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Vicky La

Are 21st Century Skills Important? - 59 views

Most of you seem to think 21st century skills are important. If we need to teach these skills how do we do it? Can we fit it in existing curriculum? Do we need new courses? different ways of teachi...

21st century skills

Christie Park

TechLearning: 21st Century Skills: Will Our Students Be Prepared? - 1 views

  • Central to the report's recommendations is a call for schools to focus on six key elements of 21st century learning
  • Core Subjects: The authors reaffirm the importance of the core subjects identified by No Child Left Behind but challenge schools and policymakers to expand their focus beyond "basic competency" to understanding the core academic content at much higher levels. Learning Skills: "To cope with the demands of the 21st century," the report states, "students need to know more than core subjects. They need to know how to use their knowledge and skills-by thinking critically, applying knowledge to new situations, analyzing information, comprehending new ideas, communicating, collaborating, solving problems, and making decisions." 21st Century Tools: Recognizing that "technology is, and will continue to be, a driving force in workplaces, communities, and personal lives in the 21st century," Learning for the 21st Century emphasizes the importance of incorporating information and communication technologies into education from the elementary grades up. 21st Century Context: Experiences that are relevant to students' lives, connected with the world beyond the classroom, and based on authentic projects are central to the sort of education the Partnership for 21st Century Skills defines as the appropriate context for learning in the information age. 21st Century Content: The report's authors beli
  • eve that certain content essential for preparing students to live and work in a 21st century world is missing from many state and local standards. (See list.) New Assessments that Measure 21st Century Skills: "As pervasive as assessment seems to be today," the report says, "it remains an emerging and challenging field that demands further study and innovation." Recommendations include moving beyond standardized testing as the sole measure of student learning; balancing traditional tests with classroom assessments to measure the full range of students' skills; and using technology-based assessments to deliver immediate feedback.
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    Summarizes six key elements schools should focus on when preparing students for the 21st century.
Suhaib Saqib

What is 21st Century Education - 1 views

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      Contains a comparison of what the 21st century will look like in terms of education.
  • 21st Century Skills   21st Century Schools, LLC recognizes the critical need for developing 21st century skills.  However, we believe that authentic education addresses the “whole child”, the “whole person”, and does not limit our professional development and curriculum design to workplace readiness. 21st century skills learned through our curriculum, which is interdisciplinary, integrated, project-based, and more, include and are learned within a project-based curriculum by utilizing the seven survival skills advocated by Tony Wagner in his book, The Global Achievement Gap: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Collaboration across Networks and Leading by Influence Agility and Adaptability Initiative and Entrepreneurialism Effective Oral and Written Communication Accessing and Analyzing Information Curiosity and Imagination
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    gives good insight into the skills needed in the 21st century.
Youn Hee Cho

Changing Iowa: 21st Century Skills before the 20th Century Skills? - 1 views

  • Why are we teaching the 21st century skills when students haven't learned the 20th century skills?
  • So the answer is, you don't teach 21st century skills before the 20th century. You teach them at the same time, infusing them together.
Sarah Ngov

What Are 21st-Century Skills? - 0 views

  • Ways of thinking. Creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, decision-making and learning Ways of working. Communication and collaboration Tools for working. Information and communications technology (ICT) and information literacy Skills for living in the world. Citizenship, life and career, and personal and social responsibility
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      Interesting way of categorizing 21st century skills.
  • categorized 21st-century skills internationally into four broad categories:
  • Learning to collaborate with others and connect through technology are essential skills in a knowledge-based economy.
Ms Cuttle

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Framework for 21st Century Learning - 2 views

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      Interesting diagram
  • student outcomes (as represented by the arches of the rainbow) and 21st century skills support systems (as represented by the pools at the bottom). 
Vicky La

Blogging Innovation: Building 21st Century Skills - Innovation blog articles, videos, a... - 0 views

  • According to the P21 Framework Definitions Document from May 2009, students should master the four following interconnected knowledge, skills and expertise in order to "succeed in work and life in the 21st century:"Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes: English, reading, foreign language, math, economics, science, geography, history and government AND global awareness, civic literacy, health literacy, and financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy.Learning and Innovation Skills: Creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, and communication and collaboration.Information, Media and Technology Skills: Information literacy, media literacy, and information, communications and technology literacy.Life and Career Skills: Flexibility and adaptability, initiative and self-direction, social and cross-cultural skills, productivity and accountability, and leadership and responsibility.
Kramay Patel

Deloitte21: Equipping young people to thrive in the 21st-century - Deloitte Perspectives - 1 views

