Tag: creativity

Hello my fellow audience,

There is nothing in this world that time has changed, including foreign language teaching. Era by era we’ve seen how our learning or teaching adapted to the circumstances we lived in. Unfortunately we’ve also continued with the same learning skills in different periods of time. But; educators, methodologists and teaching experts realised that we had to have learning and skills which belong to this century, the era we live in. Eventually, an innovative and creative learning which belong to 21^st century was born.

21^st century learning provides various skills for Ss to develop as they will be essential for their lives in the future and changes the way they learn.  21^st century learning includes learning and innovation skills, ICT skills and life and career skills.  Learning and innovation skills are important in an English language classroom. These skills focused on 4 core points;

• Critical Thinking Skills
• Creativity
• Communication
• Collaboration

Students need all 4Cs to succeed in a foreign language classroom and to develop their communicative skills to speak easily with native speakers. Nonetheless, 21^st century learning is learner-centred which also puts an emphasis on learner as “doer” or “creator”. Personalized, creative real world tasks make students use the language beyond the classroom as it is one of the purposes of 21^st century learning.

I would love to finish my post with a quote from Sir Ken Robinson: “Our task is to educate their whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something out of it.”

Thanks for reading!