Definitions of Traditional Literacies
This is known as "the ability to read and write" wherein reading implies a level of understanding.
What is Literacy?
It explores the emerging need to locate, verify, and ultimately manage online information.
What are Media and Cyber/Digital Literacies?
These are the 7 Key Features of 21st Century Education.
What are (1) Personalized learning, (2) Equity, diversity, and inclusivity, (3) Learning through doing, (4) Changed role of the teacher, (5) Community relationships, (6) Technology, and (7) Teacher professionalization?
This attribute promotes SDG #4: "Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all."
What is Creating/Adapting to constant personal and social change, and lifelong learning?
This is where students ask questions and refer to their readings as evidence for the answer.
What is Questioning?
It is the ability to correspond visual shapes to spoken sounds in order to decode written materials and translate them into oral language.
What is Basic Literacy?
It is the ability to navigate our own social networks, of both the online and off-line variety, to not only communicate clearly, but also to leverage resources which we ourselves might not possess.
What are Social and Financial Literacies?
This approach recognizes that not all students learn in the same manner.
What is Personalized Learning?
This attribute emphasizes that content areas must be integrated into various disciplines to cultivate learners' appreciation of their holistic importance.
What are Integrated and Interdisciplinary?
This a reading comprehension strategy wherein readers use the story elements or details to create mental images of the book.
What is Visualizing?
It is the ability to understand the meaning of what is being read.
What is Comprehension Literacy?
It discusses how our increasing ability to communicate with almost anyone, anywhere, in real time requires new skills and attitudes in interacting with people with cultures, perspectives, worldviews, and priorities different from our own.
What is Globalization and Multicultural Literacy?
This key feature of 21st century education leads us to increasingly realize how important community engagement is for learning.
What are Community Relationships?
This can be classified into learning skills, literacy skills, and life skills.
What are 21st Century skills?
It is the combination of information from separate sources.
What is Synthesizing?
It is the ability to read (i.e., decode and comprehend) written materials needed to perform everyday vocational tasks.
What is Functional or Practical Literacy?
It addresses the increasing need to understand the underlying messages behind the new “texts” of the 21st century.
What is Critical Literacy?
This approach acknowledges that we are much better at knowing, remembering, and using knowledge if we learn actively, rather than through passive learning.
What is Learning Through Doing?
This, when applied in the 21st century classroom, convinces the students of the importance and value of the subject matter.
What is Relevant, Rigorous, and Real world?
This is knowing the author's intent for writing and understanding the big ideas of the text.
What is Determining Importance?
It is the ability to infer that puno from the text "Punong-puno na ako sa'yo!" refers to 'being full' rather than the 'tree'.
What is Functional or Practical Literacy?
It is the emerging demands for knowing how to effectively and sustainably manage the natural resources that our increased industrialization and demands for productivity are so rapidly eating up.
What is Eco-Literacy and Artistic and Creative Literacy?
This shift changes teachers' roles from ultimate authorities to co-learners with the students.
What is Rethinking Learner and Teacher Roles?
This ensures that learners are developing applications of the learning content through real-life situations.
What are Project-based and Research-driven?
This is also "reading between the lines."
What is Inferring?