Students’ and teachers’ competencies for the 21st century
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15291/ai.1270Keywords:
competence ICT, modern teaching, students, teachersAbstract
The paper reflects on the competencies necessary for quality and productive life in the 21st centurywhich is marked by the widespread use of ICT in all areas of life and work. It gives an overviewof the different models of competencies in witch, by the developed IT skills and informationliteracy, there are also a wider competencies such as, for example, those of communication,cooperation, competence for creative and critical thinking and problem solving, etc. Specialattention is devoted to the identification of recent students’ and teachers’ skills and competenciesthat support teaching and learning and that are further developing through the contemporaryopen class. For teachers, to be able to effectively integrate ICT in class process of learning andteaching, it is necessary that they have built two types of skills and competencies: at least thebasic skills of information literacy and multimedia didactic competencies. While teachers candevelop the basic technological skills through the common computer courses for the generalpublic, building multimedia didactic competence requires specialized teachers’ training, which isgeared towards the specific methods of ICT use in teaching. Competences represent a dynamicphenomenon caused by the characteristics of a particular context and variable over time, so it isvitally to continuously reflect on the skills and competencies necessary for life in the 21st century.
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