21st Century Skills

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21st century skills are bridge from 19th Century Skills - pragmatic, community based solutions to real-life problems. Communication, Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation, Problem Solving, Responsible Citizenship, Information Literacy

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Page 1: 21st Century Skills

The top ten jobs that will be in demand in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004.

Secretary of Education, Richard Riley, 2004

Education is all a matter of building bridges. Ralph Ellison

Instead of preparing our children to support a 21st Century economy, perhaps we should be preparing our economy to support our children. William Farren

The above… “example reminds us of the importance of what I’ll call ‘factual credibility.’ ”

Walter E. Palmer (click the link)

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Making the paradigm shift to 21st Century classroom

will require us to do the same things we are asking

our children to do…the things we learned in college.

Copyright 2012 Skills21.org

The things our grandparents learned as children.

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Collaboration

Problem Solving

Innovation

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Communication

Literacy

Citizenship

Ford & Edison radio broadcast.

Chautauqua, NY, 1929

Hard to see, but notice

the math literacy required

to draw a perfect six

point star on a

blackboard.

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Perhaps we don’t need a whole new 21st

Century skill set.

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What we need is the courage and fortitude to

transfer 19th Century skills to 21st Century

challenges.