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