, technology has improved in an unimaginable speed and everything around us adapted so quickly and almost perfectly to it. It has a huge effect on our lives, undoubtedly. All the benefits it provides to us; it also affects educational part of our life. Educators and academics has been working on to prepare students to future and to help them achieve their best, encourage them to attain information by themselves.

Educational systems which are used so far (late 20^th century) were based on memorizing the giving information, putting your best effort to give the exact answer in exams that are taught in class and were always forcing students to depend on their teachers. 21^st century learning would help these to resolve but how exactly?

There are some researches has been put into work by researchers and educators. They have found some strategies to be used in order to achieve the needs of this century. The 4Cs of 21^st century are the most popular ones among them. What are those 4Cs?

1. Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is all about solving problems and finding solutions. Students are not content with what they are given to them but are discovering the what’s right or wrong. Thanks to the internet the possibility of them to do it is even more likely today. They would be asking the question “Why?” and “How?” rather than “What?”. More questions asked more solutions to be found!

2. Creativity

Creativity is to turn what’s on mind to reality. Looking at a problem from different angles and letting out the free thoughts go around yourself. It’s encouraged that students think outside of the box. It’s aimed to motivate and support students to express their opinions and to give them the chance to create resourceful solutions to problems.

3. Collaboration

Collaboration is simply to work together. It’s important for students because they’ll be working others from different cultures and backgrounds in the rest of their lives. So, learning how to collaborate lead them to being tolerant to other ideas.

4. Communication

Communication is to convey ideas and opinions more efficiently and clearly. Time is all we account for so in that matter we must be very quick and clear when we convey our messages. It also helps to prevent misunderstandings once we are good at communication.

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