A NEW AGE IN EDUCATION: 21st CENTURY LEARNING

 

People opened their eyes to 21st century with changes they had never experienced before. These changes include huge innovations like Internet and computers. At the beginning they were not accessible to everyone; however, now most of us carry both of them in our pockets wherever we go. In this rapidly changing world, we teachers are responsible for equipping our students with skills required to adapt to this new system.

21st century learning skills include digital literacy, creativity, problem solving and critical thinking. But how can we use these skills to enhance our language learning process? Internet provides us with a lot of language sources around the world. It is only possible with digital literacy that we access to information and share it with others. Creativity is required to make the information appealing and effective. Also, through critical thinking and problem solving skills, new information is integrated into language learning process.

As a result, we are obliged to make our students keep up with the developments of today’s world. In order to do that they need to have some basic skills. To teach our students these essential skills, first we need to develop ours. Only then we can help them in their journey.