21st-century learning: Is it vital to adapt to it? 

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Thanks for stopping by.

As I said in my welcoming post, I am trying to help your learning and teaching process. With this post, I intend to inform you about 21st-century learning and the skills that it requires. 

I am writing a post about 21st-century learning since English is one of the most crucial subjects in the 21st-century learning themes besides mathematics and economics. By learning English, you can approximate to meet the requirement of the last century. Also, to understand the world better that you are living in, you should know how to think, evaluate, and learn. By adapting 21st- century learning, students and teachers can acquire new skills and facilitate their learning.

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In the last century, society has undergone many changes in terms of needs and requirements. Digital and economic changes have been the most crucial ones that influenced every part of people’s lives. These alternations in society lead other areas as education and business to transform into another form. With technology, the opportunities to access information improve. The abundance of opportunities  causes rapid consumption of information. Having enormous amounts of information on the net complicates students’ lives and requires them to have some skills such as critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, problem-solving, flexibility, social interaction, information and communication technologies(ICT), productivity, and adaptability to survive in this century. 

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While the Millennials used to go to libraries to search for information or depend on their teachers, the new generation doesn’t have a such dependency on their teachers. Therefore, 21st-century learning also switches the roles of teachers. Years ago, teachers were supposed to be the source of information and everyone wanted them to know everything, but with alternations that take place in the 21st century, students require to think, analyze, and evaluate what they had in their hands. The fact that students need a different range of skills is that teachers compel students to produce and create. Without skills such as collaboration or critical thinking, new generations blur their understanding and exclude themselves from learning. Furthermore, being widely skilled helps students to have economic, civic, media, information, health literacy, and global awareness.

To sum up, because countless alternations happened in the 21st century, students need to master some skills to succeed. These skills help them to be literate in various areas and aware of their world.

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