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This study aims to understand how student teachers define the characteristics of the students of 21st century. With the aim of the study, student teachers experienced an activity on Twitter, where they shared their ideas on 21st century students. The study was designed as a case study which is one of the qualitative research approachs. The participants were 1st nd rd and 4th level student teachers of Computer Education and Instructional Technologies Department at Faculty of Education at Anadolu University. Student teachers were informed about the activity and 92 student teachers joined the Twitter account, @aubote. 39 out of 92 student teachers actively participated in the activity in order to tweet on the subject “student of the future”. Tweets were analyzed using content analysis in the context of characteristics of students of 21st century. At the end of the activity, the views of students teachers were gathered regarding the activity. In accordance with the results, the characteristics of the student of 21st century were classified in 4 main themes and 10 sub-themes: Personal skills (cognitive, inherent and social), research and acquisition of knowledge skills (research, learning and acquisition of knowledge), creativity, innovation and career skills (career and innovation) and technology skills (using and popularize).

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