However, choosing of the teaching methods which support students to learn “21st
Century Skills” /competencies is not straightforward because students have diverse
backgrounds and a variety of achievement levels which all affect their ability to learn.
Therefore, it is important to utilise a variety of teaching methods which engages students in
tackling the topic to be learnt in such a way that they create meaningful and understandable
knowledge structures on the basis of a goal for learning. This type of meaningful learning is
grounded on activity and intention, reflection and self-evaluation, collaboration and
interaction, construction, contextualization, and cumulative learning (Bransford, Brown &
Cocking, 2000). In Finnish teacher education it is emphasised that previous characteristics
of learning activity may also be realised through the use of ICT. For example, ICT allows
students to engage with authentic, real-world situations, especially, the Internet provides
access to knowledge worldwide through tools such as Google Earth