What are the Demands of the New Millennium from Students, Learning Environments and the Curriculum? / Yeni Milenyumun rencilerden, renme Ortamlar ndan ve retim Programlar ndan Talepleri Nelerdir?

Although education plays an important role in shaping the world of tomorrow, it is also shaped by current and future economic, political, social, demographic, and technological forces. So, education systems can not isolate themselves from the developments and new trends around them. Information age, which is famous for the fast change of every aspect of our lives, forces education systems to be awake and keep up with these changes. In this study, it was aimed to analyse the demands of the information age from students, learning environments and the curriculum by using the survey method. Student dimension was explicated from three different perspectives; individual, local and global. The individual part is about learning the information that is necessary for real life issues and learning how to learn. The local perspective is about the need of people who can use, produce, continuously update and share knowledge for the countries to survive. The global point of view about the student dimension includes having an awareness of one’s membership on the earth not just the land piece they live on. To be able to meet these standards, learning environments and the curriculum should be based on the constructivist theory and education technologies should be integrated to them.