21stcentury skills Presented By Amber Muzammil Jannat Asif

Using 21st Century Tools to Teach Using 21st Century Tools to Teach 21st Century Skills21st Century Skills

What is Education

High School Leadership Summit 10/8/2003

what are what are 2121stst century skills? century skills?

High School

Leadership Summit

10/8/2003

why are why are 2121stst century skills century skills important?important?

Aim to Support 21st Century

Learners

21ST CENTURY’S LEARNING AND INNOVATION SKILLS

VITAMIN C DOSE

Core purpose Critical thinking: Objective examination of assumptions ,

underlying current beliefs to assess their correctness and legitimacy, and thus to validate or invalidate the beliefs. Making reasoned judgments

Communication:The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.Mutual understanding by sharing ideas.

Collaboration: Cooperative arrangement, Effective method of transferring 'know how‘ among individuals, Team work, will promote adjusting in difficult stations.

Creative thinking: Creative thinking can be stimulated both by an unstructured process such as brainstorming, and by a structured process such as lateral thinking. Finding resolutions according to situation.

INFORMATION MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

Know the technology  information literacy: Ability to define problems

in terms of their information needs, and to apply a systematic approach to search, locate, apply.

Media :Communication channels through which news, entertainment, education, data, or promotional messages are disseminated(to make it reach a wide audience).

ICT:  Visual part of computer application or operating system through which a user interacts with a computer or a software.  

21ST CENTURY LIFE AND CAREER SKILLS

Success Road Map Learning: Measurable and relatively

permanent change in behavior through experience, instruction, or study.

Flexibility and adaptability:  flexibility depends on several factors: work hours, cross-training, wages, location, and the adaptability of its labor force. Ability of an entity or organism to alter itself.

Assessment& Accountability: To develop a sense of accountable for the performance of themselves.

Leadership& culture: Leadership development is a systematic approach to expanding the ... the organization's unique culture and how the leader is expected to function within the limitations.

not tools BUT skills

Myth :Myth : :

21st Century Skillsare all about

TECHNOLOGY

Truth:Truth:

21st Century Skills Are all about Students meeting the

need of their world!

21st Century Learning: 21st Century Learning: What does it involve?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 content6. Use 21st Century assessment that measures

21st Century skills(classroom assessments and standardized tests)

Possibilities for Possibilities for incorporating 21st incorporating 21st Century Skills . . .Century Skills . . .

Project based learningSchool-wide projects where students explore

passionsInternshipsStudent driven action research projectsAuthentic service learning Creative alignment of educatorsOther . . . .

Is Is notnot Just CHANGE the SLATE Just CHANGE the SLATE

BUTBUTChange our Change our THINKING!THINKING!