A case study of the successes and challenges of opening a 21st century learning community for elementary students

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Katherine A. Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
21St Century Learning ◽  
Model Description ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Stakeholder Perspectives ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Successes And Challenges

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This qualitative study serves as a model description for school districts to learn from the successes and challenges faced by one Midwest American district's launch of an innovative, project-based elementary school learning community. The researcher gathered stakeholder perspectives on the support systems needed to create a successful 21st century learning environment through interviews, focus groups, and archival data. Stakeholders included administrators, teachers, and parents. The support systems analyzed included the learning environment, curriculum and instruction, and professional development. Results suggest that flexibility, learner centricity, and 21st century skills are critical to all measured aspects of this 21st century learning community.

scholarly journals LESSON STUDY FOR LEARNING COMMUNITY (LSLC): PENDAMPINGAN PENYUSUNAN CAPTURE DESIGN DAN LESSON DESIGN PADA GURU SD/MI DI PONPES DARUSSOLIHIN NW KALIJAGA

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 602
Author(s):  
Muhammad Syazali ◽  
Baiq Niswatul Khair ◽  
Hasnawati Hasnawati ◽  
Lalu Wira Zain Amrullah
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Lesson Study ◽  
21St Century Learning ◽  
Lesson Design ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
The Right

ABSTRAKTuntutan pembelajaran abad 21 adalah kompetensi 4C - colaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity. Fasilitas pembelajaran yang tepat untuk ini adalah LSLC. Sejauh ini guru di SD/MI Ponpes Darussholihin NW Kalijaga belum pernah mengikuti kegiatan LSLC. Pengabdian ini sebagai langkah awal untuk mendampingi guru dalam ber-LSLC. Adapun tahapan pertama dalam LSLC adalah plan yg di dalamnya memuat penyusunan lesson design dan chapter design. Target luaran yaitu guru-guru SD/MI di Ponpes Darussolihin NW Kalijaga mampu menyusun chapter design dan lesson design. Kegiatan ini menggunakan metode pendampingan dan dilaksanakan melalui tiga tahapan yaitu: (1) workshop LSLC secara daring, (2) presentasi dari tim terkait chapter design dan lesson design, dan (3) mendampingi peserta dalam kelompok untuk mengembangkan chapter design dan lesson design. Kegiatan ini berjalan dengan baik dan lancar. Workshop online terselenggara pada interval 12 – 14 Agustus 2021. Presentasi dari tim dan pendampingan kelompok dalam mengembangkan chapter design dan lesson design terlaksana pada tanggal 18 September 2021 di MI NW Kalijaga. Jumlah peserta yang hadir sebanyak 33 peserta dari beberapa SD/MI di bawah naungan Ponpes Darussolihin NW Kalijaga. Diakhir kegiatan pendampingan, hasil kolaborasi masing-masing kelompok guru telah berhasil menyusun chapter design dan lesson design dengan kualitas yang baik dan siap untuk dimplementasikan dalam pembelajaran. Kata kunci: chapter design; lesson design; pendamipingan LSLC; ponpes NW kalijaga. ABSTRACTThe demands of 21st century learning are 4C competencies - collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity. The right learning facility for this is LSLC. So far, teachers at SD/MI Ponpes Darussholihin NW Kalijaga have never participated in LSLC activities. This service is the first step to assist teachers in LSLC. The first stage in the LSLC is a plan which includes the preparation of lesson designs and chapter designs. The output target is that SD/MI teachers at Ponpes Darussolihin NW Kalijaga are able to compile chapter designs and lesson designs. This activity uses the mentoring method and is carried out in three stages, namely: (1) online LSLC workshops, (2) presentations from teams related to chapter design and lesson design, and (3) assisting participants in groups to develop chapter designs and lesson designs. This activity went well and smoothly. An online workshop will be held on August 12-14, 2021. Presentations from the team and group assistance in developing chapter design and lesson design will take place on September 18, 2021 at MI NW Kalijaga. The number of participants who attended was 33 participants from several SD/MI under the auspices of Ponpes Darussolihin NW Kalijaga. At the end of the mentoring activity, the results of the collaboration of each group of teachers have succeeded in compiling chapter designs and lesson designs with good quality and ready to be implemented in learning. Kata kunci: chapter design; lesson design; LSLC mentoring; ponpes NW kalijaga. 

scholarly journals Enhancing teachers' ICT capacity for the 21st century learning environment: Three cases of teacher education in Korea

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyeonjin Kim ◽  
Hyungshin Choi ◽  
Jeonghye Han ◽  
Hyo-Jeong So
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Divergent Thinking ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
21St Century Learning ◽  
Adaptive Expertise ◽  
Multiple Sources

