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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

started by Ms Cuttle on 12 Sep 11 29 follow-ups, last by Vicky La on 12 Sep 11
Julia Truong

Jobs News - Top 10 Soft Skills in Demand - 2 views

www.livecareer.com/...-Skills-in-Demand_$$02191.aspx

21st century skills

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  • 1) Communication skills
  • 2) Computer and technical literacy
  • 3) Interpersonal skills
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  • 4) Adaptability
  • 5) Research skills
  • 6) Project management skills
  • 7) Problem-solving skills
  • 8) Process improvement expertise
  • 9) Strong work ethic
  • 10) Emotional Intelligence
  • Communication skills involve active listening, presentation as well as excellent writing capabilities.
  • Almost all jobs nowadays require basic competency in computer software
  • The ability to work in teams, relate to people and manage conflict is a valuable asset in the workplace.
  • Don't underestimate the ability to adapt to changes and manage multiple tasks.
  • hiring managers seek employees that are skilled at assessing situations, are able to seek multiple perspectives and gather more in depth information.
  • The ability to use creativity, reasoning, past experience, information and available resources to resolve issues is attractive because it saves everyone at the organization valuable time.
  • Optimizing business procedures can save a company time and money.
  • Employers are looking for employees that take initiative, are reliable and can do the job right the first time.
  • Although you will most likely never see this in a job description, EI is a highly sought after skill that relates to your social skills, social awareness and self-management abilities.
  • Julia Truong on 09 Sep 11
     
    From adaptation skills, project management and even interpersonal skills, it's the skills that are in high demand in the work force.
Youn Hee Cho

Metiri - Twenty-First Century Skills - 3 views

www.metiri.com/...tyfirst%20century%20skills.pdf

21st Century skills

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  • Youn Hee Cho on 09 Sep 11
     
    ! 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
Amy Chen

Top Skills and Values Employers Seek from Job-Seekers - 2 views

www.quintcareers.com/job_skills_values.html

21 century skills employment skills

shared by Amy Chen on 09 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Employability skills and personal values are the critical tools and traits you need to succeed in the workplace -- and they are all elements that you can learn, cultivate, develop, and maintain over your lifetime. Once you have identified the sought-after skills and values and assessed the degree to which you possess, them remember to document them and market them (in your resume, cover letter, and interview answers) for job-search success.
  • Analytical/Research Skills. Deals with your ability to assess a situation, seek multiple perspectives, gather more information if necessary, and identify key issues that need to be addressed.
  • Computer/Technical Literacy. Almost all jobs now require some basic understanding of computer hardware and software, especially word
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  • Flexibility/Adaptability/Managing Multiple Priorities. Deals with your ability to manage multiple assignments and tasks, set priorities, and adapt to changing conditions and work assignments
  • Leadership/Management Skills. While there is some debate about whether leadership is something people are born with, these skills deal with your ability to take charge and manage your co-workers.
  • Adaptability/Flexibility. Deals with openness to new ideas and concepts, to working independently or as part of a team, and to carrying out multiple tasks or projects
  • Positive Attitude/Motivation/Energy/Passion. The job-seekers who get hired and the employees who get promoted are the ones with drive and passion -- and who demonstrate this enthusiasm through their words and actions.
  • Professionalism. Deals with acting in a responsible and fair manner in all your personal and work activities, which is seen as a sign of maturity and self-confidence; avoid being petty.
    • Amy Chen
      Amy Chen on 10 Sep 11
       
      This skill is very important. Employers seek for this skill.
Vicky La

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

www.business-strategy-innovation.com/...lding-21st-century-skills.html

21st Century Skills Innovation skills Learning skills

shared by Vicky La on 09 Sep 11 - Cached
  • 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.
Eugene Shtygashev

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

www.tonybates.ca/...century-skills-and-competences

21st century skills

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  • Eugene Shtygashev on 09 Sep 11
     
    A website describing valuable skills in the 21 century
Alan Nguyen

Why Are '21st-Century' Skills Important? - News, Sports, Jobs - The Intelligencer / Whe... - 2 views

www.theintelligencer.net/...entury--Skills-Important-.html

21st century skills

shared by Alan Nguyen on 09 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • The essence of the skills includes collaboration, communication, creativity and innovation and critical thinking coined the 4Cs by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (a group of corporations who partnered with the U.S. Department of Education in 2002). As you can see, 21st-century skills mean much more than using and applying technology, as some are want to imagine.
  • Alan Nguyen on 09 Sep 11
     
    An article about the meaning for why 21st century skills are crucial and relevant.
Sarah Ngov

What Are 21st-Century Skills? - 0 views

atc21s.org/...what-are-21st-century-skills

21st century skills 21st Century Skills

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  • 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
    • Sarah Ngov
      Sarah Ngov on 09 Sep 11
       
      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.
Christie Park

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

www.techlearning.com/...45157

skills prepare students

shared by Christie Park on 09 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • Christie Park on 09 Sep 11
     
    Summarizes six key elements schools should focus on when preparing students for the 21st century.
Youn Hee Cho

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

eabbey.blogspot.com/...kills-before-20th-century.html

21st Century skills

shared by Youn Hee Cho on 12 Sep 11 - Cached
  • 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.
Christine Diep

Partnership for 21st Century Skills Debuts '21st Century Skills and English Map' -- THE... - 0 views

thejournal.com/...ry-skills-and-english-map.aspx

21st century skills National Council of English

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    • Christine Diep
      Christine Diep on 09 Sep 11
       
