21st-Century Students in 20th Century Classrooms

Author(s):  
Jason Marshall ◽  
Karen Thomas ◽  
Sandra Robinson

This chapter focuses on the transition from teacher-centred learning to student-centred learning. First, we situate the importance of student-centred learning within the Angloplone Caribbean experience. Second, we outline ways in which on-going professional development centers institutions interested in making the transition to student-centered learning. Third, we describe some techniques that can be used to engender student-centered approaches to teaching and learning. Finally, we conclude by summarizing student-centred pedagogical challenges and implications.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-150
Author(s):  
Guntur Maha Putra ◽  
Novica Irawati ◽  
Adi Prijuna

Abstract: As a formal education institution, acculturation of techniques in Teaching and Learning Activities (KBM) is required by each lesson teacher to be able to transfer knowledge to students maximal and optimally. So far the teaching carried out by the teachers of SMA 2 Kisaran is more dominant in learning done face-to-face in the classroom, so that learning requires the mind and energy that is extra because it is done repeatedly in the classroom and the hours that different. Starting from the above, the dedication team sought solutions so that teaching can be acculturated by online learning using blog media to publish teachers' teaching materials to the internet. It is expected that online-based teaching techniques, one of which is outlined in the making and utilization of blogs can stimulate interest from students to access teaching materials that have been published online, both in the form of text, images, audio and learning videos that have been recorded and uploaded by the teacher into his blog whenever and wherever it is, so that it will create student centered learning and learning objectives can be achieved. Keywords: blogs, teaching materials, online publications, videos, student center learning.  Abstrak: Sebagai institusi pendidikan formal maka diperlukan akulturasi teknik dalam Kegiatan Belajar Mengajar (KBM) yang dilakukan oleh masing-masing guru pelajaran untuk dapat mentransfer ilmu pengetahuan kepada peserta didik secara maksimal dan optimal. Selama ini pengajaran yang dilakukan oleh guru-guru SMA Negeri 2 Kisaran lebih dominan ke-pembelajaran yang dilakukan secara tatap muka di dalam kelas, sehingga pembelajaran membutuhkan pikiran dan tenaga yang ekstra karena dilakukan secara berulang-ulang pada kelas dan jam yang berbeda. Berawal dari hal diatas maka tim pengabdian mencari solusi agar pengajaran dapat diakulturasi dengan pembelajaran secara online menggunakan media blog untuk mempublikasikan bahar ajar para guru ke internet. Diharapkan dengan teknik  pengajaran berbasis online salah satunya yang dituangkan dalam pembuatan dan pemanfaatan blog dapat merangsang minat dari para siswa untuk mengakses bahan ajar yang telah dipublikasikan secara online baik informasi berupa text, gambar, audio maupun video pembelajaran yang telah direkam dan diupload oleh guru ke dalam blognya kapan dan dimanapun berada, sehingga akan tercipta pembelajaran berpusat pada siswa (Student Centred Learning) dan tujuan pembelajaran dapat tercapai. Kata kunci: blog, bahan ajar, publikasi online, video, Student Center Learning.


Author(s):  
Despo Ktoridou

In recent years, the concept of entrepreneurship and the idea of entrepreneurship education are not novel. Entrepreneurship education at the university level is mostly taught in business schools. Entrepreneurial skills, though, are not only necessary for students who become entrepreneurs. Science and Management Information Systems (MIS) specializations are preparing students to effectively integrate into the competitive working environments of the 21st century. Nevertheless, a common observation is that it is often difficult for students to see any motivation in cultivating mainly entrepreneurial thinking through a course of Management of Innovation and Technology. Academics and practitioners, who teach related topics, especially to multidisciplinary classes, continuously seek innovative teaching and learning approaches to impose more learning responsibility on students, mainly to cultivate their entrepreneurial thinking and acting. This chapter examines the impact of Student-Centered Learning (SCL) introduced in the new multidisciplinary undergraduate course MGT370 Management of Innovation and Technology at the University of Nicosia. The study shows that students and lecturer effectively adopted SCL and commented on its worth for their teaching and learning. Further, the study confirms the implementation of SCL as a significant contribution in cultivating students’ entrepreneurial thinking in meeting the needs of the 21st century.


