21stcenturyclassrooms

20th Century vs. 21st Century Education

 * **20th Century Education/Classroom** || **21st Century Education/Classroom** ||
 * Time-based || Outcome-based ||
 * Focus: memorization of discrete facts || Focus: what students Know, Can Do and Are Like after all the details are forgotten. ||
 * Lessons focus on the lower level of Bloom’s Taxonomy – knowledge, comprehension and application || Learning is designed on upper levels of Blooms’ – synthesis, analysis and evaluation (and include lower levels as curriculum is designed down from the top.) ||
 * Textbook-driven || Research-driven ||
 * Passive learning || Active Learning ||
 * Learners work in isolation – classroom within 4 walls || Learners work collaboratively with classmates and others around the world – the Global Classroom ||
 * Teacher-centered: teacher is center of attention and provider of information || Student-centered: teacher is facilitator/coach ||
 * Little to no student freedom || Great deal of student freedom Integrated and Interdisciplinary curriculum ||
 * Grades averaged || Grades based on what was learned ||
 * Teacher is judge. No one else sees student work. || Self, Peer and Other assessments. Public audience, authentic assessments. ||
 * Curriculum/School is irrelevant and meaningless to the students || Curriculum is connected to students’ interests, experiences, talents and the real world. ||
 * Literacy is the 3 R’s – reading, writing and math || Multiple literacies of the 21st century – aligned to living and working in a globalized new millennium ||

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