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What is 21st Century Literacy, ZAKIRAH TESL 2 (3.11.2020) - Coggle Diagram
What is 21st Century Literacy
Introduction to 21st Century Literacy
To fully understand scientific methodology, students need to know about the research university, academic disciplines, and the specific work that scientists do within their disciplines.
Students with only minimal mathematical knowledge can still be introduced to both qualitative and quantitative scientific methods through an understanding of key concepts, theories, and data.
Require the effective use of language and large amounts of specific information about the world.
Students be able to concretely grasp how knowledge is created, debated, and refined through the scientific process.
Includes new literacy skills (critical thinking, scientific reasoning, multi-cultural awareness)
Knowing how to learn and know.
21st Century literacy includes traditional literacy skills (reading, writing, arguing).
Conceptual frameworks: (1) The history of literacy, (2) How knowledge is created and how different forms of knowledge are used as tools to know, (3) and finally how knowledge is communicated through writing.
Focus on process, rather than products, is based on the concept of social interaction through language as the fundamental basis for learning and knowledge creation.
21st century literacy must also include political literacy.
21st century literacy is a collection of many higher order skills
Things Students Need to Obtain from 21st Century Literacy
Students need to know how concepts work to define and categorize knowledge, and how concepts can be organized into conceptual frameworks that interconnect facts into larger fields of knowledge.
Students need to be able to understand concepts as tools, which can be used to solve real-world problems.
students need to recognize threshold concepts which enable new ways to see and know the world.
Utilizing scientific research on cognition and meta-cognition, students need to understand how the brain creates and uses subjective knowledge, and the different processes that create objective knowledge.
Students need to understand the theoretical purposes and the concrete practices of research, thinking, and writing.
Students need an understanding of both qualitative and quantitative literacy.
Students need to be able to do, not just know.
Students should be exposed to all major scientific methodologies.
Students need background knowledge and training to become engaged citizens capable of fostering the public good.
Students also need to learn about how knowledge is created, especially how the most reliable knowledge is made through scientific methods.
Students need to be able to critically evaluate the reliability of diverse sources of knowledge in order to construct knowledge with scientific methods.
Stydents need to know more and able to do more than they did in the past.
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