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."
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
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.
This infographic provides a nice overview of how teachers and students are using the more popular social media sites. Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, YouTube, Pinterest are included in this connected infographic about how social media is used to connect, notify, teach and curate in the 21st century.