Author(s):  
Sevinç GÜLSEÇEN

It is argued that the digital technology has made possible the vast range of applications and media forms including virtual reality, digital special effects, digital film, digital television, electronic music, computer games, multimedia, the Internet, the World Wide Web, digital telephony and so on [8]. Digital transformation has been particularly influential in new directions of society.Providing schools with digital technology promises a high return on investment. The presence of computers and Internet access raises technology literacy and skills, better preparing the future generations to participate in the information society [12]. To this end, schools represent ideal access points because they cover a large part of the population, especially in developing countries. Starting from 1990s, many educators have been realised the potential of Internet for educational purposes and began to introduce it into classrooms. According to [10] the popularity of web-based teaching and learning lies in the strengths of its distributed nature and the case of its browsing facility. Both the use of digital technology and increased interest in student-centered learning may lead to a significant change of the teacher’s role, as well as the recognition of the active role of the learner in the learning process.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Kwabena Ntim

This survey measured the perspectives of teacher trainees, classrooms teachers and stakeholders in teacher education regarding factors that could enhance teaching and quality teacher education in Ghana. Findings from the survey indicate that teachers’ content knowledge was considered appreciable, but more emphasis needed to be paid to cultivating critical and inquiry skills among Ghanaian teachers. Additionally, efforts were to be made in teacher education towards a more constructivists approach to teaching, with focus on student-centered teaching and attention to student diversity, as well as enhancing teacher professional development, especially in the area of academic research. Implications for policy and practice suggested among others, are that teacher education in Ghana needs a more professional development that is both data-based and standard driven, as well as collaboratively developed, as criteria to assess teacher quality and possible certification.


2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-193
Author(s):  
Cynthia Caetano ◽  
Roseli Luedke ◽  
Ivan Carlos Ferreira Antonello

ABSTRACT Learning is a complex construct that involves several factors, mainly the interaction between teachers and students in the process of teaching and learning. Understanding how students learn and which factors influence academic performance is essential information for lesson planning and evaluation, in addition to allowing a better use of students’ learning potential and outcomes. The ability to constructively modify one’s behavior depends on how well we combine our experiences, reflections, conceptualizations, and planning to make improvements. This seems particularly relevant in medical education, where students are expected to retain, recall, and apply vast amounts of information assimilated throughout their training period. Over the years, there has being a gradual shift in medical education from a passive learning approach to an active learning approach. To support the learning environment, educators need to be aware of the different learning styles of their students to effectively tailor instructional strategies and methods to cater to students’ learning needs. However, the space for reflection on the process of teaching is still incipient in higher-education institutions in Brazil. The present article proposes a critical review of the importance of identifying students’ learning styles in undergraduate medical education. Different models exist for assessing learning styles. Different styles can coexist in equilibrium (multimodal style) or predominate (unimodal style) in the same individual. Assessing students’ learning styles can be a useful tool in education, once it is possible to analyze with what kind of learning students can better develop themselves, improving their knowledge and influencing positively in the process of learning. Over the last century, medical education experienced challenges to improve the learning process and curricular reform. Also, this has resulted in crucial changes in the field of medical education, with a shift from a teacher centered and subject based teaching to the use of interactive, problem based, student centered learning.


RENOTE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 450-459
Author(s):  
Deivid Eive dos S. Silva ◽  
Aline De Oliveira Sousa ◽  
Marcela R. Oliveira ◽  
Marialina Corrêa Sobrinho ◽  
Eduardo Todt ◽  
...  

