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21st Century Skills: New Directions and Paradigms
in Today’s Teaching Presented by John Medina
Rapid Change in the 21st Century
If our great, great, grandparents were suddenly transported to our present time, what elements of our society might be incomprehensible?
If you were to wake up from a 10-year coma, what might you find confusing?
farming
phone
check out
photography
printing
banking
http://www.fdic.gov/about/learn/learning/how/imteller.html
paying for goods
music
personal communication
information search
What about education?
We’re really good at preparing students for . . .
Did you know
A change – a systemic shift – is needed
Conclusions
Educational systems need to adapt to meet the needs of the digital natives in the 21st century
The skills and knowledge required for work and civic life in the 21st century are shifting
Society is changing
HARD SKILLS VS. SOFT
SKILLS
What Counts as Knowledge?
HARD SKILLS VS. SOFT
SKILLS
What Counts as Knowledge?
HARD SKILLS VS. SOFT
SKILLS
What Counts as Knowledge?
HARD SKILLS VS. SOFT
SKILLS
What Counts as Knowledge?
What Counts as Knowledge?
HARD SKILLS VS. SOFT
SKILLS
What Counts as Knowledge?
HARD SKILLS VS. SOFT
SKILLS
What Counts as Knowledge?
HARD SKILLS VS. SOFT
SKILLS
What Counts as Knowledge?
HARD SKILLS • refers to professional knowledge, tools, or techniques that allows one to work.
SOFT SKILLS • “people skills,” refer to those qualities that make an excellent worker.
Work and Civic Skills • Released October 2, 2006,
by The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the Society for Human Resource Management groups.
What skills are most important for job success when hiring a High School graduate?
80% 75% 70%
63% 58%
21st Century Skills
Work Ethic Collaboration Good Communication
Social Responsibility Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Are They Really To Work? 2006
Of the High School students that you recently hired, what were their deficiencies?
81% 73% 70% 70% 58%
21st Century Skills
Written Communication Leadership Work Ethic Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Self-Direction Are They Really To Work? 2006
95.4% 94.4% 93.8% 93.1% 93.1%
21st Century Skills What applied skills and basic knowledge are most important for those you will hire with a four-year college diploma?
Oral Communication Collaboration Professional/Work Ethic Written Communication Critical Thinking/Problem Solving Are They Really To Work? 2006
78% 77% 76% 74% 74% 72%
21st Century Skills What skills and content areas will be growing in importance in the next five years?
Critical Thinking Information Technology Health & Wellness Collaboration Innovation Personal Financial Responsibility Are They Really To Work? 2006
What are 21st Century Skills? certain core competencies such as collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving that schools need to teach to help students thrive in today's world.
P21 Members
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a public-private partnership organized to
create an overall vision of how 21st century skills can be incorporated into K-12
education.
20th Century Education Model
21st Century Skills Framework
Core Subjects & 21st Century Themes
Standards & Assessment
Information, Media, and Tech Skills
Curriculum & Instruction
Professional Development
Learning Environments
Learning and Innovation Skills
Life & Career Skills
The leading advocacy organization infusing 21st century skills into education.
www.21stcenturyskills.org
21st Century Skills and K to 12
…produce holistically developed Filipinos who have 21st century skills and are prepared for higher education, middle level skills development, employment, and entrepreneurship
~ DepEd Primer, 2011
21st Century Learning: What does it involve?
1. Emphasize core subjects 2. Emphasize learning skills 3. Use 21st Century tools to develop learning skills
(computers, internet, other technology) 4. Teach and learn in a 21st Century context
(relevance to students’ life, authentic learning experiences, bring world into classroom, go out into the world)
5. Teach and learn 21st Century content 6. Use 21st Century assessment that measures 21st
Century skills (classroom assessments and standardized tests)
Framework for 21st Century Learning
Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes
Life and Career Skills
Learning and Innovation Skills
Information, Media and Technology Skills
Core Subjects English Reading/Lang
Arts World Languages Arts Mathematics Economics Science Geography History Government Civics
21st Century Themes (21st Century Content)
• Global Awareness • Financial, Economic,
Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy
• Civic Literacy • Health Literacy
Learning and Innovation Skills
Creativity and Innovation Skills (ISTE 1)
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills (ISTE 4)
Communication and Collaboration Skills (ISTE 2)
Information, Media & Technology Skills
• Information Literacy • Media Literacy • ICT Literacy (Information,
Communications, and Technology)
Life and Career Skills Flexibility and Adaptability Initiative and Self Direction Social and Cross-Cultural Skills Productivity and Accountability Leadership and Responsibility
Assessing and Teaching 21st Century Skills
21st century skills are generally specified as being taught through, within and across the subjects without the detail of how this is to Assessing & Teaching 21st Century Skills be achieved or what the responsibilities of each subject might be in achieving them.
~ ATCS, 2012
Assessing and Teaching 21st Century Skills
• Creativity and Innovation • Critical Thinking, Problem-solving,
Decision-making • Learning to learn; metacognition
Ways of Thinking
• Communication • Collaboration (teamwork)
Ways of Working
Assessing and Teaching 21st Century Skills
• Information Literacy • ICT Literacy
Tools for Working
• Citizenship – local and global • Life and Career • Personal and social responsibility,
including cultural awareness and competence
Skills for Living in the World
Assessing and Teaching 21st Century Skills
Possibilities for incorporating 21st Century Skills . . .
Project based learning School-wide projects where students
explore passions Internships Student driven action research projects Authentic service learning Other . . . .
Digital Story Telling Push your student’s creativity, writing,
sequencing, and articulating a message with digital story telling. (Windows MovieMaker and iMovie work great too.)
•http://www.primaryaccess.org/ds.htm • http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/storymap/
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/movie_social_studies_02.html
YouTube. Okay, so it’s blocked
in many schools, but it is a location for students to publish their videos.
TeacherTube. Many schools are allowing this site. Teacher and student created videos are available.
Ustream. Want to air a live broadcast to the world? (Your pen pals in Argentina want to see the cool experiment you are doing in Eau Claire.) It’s possible with Ustream. All you need is a video camera.
Online Video Hosts
http://www.youtube.com/ http://www.teachertube.com/ http://www.ustream.tv/
Blogs
Use as a newsletter to communicate with families or as a forum for parent/student/teacher discussion on topics covered in class
Students can use blogs to talk with the world about books they have read, comment on issues, request feedback, use to differentiate by having them respond to leveled questions etc.
http://edublogs.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI
Blogs in Plain English
Web Quests Inquiry, problem solving,
critical thinking are all promoted in high quality web quests.
What is a Web quest? A
web quest is an assignment which asks students to use the World Wide Web to learn about and/or synthesize their knowledge a specific topic.
http://webquest.org/index.php http://bestwebquests.com/default.asp
http://ses.hermiston.k12.or.us/reeve_powetrywebquest
http://its.guilford.k12.nc.us/webquests/plantquest/index.htm
http://its.guilford.k12.nc.us/webquests/forest/forest.htm
http://newman.needham.k12.ma.us/learningmaps/webquests/new_math_poetry/main.htm
References:
“How to Build a Student for the 21st Century”, TIME Magazine, December 18, 2006
“Are They Really To Work?” 2006
P21_Framework_Definitions. (2009).
Partnership for 21st Century Skills