UNIVERSITY OF RWANDACOLLEGE OF EDUCATIONAL POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN TEACHING AND LEARNING INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAssignment: Develop a critical essay on the question "How much is knowledge worth". In your essay, critically explain the rationale for your choice and how that knowledge should be taught and assessed. In the following paragraph, I took ideas from a paper about what education is worth in the 21st century and I find it relevant because it is adapted to the unstable situations the world lives in, so they are adaptable to the situation. The call for 21st century knowledge frameworks is based largely on the assertion that education has failed to prepare students for the demands of the 21st century. Schooling (in terms of organization, structure and format) remains much the same today as it was during the 20th century. Recommendations on 21st century knowledge have emerged from educators such as Howard Gardner (Gardner, 2008), popular writers such as Daniel Pink (Pink, 2005), and organizations such as the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2007) and the Center for Public Education (Jerald, 2009). These individuals and organizations argued that it had become increasingly clear that the workforce required by an increasingly globalized economy requires an entirely different model of education, one that transcends 20th century repetition skills, basic skills, applied knowledge, and limited literacy. . With this in mind, we aim to understand and define what 21st century learning actually means, according to those involved in the discussion. This work is critically important because it will help determine what and, equally important, how we teach... middle of paper... structures have made physical proximity optional, not only in education, but also in fields such as business and medicine, and made the willingness to interact effortless. As a result of the increased opportunity for interaction between countries and around the world, teachers must know how to foster cultural competence, emotional awareness, and leadership skills to facilitate not just interactions, but meaningful interactions and relationships. Interestingly, this specific type of knowledge is largely absent in “standards-based” movements in education and is not always seen as worthy of sustained instructional time and effort. My assessment should focus on the skills students need to be successful in work, school and life, in other words, it should focus on what students have memorized but on their analytical thinking on a given issue.