Meeting 14: 21st century environments
What Is a 21st-Century Curriculum?
Today's world requires a multi-dimensional approach to the learning experience. A 21st-century skills-based curriculum pivots away from content acquisition and rote memorization to focus on the skills and abilities that will best serve our generation of young minds. Student engagement and hands-on, interdisciplinary learning are championed over conferring information.
The 21st-century classroom focuses on a creative, collaborative approach to learning. In a computer programming class, students play musical chairs to solve a coding task. They write a few lines of code, move chairs, write a few lines on that person's screen, then repeat the process. Compared to completing the coding task on their own, students learn more by seeing how their peers approached the problem and found a solution.