      Essential skills indicated by the NCTE
  • Creativity and innovation; Critical thinking and problem solving; Communication; Collaboration; Information literacy; Media literacy; Information and Communication Technologies literacy (ICT literacy); Flexibility and adaptability; Initiative and self direction; Social and cross-cultural skills; Productivity and accountability; and Leadership and responsibility.
Bobo Qiu

Iowa Core Curriculum - 21st Century Skills - 0 views

www.corecurriculum.iowa.gov/ContentArea.aspx

21st Century Skills

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  • Tony Wagner, Harvard Graduate School of Education, labels these "survival skills" as (1) critical thinking and problem solving; (2) collaboration and leadership; (3) agility and adaptability; (4) initiative and entrepreneurialism; (5) effective oral and written communication; (6) accessing and analyzing information; and (7) curiosity and imagination. Wagner proposes that schools use academic content to teach these skills at every grade level, and be accountable for a new standard of rigor.
  • Bobo Qiu on 09 Sep 11
     
    Talks about "survival skills" we need to have for the 21st Century
Amir Prodensky

Ten Career Skills to Keep You Employable in the 21st Century - 2 views

changingminds.org/...ten_career_skills.htm

career skills 21st century skills

shared by Amir Prodensky on 09 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • 10 skills to acquire and refine that will increase your professional confidence level and make you more employable in the 21st Century:
  • Constantly adapt to technology.
  • Embrace diversity.
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  • Be a life-long learner.
  • Practice impeccable integrity.
  • Be a self-starter.
  • Demonstrate personal discipline.
  • Prioritize and evaluate daily.
  • Be adaptable.
  • Think creatively and innovatively.
  • Have the Can-Do attitude.
  • As you improve in each area mentioned above, however, you will increase in confidence and competence and create an environment where you add value to the organization and a need for your personal services.
  • Amir Prodensky on 09 Sep 11
     
    Great resource. Lists specific skills with descriptions.
Suhaib Saqib

What is 21st Century Education - 1 views

www.21stcenturyschools.com/_is_21st_Century_Education.htm

21stcentury education Technology 21stcenturylearning 21st century

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    • Kramay Patel
      Kramay Patel on 09 Sep 11
       
      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
  • Suhaib Saqib on 12 Sep 11
     
    gives good insight into the skills needed in the 21st century.
Sharice Molko

6 Reasons Why Students Need 21st-Century Skills | edtechdigest.com - 2 views

edtechdigest.wordpress.com/...dents-need-21st-century-skills

21st century skills technology students

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  • 6 Reasons Why Students Need 21st-Century Skills
  • Thereʼs plenty of talk about what to include on a 21st-century skills list, but why students need such skills is a different question.
Alex Manta

The Latest Doomed Pedagogical Fad: 21st-Century Skills - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2009010401532.html

education 21st_century_skills

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  • Guleed Omar on 09 Sep 11
     
    Author doesn't think 21st century skills are necessary
  • Alex Manta on 09 Sep 11
     
    How are millions of students still struggling to acquire 19th-century skills Pros and Cons of "21st Century Skills" 
Ms Cuttle

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

www.p21.org/index.php

21st century skills

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    • Ms Cuttle
      Ms Cuttle on 09 Sep 11
       
      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). 
eric truong

Canada's 10 hottest jobs: skilled trades, pharmacist, finance, dental hygienist and mor... - 4 views

www.canadianliving.com/..._dental_hygienist_and_more.php

21st century skills top 10 jobs

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  • These trades and professions are booming, so if you have the training and aptitude for one of these gigs, you can expect good money, a relative amount of job security and the knowledge that companies are vying to hire you (you hot commodity, you!).
  • 1. Financial manager
  • 2. Skilled tradesperson
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  • 3. College or vocational school teacher
  • eric truong on 09 Sep 11
     
    Top 10 jobs in Canada, as of 6 months ago. Let's us see what skills can be relevant to our futures. The other seven jobs are on the following pages.
Sabina Rafikova

Skills and Abilities - 1 views

www.soicc.state.nc.us/...skillsjob.htm

21st century skills

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  • Creative thinking - Uses imagination freely. Combines ideas or information in new ways. Makes connections between seemingly unrelated ideas, and reshapes goals in ways that reveal new possibilities.
  • Self-management - Assesses own knowledge, skills, and abilities accurately; sets well-defined and realistic personal goals. Monitors progress toward goal attainment and motivates self through goal achievement. Exhibits self-control and responds to feedback unemotionally and nondefensively. A “self-starter.”
  • Manages material and facility resources - Acquires, stores, and distributes materials, supplies, parts, equipment, space, or final products in order to make the best use of them.
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  • Understands systems - Knows how social, organizational, and technological systems work and operates effectively within them. Makes suggestions to modify systems to improve products or services, and develops new or alternative systems maintenance and quality control. Uses technology - Judges which set of procedures, tools, or machines will produce the desired results. Understands the overall intent and the proper procedures for setting up and operating machines, including computers and their programming systems. Prevents, identifies, or solves problems in machines, computers, and other technology.
  • Interprets and communicates information - Selects and analyzes information and communicates the results to others using oral, written, graphic, pictorial or multimedia methods.
  • Sabina Rafikova on 09 Sep 11
     
    The skills needed for employment in the 21st century, a lot of it includes use of technology
Tiger Liu

Partnership for 21st Century Skills - 0 views

h226.lskysd.ca/154

21st century skills list of skills

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  • Tiger Liu on 09 Sep 11
     
    has a list of skills for easy point making
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