K-12 and 21st Century Skills

Nemah N. Hermosa University of the PhilippinesUniversity of the Philippines

Reading Association of the Philippines

2012 Annual National Convention

Century Park Hotel, November 8-10, 2012

What are 21st Century Skills?

Certain core competencies such as

collaboration, digital literacy, critical collaboration, digital literacy, critical

thinking, and problem-solving that

schools need to teach to help

students thrive in today's world.

A Framework for 21st Century Learning(The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2009)

3 RsGlobal Awareness

Financial, Economic &

Enterpreneurial Literacy

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A Framework for 21st Century Learning(The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2009)

Enterpreneurial Literacy

Civic Literacy

Health Literacy

Environmental Literacy

A Framework for 21st Century Learning(The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2009)

A Framework for 21st Century Learning(The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2009)

21st Century Skills & K-12

. . . produce holistically developed

Filipinos who have 21st century

skills and are prepared for higher

education, middle level skills education, middle level skills

development, employment, and

enterpreneurship.

DepEd Primer, 2011

Giron, 2012

Giron, 2012

Assessing & 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

without the detail of how this is to

be achieved or what the

responsibilities of each subject

might be in achieving them.

ATC21S, 2012

Assessing & Teaching 21st Century Skills

Creativity and innovation

Ways of

Thinking

Critical thinking, problem-

solving, decision-making

Learning to learn;

metacognitionmetacognition

Ways of

Working

Communication

Collaboration (teamwork)

ATC21S, 2012

Assessing & Teaching 21st Century Skills

Information literacy

Tools for

Working

ICT literacy

Citizenship -- local and

globalglobal

Life and career

Skills for

Living in

the World

Personal and social

responsibility, including

cultural awareness and

competence

ATC21S, 2012

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Table 1. Ways of thinking--creativity & innovation

Table 2. Ways of thinking--critical thinking, problem-

solving, decision-making

Table 3. Ways of thinking-- learning to learn,

metacognition

Table 4. Ways of working -- communication

Table 5. Ways of working -- collaboration, teamwork

Table 6. Tools for working -- information literacy

Table 7. Tools for working -- ICT literacy

Table 8. Living in the world -- citizenship, local and global

Table 9. Living in the world -- life and career

Table 10. Living in the world -- personal and social

responsibility

Assessing & Teaching

21st Century Skills(ATC21S video)(ATC21S video)

Assessing & Teaching

21st Century Skills

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Assessing & Teaching

21st Century Skills

Multi-user virtual

environment environment

(MUVE)

A multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) is

an interactive computer simulation of a

geographical area where features of the

environment are represented by

computer graphics. A player uses a computer graphics. A player uses a

mouse to lead an avatar into and

navigate within that world.

Blaisdell, 2006

MUVEs for education

Typical Video game:Typical Video game:

Enemies attack your avatar Educational MUVE:

Characters answer

questions or give

information

• Launched in 2003 by Linden Lab

• Residents explore the Grid and interact through avatars

• For people aged 16 and over

• Over 100 regions dedicated to education

• Most preferred virtual world (76% in 2010)

The River City Project

• interview citizens

• read relevant

documents

• visit the hospital

• review

• Focus on learning science concepts and inquiry

• RC users showed greater improvement in their

inquiry skills and better understanding of science

concepts than those who used a paper-based

curriculum (Ketelhut et al, 2006; Ketelhut, 2007).

• review

photographs

Atlantis Remixed & Quest Atlantis

Scenario: Atlantis is on the verge of disaster due

to poor leadership. In

order to save it the

Atlantan Council has

created a series of quests created a series of quests

for students.

• Environmental study

• Interviewing members of the community

• Studying other cultures

• Developing action plans

Transforming teaching and learning

Through the affordances of a

MUVE, researchers and designers

can create scenarios with real-

world verisimilitude that are safe, world verisimilitude that are safe,

cost-effective, and directly target

learning goals.

Dieterle & Clarke, 2010

Transforming assessment

Future trends in MUVE research

include establishing efficient and

effective mechanisms for

capturing and processing what capturing and processing what

students know and are able to do.

Dieterle & Clarke, 2010

21st Century Skills: More Takes

Richard

AllingtonProfessor of

Education,

University of

Tennessee; Early-

Reading Expert

Diana Ravitch

Education

Historian; author

of The Death

and Life of the

Great American

School System

Milton Chen Executive

Director,The George

Lucas Educational

Foundation; author

of Education Nation:

Six Leading Edges

of Innovation in Our

Schools