QUIZ 1

NAME ARA JANE R. PANTON Course & Year BSED 3B

1. The following concepts refer to the implications of 21t Century Education for teachers

EXCEPT one. Which is the exception?

a. Teachers must maintain students’ interest by helping them see the connection of what
they learn for life with the real world

b. Teachers must instill curiosity in students because it is fundamental to lifelong learning

c. Teachers must be consistent in how they teach

d. Teachers must excite learners to become even more resourceful so that they will
continue to learn outside the formal school

2. The new breed of teachers takes advantage of technology that enables them to
understand, integrate, create, communicate and compute printed and written materials.
Which best describes the 21st century teacher?

a. Multiliterate

b. Multi specialist

c. Multi skilled

d. Multitasked

3. What does it mean to collaborate?

a. To “collar” someone into believing what you believe

b. To work together in a teaming situation

c. TO argue

d. To grow a tree

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 4. What does the word “adaptability” mean?

a. To be able to adjust to something new

b. To be able to understand something new

c. To take control of a situation

d. To understand how media messages are made

5. What makes "Communication" a 21st Century Skill?

a. Today, people are communicating less and less.

b. Because it's the era of internet.

c. People need to clearly express their ideas to others while listening carefully to them.

d. It's just there

6. What is thinking skill?

a. Reasoning and analytical thinking

b. Have leadership

c. Pursuing knowledge, learning resources

d. With reasoning and analytical thinking

7. Which of the following statements is not true about 21st century teachers

a. Allow students to solve real world problems

b. Give performance based assessment

c. Allow students to construct their own understanding of subject matter

d. Use lecture as teaching method

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 8. The following are contexts and perspectives of 21st Century education as a paradigm
shift from that of the 20h Century, EXCEPT one. Which one is the exception?

a. Integrated and interdisciplinary

b. Time-based

c. Global classroom-oriented

d. Relevant and real-world

9. To attain 21st Century skills among learners relevant approaches and prospects that
schools should impose. If you arrange the following approaches based on effectiveness, in
terms of developing 21st Century Skills which one comes last?

a. Bring learners to the real world where the action is.

b. Expose them to a great deal of researches and other inquiry-based modalities using
technology.

c. Provide them information on direct instruction principles and perspectives.

d. Guide them in searching for truth and exploring their own learning experiences.

10. Which component is the most important in 21 st Century Learning?

a. Learning and Innovation Skills

b. All are important as they are interconnected

c. Information, Media, and Technology Skills

d. Life and Career Skills

11. Which of the following is TRUE about New Literacy?

a. A state of being able to read and write

b. The ability to correspond visual shapes to spoken sounds in order to decode written

materials and translate them into oral language.

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 c. The ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, and compute using

printed and written materials.

d. The ability to understand the meaning of what is being read.

12. What does the statement “with the advent of information and Communication
Technology, learning has become borderless” mean?

a. Information acquisition and dissemination as well as delivery of education all over the

globe has been made with ICT

b. Boundaries and limitations are set in relation to acquisition of knowledge and education

c. Teaching and learning today are expensive and unaffordable

d. The use of internet, modern laptops, tablet, iPhone and other gadgets has borders

II. Answer the following

1. Why has UNESCO expanded the definition of literacy? (2pts)

They expand its definition because UNESCO has been at the forefront of global
literacy efforts since 1946, advancing the vision of a literate world for all. It views acquiring
and improving literacy skills throughout life as an intrinsic part of the right to education.
The “multiplier effect” of literacy empowers people, enables them to participate fully in
society and contributes to improve livelihoods. Literacy is also a driver for sustainable
development in that it enables greater participation in the labor market; improved child
and family health and nutrition; reduces poverty and expands life opportunities, Beyond its
conventional concept as a set of reading, writing and counting skills, literacy is now
understood as a means of identification, understanding, interpretation, creation, and
communication in an increasingly digital, text-mediated, information-rich and fast-
changing world.

2. Differentiate the 3 categories of literacy according to Miller? (3pts)

The first one is the basic literacy, according to Miller, means the ability to use
correspondences of visual shapes, to spoken sounds, in order to decode written materials,
and to translate them into oral language. Miller noted that “comprehension literacy means

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 having ability to understand the meaning of verbal materials. Functional or practical
literacy means ability to read (decode and comprehend) materials needed to perform
everyday vocational tasks".

3. What are some of the implications to teachers as brought by the 21st-century education

(3pts) (Give at least 3)

Research found that the 21st centuries skill application has more measurable
benefits in some sections of life, such as critical thinking and problem solving, initiative,
creativity, and entrepreneurship, communication, teamwork, metacognition (change of
mindset), digital literature.

4. Teacher A is a traditional technology teacher while Teacher B is a digital technology

Teachers. Who is better equipped Teacher A or B can handle the 21st-century learners?

Explain (4pts)

A teacher with “traditional technology” will have a good basic understanding of

digital. One who is purely digitally based will be more apt to get stuck when the projector
bulb blows or the power goes out. Both skill sets are needed. All the technology a good
teacher needs is a stick and a dry patch of earth. But we cannot deny the fact that the Digital
technology teachers are more equipped that can handle the 21 st century learners, they can
easily be understood by their students as they can understand the technology.

5. What are 21st-century skills? Explain each skill in 2 or 3 sentences

21st century skills refer to the knowledge, life skills, career skills, habits, and traits
that are critically important to student success in today’s world, particularly as students
move on to college, the workforce, and adult life. The following list provides a brief
illustrative overview of the knowledge, skills, work habits, and character traits commonly
associated with 21st century skills: Critical thinking, problem solving, reasoning, analysis,
interpretation, synthesizing information, Research skills and practices, interrogative
questioning those are just some of the 21st century skills.

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