Education 4.0 is defined as a student-centered learning model that prepares young for the challenges of the 21st Century, how to deal with emerging technological resources and processes. This case study aimed to encourage 21st Century skills and competencies seen as relevant to Education 4.0, such as teamwork, communication, autonomy, creativity, and innovation. In this study, we analyzed the feedbacks collected to identify which skills were encouraged in undergraduate and graduate students during one semester of the Mobile Robotics discipline, using Project-Based Learning (PBL). Students carried out projects and answered a self-assessment questionnaire about their skills. The qualitative analysis of the case study followed the procedures of the Grounded Theory method. The results indicated that learning based on robotics projects could encourage teamwork, communication, and organization skills.


2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-112
Author(s):  
Yahdi Siradj

Abstract: Nowadays the process of teaching and learning not must wear conventional style where lecturer explained the matter in front of class, and student listened. By Technology Development learning was introduced many new methods which can optimalized the absorb knowledge inside or outside class, at once interactive and pleasure. Such as Student Centered Learning (SCL). On lecture matter Computer Networks in the Politeknik Telkom, SCL method can be implemented with combination of e-quiz, cloud based sharing files, toke Games, and dividing teaching session in the class become 1hour discussion and One hour consultation with lecturer. This method combinantion make Computer Networks learning more effective, interactive, and pleasure.Keywords: Student Centered Learning, Computer Networks, E-quiz, Cloud, Game ABSTRAK: Saat ini proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran tidak harus bergaya konvensional dimana dosen menerangkan di depan kelas, dan mahasiswa mendengarkan di mejanya masing-masing. Melalui perkembangan teknologi pendidikan diperkenalkan berbagai metode baru yang dapat mengoptimalkan tingkat penyerapan ilmu di kelas maupun di luar kelas, sekaligus interaktif dan menyenangkan. Salah satunya adalah Pembelajaran berpusat pada siswa (SCL). Pada mata kuliah Jaringan Komputer di Politeknik Telkom, metode SCL diimplementasikan dengan memadukan e-quiz, cloud based sharing files, token game dan membagi sesi pengajaran di kelas menjadi 1 jam diskusi dan 1 jam pembahasan oleh dosen. Perpaduan metode ini menjadikan pembelajaran Jaringan Komputer menjadi lebih efektif, interaktif, dan menyenangkan.Kata kunci: Pembelajaran berpusat pada siswa, Jaringan Komputer, E-quiz, Cloud, Game


Biotechnology ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1581-1606
Author(s):  
Érika Bertozzi de Aquino Mattos ◽  
Isabelle Mazza Guimarães ◽  
Alexander Gonçalves da Silva ◽  
Claudia Marcia Borges Barreto ◽  
Gerlinde Agate Platais Brasil Teixeira

In the traditional instructional paradigm, faculty members act like actors on a stage. They memorize their speech and deliver it to the audience, many times with very little to no interaction at all with the audience. On the other hand, in the student-centered learning paradigm, faculty members act like coaches interacting full time with their team. This chapter is based on a study conducted at a Brazilian Federal University. The study depicts the distance between science production and teaching, and reports on experiences using smart phone clickers to track and analyze students' content acquisition. The objective is to improve the interactive quality of teaching and learning, thus promoting steps to shift towards a student-centered instructional paradigm. Although smartphones were used in this study, with wearable technologies continuing to grow, other wearables such as smart glasses and smart watches could be used instead.


Author(s):  
Scott J. Marakovits

The purpose of this chapter is to identify and offer solutions based on four barriers to facilitating 21st century competencies through digitalization. The first barrier includes the technological challenges faced by families, including devices and reliable broadband internet. The second barrier explores the training and support needed by teachers in implementing digital tools and instructional technology. The third barrier is a pedagogical shift from teacher-centered to student-centered teaching and learning, especially in remote environments where this approach is needed for student engagement. The fourth barrier is training for parents and families to become familiar with the technology and digital tools that their children are using. Practical solutions backed by research are presented by the author for consideration by teachers, administrators, and the school community. Prompts for reflection and discussion based on identified barriers and real-life examples are presented by the author at the conclusion of the chapter.


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