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
Kramay Patel on 09 Sep 11Contains a comparison of what the 21st century will look like in terms of education.
gives good insight into the skills needed in the 21st century.