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      Equipping young people to thrive in the 21st century
  • Schools must expose young people to the critical thinking skills that will allow them to be successful members of the 21st-century workforce.
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  • :  Advancing knowledge, policy, and thought leadership on skills-building for underserved populations in developing and developed countries
  • : Providing Deloitte member firm people with opportunities to lead and engage young people through volunteerism and pro bono work
  • : Investing in innovative ideas and programs to support and help to scale up
Kevin Mao

21st Century Skills - 0 views

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    Excellent overview of essential 21st century skills.
Eugene Shtygashev

e-Learning and 21st century skills and competences - 1 views

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    A website describing valuable skills in the 21 century
Christine Diep

New Brunswick releases 21st century learning plan « IT Business Blogs Canada ... - 0 views

  • three year plan is
  • the CRT2 formula, where C is Creativity, R is Relevance; the first T is Time and the second, Technology.
Jessica Luong

Digital Literacy : Skills for the 21st Century - 0 views

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    We have to get used to thinking of images, sounds and movement as raw material for construction. What a picture means, for instance, is no longer entirely defined by what is IN the picture, but rather by how it is used and in what context. Students have to learn to think about the purposes for which they want to use different media when they are authoring a multimedia text.
Kramay Patel

21st Century Skills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

    • Kramay Patel
       
      21st century Skills......all combined into one wiki
  • As educators shift from the traditional school methods of the lecturing and note taking, there is a need not to use technology as a means of supplemental education, but truly integrated.
Kramay Patel

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3009.pdf - 1 views

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    Students immersed in authentic learning activities cultivate the kinds of "portable skills" that newcomers to any discipline have the most difficulty acquiring on their own: * The judgment to distinguish reliable from unreliable information * The patience to follow longer arguments * The synthetic ability to recognize relevant patterns in unfamiliar contexts * The flexibility to work across disciplinary and cultural boundaries to generate innovative solutions Learning researchers have distilled the essence of the authentic learning experience down to 10 design elements, providing educators with a useful checklist that can be adapted to anysubject matter domain.1.  Real-world relevance: Authentic activities match the real-world tasks of professionals in practice as nearly as possible. Learning rises to the level of authenticity when it asks students to work actively with abstract concepts, facts, and formulae inside a realistic-and highly social-context mimicking "the ordinary practices of the [disciplinary] culture."2.  Ill-defined problem: Challenges cannot be solved easily by the application of an existing algorithm; instead, authentic activities are relatively undefined and open to multiple interpretations, requiring students to identify for themselves the tasks and subtasks needed to complete the major task. 3.  Sustained investigation: Problems cannot be solved in a matter of minutes or even hours. Instead, authentic activities comprise complex tasks to be investigated by students over a sustained period of time, requiring significant investment of time and intellectual resources. 4.  Multiple sources and perspectives: Learners are not given a list of resources. Authentic activities provide the opportunity for students to examine the task from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives, using a variety of resources, and requires students to distinguish relevant from irrelevant information in the process. 5.  Collabora
Youn Hee Cho

Metiri - Twenty-First Century Skills - 3 views

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    ! Basic, Scientific, and Technological Literacies As society changes, the skills that citizens need to negotiate the complexities of life also change. In the early 1900s, a person who had acquired simple reading, writing, and calculating skills was considered literate. It has only been in recent years that the public education system has expected all students to learn to read critically, write persuasively, think and reason logically, and solve complex problems in mathematics and science. ! Visual and Information Literacy The graphic user interface of the World Wide Web and the convergence of voice, video, and data into a common digital format have increased the use of visual imagery dramatically. Advances such as digital cameras, graphics packages, streaming video, and common imagery standards,allow for the use visual imagery to communicate ideas. Students need good visualization skills to be able to decipher, interpret, detect patterns, and communicate using imagery. Information Literacy includes accessing information efficiently and effectively, evaluating information critically and competently, and using information accurately and creatively. ! Cultural Literacy and Global Awareness The world is rapidly becoming wired and the resulting globalization of commerce and trade has increased the need for cultural literacy. In such a global economy, with the U.S. concerned about interactions, partnerships and competition from around the world, there is a greater necessity for knowing, understanding and appreciating other cultures, including cultural formations established as norms in a technological society, such as virtual realities. ! Adaptability/Managing Complexity and Self-Direction The interconnectedness of today's world brings with it unprecedented complexity. Globalization and the Web are inherently complex, accelerating the pace of change in today's world. Interaction in such an environment requires individuals to be a
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