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Education Week: Panel of Scholars Define '21st-Century Skills' - 0 views

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  • skills considered necessary for the 21st-century workplace generally fall into three categories: cognitive, such as critical thinking and analytic reasoning to learn "deeply"; interpersonal, such as teamwork and complex communication; and intrapersonal, such as resiliency and conscientiousness.
  • focus more research and resources on nonacademic skills.
  • a student's ability to transfer and apply existing knowledge to a problem in a new context. "Transfer is the sort of Holy Grail in this whole thing," Mr. Pellegrino said. "We'd like to believe we can create Renaissance men who are experts in a wide array of disciplines and can blithely transfer skills from one to the other, but it just doesn't happen that way."
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  • Transfer is deeply connected to your knowledge base and your skill in an area,"
  • learning procedures and conceptual models within a specific subject area
  • "In mathematics, for example, we wouldn't necessarily just give kids these problem sets but engage them in identifying, framing, and solving real-world problems that would use those problem sets
  • Ben Hacking on 05 Aug 12
     
    21st Century Skills - cognitive: critical thinking & analytic reasoning - interpersonal: teamwork and complex communication - intrapersonal: resiliency and conscientiousness. Recommended that we focus more on nonacademic skills. Keen interest in a student's ability to transfer and apply existing knowledge to a problem in a new context.
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