1. WHAT ARE 21 ST CENTURY SKILLS? Preparing our students for the future classroom and workspace.

2. The SARS Project Video Clip - The Sars Project

3. What skills might these students possess to create a project like this? A quote by Eric Hoffer, “In times of change learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

4. Examples of Skills:  Learning and Innovation Skills  Creativity, ability to think critically, problem solving, communicateeffectively, cooperate productively with others, apply imagination tocreate, invent, and discover  Digital Literacy Skills  Information literacy, media literacy, information and communication, andtechnology literacy  Career & Life Skills  Flexibility, adaptability, initiative and self direction, social and cross-cultural skills, productivity, and accountability, leadership, responsibility,analyze, interpret, and evaluate

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6. 21 st Century Skills Summary

7. KnowledgeComprehensionApplicationAnalysisSynthesisEvaluationRememberUnderstandApplyAnalyzeEvaluateCreate OldNewvs.

9. Learning and Innovation Skills  Critical Thinking and Problem Solving  Communication and Collaboration  Creativity and Innovation Information, Media and Technology Skills  Information Literacy  Media Literacy  Information and communication Technologies Skills

10. Life and Career Skills  Flexibility and Adaptability Skills  Initiative and Self-direction Skills  Social and Cross-Cultural Interaction  Productivity and Accountability  Leadership and Responsibility Skills

11. Discussion Questions

12. Who should be responsible for these skills? Who are the stakeholders? Learning and Innovation Skills Information, Media and Technology Skills Life and Career Skills Critical Thinking, Problem Solving Communication, Collaboration Creativity, Innovation __________________________ Teachers Information Literacy Media Literacy Information/Communication Tech. __________________________ Teachers Tech Coordinators Policy Makers Flexibility, Adaptability Initiative, Self-Direction Social/Cross-Cultural Interaction Productivity, Accountability Leadership, Responsibility __________________________ Students Teachers Parents

13. Why are these skills important for the 21 st century? Important: These skills are necessary components that students need to become competent to work and live successfully in the 21st century. Components create real-world learning experiences in the classroom and can build bridges across the world when students graduate from school.  Learning & Innovation Skills  Unlock a lifetime of learning and creative work  Assist to for learners to reach their highest potential  Ability to look at the whole picture vs. a small picture and moving on to learning the next skill  “Taxonomy for Learning = Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create. This improves learning outcomes of the 21 st century student.  Classrooms must be hands-on, creative, and experimental environment.

14. Important (continued)  Information, Media, & Technology Skills  Technologically literate = understanding how to utilize technology appropriately, ability to teach others and comprehend consequences. (Utilize technology to their advantage)  Familiarity with technology = applying skills into students’ daily lives  Appropriately access, evaluate, use, manage, and add to the information and media at their fingertips. These are necessary not only for developing learning, but also necessary for the workforce  Fluency will need to increase due to technology environment. This is key. (New Technology Resources)

15. Important (continued)  Life & Career Skills  Individual and cooperative work. Diversity within cooperative group work. By working collaboratively, students need to learn the skills of setting and meeting goals, prioritizing work, and time management. These skills carry over into adulthood and workforce.  Adapt to the fast paced changing environment to be successful in school, work, and life  Compare to Chapter 3 = Students need to use their imaginations to expand their own learning without direct guidance of a teacher (initiative and self-direction). Closes the gaps for individuals competing for the same jobs in the workforce.  Education = Multi-cultural approach (assists to become connected to others around the world. i.e. The SARS project shows how students constantly changed the website because they kept sending each other different ideas. They took all the ideas and kept adding to the website creating better insights and making the site better than when they first started. These skills help students incorporate new team members on current ideas and new ones as well. This also shows students can be flexible and adaptable.  Leadership instilled in students. We want our students to utilize leadership skills in the workforce so that we, the United States, can become “leading leaders” in the world. For example, we will be able to keep up with other countries, such as China, with their technology and innovative ideas.  Learning is a lifelong process

16. Problems?  Classrooms are creating and environment that is technologically advanced to enhance student learning. How does this affect other students in lower socioeconomic statuses?  Teachers expect students to continue to learn outside the classroom and/or take school projects/assignments home. How do lower SES students succeed?

17. What do you do in your classroom to develop your students’ 21 st century skills?

18. What problems do you encounter and how can you overcome them?  Classrooms are creating and environment that is technologically advanced to enhance student learning. How does this affect other students in lower socioeconomic statuses?  Teachers expect students to continue to learn outside the classroom and/or take school projects/assignments home. How do lower SES students succeed?