<blockquote>Korean teachers are generally considered well trained to integrate ICT into their teaching since the inception of the first IT Master Plan of Korea in 1996. However, the emergence and adoption of cutting-edge technologies create demands for evolving roles and competencies of teachers in the new knowledge society. Given this changing landscape of teacher education, the purpose of this paper is to explore new educational approaches to enhance teachers' ICT capabilities in the 21st century learning environment in Korea. The literature indicates that the new roles of teachers include new media literacy skills and adaptive expertise with efficiency and innovation. From this perspective, we examined three cases: (1) learning Scratch for computational and creative thinking, (2) learning robotics as emerging technology for convergent and divergent thinking, and (3) learning by design with ICT for systems thinking. The new approaches, such as focusing on thinking skills rather than technical skills, and providing various contexts different from ordinary classroom lessons, help teachers to develop adaptive expertise. On the other hand, participants in all three cases indicated difficulties in integrating new ideas, dealing with various course activities, and understanding unfamiliar design contexts in their comprehensive projects. For further studies, it is necessary to investigate learning processes and outcomes of teachers' learning with more depth and a larger number of cases and multiple sources of data to verify the potentials and challenges of these approaches more rigorously.</blockquote><p> </p>

scholarly journals Digital Storytelling for 21st Century Learning: A Study on Pre-Service Teachers’ Perception

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 226
Author(s):  
Siti Fairuz Dalim ◽  
Nurul Zakiah Muhamad Azliza ◽  
Norezah Ibrahim ◽  
Zulinda Ayu Zulkipli ◽  
Mohammad Mubarrak Mohd Yusof
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
21St Century ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
21St Century Learning ◽  
Pedagogical Tools ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact

Digital Storytelling is one of the new pedagogical tools that call upon students’ creativity and helps them to “learn by doing”. It is one of the important steps towards creating the 21st-century learning environment as it promotes the integration of student-centred and technology-enriched learning environment for learners. Despite the many benefits that this learning tool has to offer, many educators are still reluctant to integrate this kind of technology in their classes which resulted in low implementation of this technology among the educators.  Therefore, this study is intended to determine pre-service teachers’ experience and perceptions of digital storytelling for 21st-century skills in a learning environment. A set of questionnaire was distributed to 150 trainee teachers from the Faculty of Education in one of the public universities in Malaysia. The result of this study reveals that pre-service teachers’ have moderately experienced the use of digital storytelling in their learning (M=2.98; SD=1.332). The finding also showed that the pre-service teachers responded positively towards the use of digital storytelling in the classroom (M=3.94; SD=0.713). The correlation analysis further showed that the pre-service teachers’ experience with digital storytelling has significantly given the impact on their perception towards the implementation of this tool in the teaching and learning process. Considering the many advantages of the digital storytelling towards the enhancement of 21st-century skills among the younger generations, therefore more aggressive steps need to be done to strengthen the teaching preparation programme in higher educational institutions. This is very important to ensure that the future teachers produced are well-equipped with all the teaching skills and technologies to educate the next millennial generations. KEYWORDS: 21st-century learning, Millennial,  Digital storytelling, Pre-service teachers, Student-centered

scholarly journals Young children’s language-based agency in multilingual contexts in Luxembourg and Israel

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mila Schwartz ◽  
Claudine Kirsch ◽  
Simone Mortini
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Educational Settings ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Linguistic Backgrounds ◽  
Longitudinal Case Studies

AbstractDrawing on two longitudinal case-studies, this study aimed to identify some salient characteristics of the agentic behaviour of two young emergent multilinguals in two different multilingual contexts: Luxembourg and Israel. Despite the fact that the studies were conducted independently, the two cases were analysed together owing to the similarities in the research methods such as video-recorded observations, and semi-structured interviews with teachers and parents. The data were analysed through thematic and conversational analyses. Findings showed that a boy who learned Luxembourgish in Luxembourg and a girl who learned Hebrew in Israel, were outgoing and active learners who influenced their learning environment. We identified 10 types of agentic behaviour, including engaging in repetition after peers and the teacher, creatively producing language, translanguaging, and self-monitoring. Despite differences of the children’s sociocultural and linguistic backgrounds, and the language policies of their educational settings, we found a striking overlap in their language-based agentic behaviours. We suggest that the identified types can encourage further research in this field. Although our study with talkative children allowed us to observe many types of agentic behaviours, we cannot claim that less outgoing children or children who do not show the same behaviours do not have ways of expressing their agency.

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