1. 21 st century literacy

2. Brain Storming  Do you think if we brought a student back from the 19 th century will he or she be able to identify and adapt to our classrooms today? Why?

3. The four language skills

4. Age of Authority  Reading  Receiving  Responding

5. They are faced with technology everyday Our students face a fundamental challenge!

6. In the 21 st century, learning a foreign language is about making connections and associations from one skill to the next.

7. The age of Engagement  Connecting  Creating  Contributing

8. 21 st century literacy It is not based on what you know But rather on can you find it, analyze it, adapt it, and synthesize it. It is not based on what you know But rather on can you find it, analyze it, adapt it, and synthesize it.

9. 21 st century literacy Should be about : The ability to learn, unlearn and relearn. How to deal with massive amounts of information and what to do with it. Resilience and strategies to cope with constant change, including dealing with failure and taking risks.

10. 21 st century literacy Should be about : Permit more opportunities in curriculum for play and imagination because we are preparing students for jobs that haven’t even been invented yet.

11. 21 st century literacy Should include teacher preparation and professional development programs that integrate and model 21 st century skills in method and delivery and guide teachers in utilizing new technology.

12. 21 st century literacy Should bring teachers together to build communities so that they can get support they need outside of the classroom.

13. Should include teachers sharing best practices first with each other and then beyond their own schools through virtual learning communities. 21 st century literacy

15. 21 st century skills 21st century learning, or the “21st Century Skills” movement, as it is commonly known, refers to a growing global movement to redefine the goals of education, to transform how learning is practiced each day, and to expand the range of measures in student achievement, all in order to meet the new demands of the 21st Century.

16. 21 st century skills

17.  Understanding the 21 st century Skills Outcomes: Establishes as a baseline that educators, students and parents must be well versed in the 21st century skills that students need to acquire to be successful. Teachers should be able to make relevant and useful choices about when and how to teach them, and whether or not students are making progress toward their personal demonstration of accomplishment.

18. 21 st century skills Relevant and Applied Curriculum: Offers an innovative vision of what the learning environment should become by applying what we know about how people learn and adapting the best pedagogy to meet the needs of this generation of learners. Students should be engaged in relevant and contextual problem- and project-based learning designed to develop 21st century skills and provided using a multi- disciplinary approach.

19. 21 st century skills Informative Assessment: Identifies the types and systems of assessments schools need to develop to fully capture the varied dimensions of 21st century learning as well as the independent role students need to take on in monitoring and adjusting their own learning. Assessments used in the classroom should increase relevant feedback to students, teachers, parents, and decision-makers and should be designed to continuously improve student learning and inform the learning environment.

20. 21 st century skills A Cultural Innovation and Creativity: Acknowledges the fuel that drives today’s global economy and, in turn, its importance in both student learning and the school environment. As a result, schools should create a culture that supports and reinforces innovation for student learning and leverages the creativity and ingenuity of every adult and student to solve their unique problems. Additionally, the teaching and learning environment should generate the continuous development of these skills.

21. 21 st century skills Social and Emotional Connections with Students: Gives appropriate recognition to the personal, professional, and familial relationships that determine the health, growth, and cognitive development of a child within the family, school, and community. Specifically, each student should have a clear and purposeful connection to the social environment in school, with at least one adult who is purposefully in tune with the student’s learning preferences, learning interests, and social connections

22. 21 st century skills Ubiquitous Access to Technology : Underscores the essential role technology plays in 21st century life and work and, consequently, the role that it must play in learning. Students and educators need 24 by 7 access to information, resources, and technologies that engage and empower them to do background research, information and resource gathering, and data analysis, to publish with multiple media types to wide and varied audiences, to communicate with peers and experts, and to gain experience and expertise in collaborative work.

23. ACTFL World Languages 21st Century Skills Information literacy students as informed global citizen access, manage, and effectively use culturally authentic source in ethical and legal ways. Media Literacy Students as active global citizens evaluate authentic sources to understand how media reflect and influence language and culture. Technology Literacy Students as productive global citizens use appropriate technologies when interpreting messages, interacting with others, and producing written, oral, and visual messages Flexibility and Adaptability Students as flexible and adaptable language learners are open-minded, willing to take risks, and accept the ambiguity of language while balancing diverse global perspectives.

24. ACTFL World Languages 21st Century Skills Initiative and Self-Direction Students as life-long learners are motivated to set their own goals and reflect on their progress as they grow and improve their linguistic and cultural competence. Social and Cross-Cultural Skills Students as adept language learners understand diverse cultural perspectives and use appropriate socio-linguistic skills in order to function in diverse cultural and linguistic contexts. Productivity and Accountability Students as productive and accountable learners take responsibility for their own learning by actively working to increase their language proficiency and cultural knowledge. Leadership and Responsibility Students as responsible leaders leverage their linguistic and cross-cultural skills to inspire others to be fair, accepting, open, and understanding within and beyond the local community.

25. The 21 st century student 4Cs Critical thinking and problem solving CommunicationCollaboration Creativity and innovation

26. Critical thinking involves logical thinking and reasoning including skills such as comparison, classification, sequencing, cause/effect, patterning, webbing, analogies, deductive and inductive reasoning, forecasting, planning, hypothesizing, and critiquing. Critical thinking and problem solving

27. Communication The act of communicating involves verbal, nonverbal, and preverbal components. The verbal component refers to the content of our message‚ the choice and arrangement of our words. The nonverbal component refers to the message we send through our body language. The preverbal component refers to how we say what we say - the tone, pacing and volume of our voices.

28. Collaboration It is In situations where people come together in groups, it suggests a way of dealing with people which respects and highlights individual group members' abilities and contributions. There is a sharing of authority and acceptance of responsibility among group members for the groups actions. The underlying premise of collaborative learning is based upon consensus building through cooperation by group members.

29. Creativity and innovation Creative thinking involves creating something new or original. It involves the skills of flexibility, originality, fluency, elaboration, brainstorming, modification, imagery, associative thinking, attribute listing, metaphorical thinking, forced relationships. The aim of creative thinking is to stimulate curiosity and promote divergence.

31. References  21st Century Skills. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_Century_Skills  21st Century Readiness for Every Student. http://www.secctv.org/learning-skills.html  ACTFL 21st Century Skills. http://actfl21stcenturyskillsmap.wikispaces.com/ACTFL+21+st+century+s kills+list http://actfl21stcenturyskillsmap.wikispaces.com/ACTFL+21+st+century+s kills+list  Literacy For The 21st Century. http://www.slideshare.net/mrs.gardner/literacy-for-the-21st-century http://www.slideshare.net/mrs.gardner/literacy-for-the-21st-century  Beyond the Four Skills. http://www.slideshare.net/dianaj10/beyond-the- four-skillshttp://www.slideshare.net/dianaj10/beyond-the- four-skills videos  ACTFL World Languages 21st Century Skills Map. Uploaded by Toni Theisen on Jul 31, 2011.Toni Theisen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW5grjZf3zc  ACTFL World Languages 21st Century Skills: A Visual Introduction. Uploaded by profzjones on Jul 31, 2011.profzjones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXurDF0IbuQ