ABSTRACT:
What does it mean to be an autonomous learner or a successful individual in today’s digital world?The 21st century requires different skills, abilities, and learning dispositions. To prepare our students for the rapidly changing global environment, essential skills in innovation, digital literacy, and career and life skills—known as 21st century skills—have become key qualities in education over the last couple of decades. This workshop aims to examine some of the key aspects of these skills and exemplify them with age-appropriate tasks for deeper learning, problem solving, analytic reasoning, and teamwork through games and gamified activities in the context of English Language Teaching (ELT), addressing the basic needs of Turkish language learners at the K-12 level. 
BIODATA:
Senem Baycan is currently working for Macmillan Education Turkey as a Key Account Sales Manager. She is a teacher trainer with an academic background in English Language Teaching (ELT) for over 20 years. After graduating from Marmara University, she completed her CELTA and then her Master of Arts (MA) degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) at Bahçeşehir University. Since then, she has worked as a lecturer, coordinator, and vice director for several universities and global publishing companies. She continues her academic studies to complete her Ph.D. in Educational Technologies at Bahçeşehir University.