When the Ministry of Education talks about "bringing our educational system into the 21st century", it is pointing us in the direction of a change in our entire way of thinking about education - from the dual perspective of both student and teacher.
Three tenets compose this new philosophy:
1. A new literacy, based on media, information and communication, or, as it's known by its common name: ICT – Information communication technology (Enter: Internet!). Yet this is only one of the three principles that make up the new philosophy. Indeed, I consider it an "enabling principle".
2. A change in our thinking processes - a switch to creative and critical thinking (Enter: HOTS) which manifests itself both in the types of questions and assignments we give our students and in our own lesson objectives as well.
3. A shift to "connectivity" on the one hand and "autonomous learning" on the other; the development of interpersonal skills and collaborative work as well as individual research skills (Enter: Projects).
Unfortunately, many of us are forgetting principles 2 & 3; many of us are focusing on ICT in the classroom as if ICT is the be-all and end- all of the New Pedagogy; many of us are just integrating digital tools within our old type of lesson plan because we were told to do so.
So how do we implement the New Pedagogy in the classroom?
Three words: Action; Interaction and Reaction!!
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