1. Information Literacy Training for IL Trainers Universitas Pelita Harapan 4 – 6 Februari 2010 21 st Century Literacy Skills Diljit Singh University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2. The 21 st Century From To

3. The 21 st Century From To

4. The 21 st Century Change has occurred everywhere  Business  Healthcare  Products  Services  … … … Change has come about because of  Growth of technology  Growth of information

5. Outline of Presentation The 21 st century as the information era Skills for success in the 21 st century Developing 21 st century skills

6. The 21 st Century as the Information Era

8. Every 5 years, the total amount of information doubles Every 2 years, the amount of scientific information doubles Every 1 hour, the amount of electronic information doubles (Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2007)

9. The 21 st Century as the Information Era The English Language now has 1,003,322 words (as at 22 January 2010) The English language passed 1,000,000 words on 10 June 2009 English gains a new word every 98 minutes (or about 14.7 new words a day) Some of the new words in the past 10 years  Twitter  Global warming  H1N1  Blog  Texting The English Language WordClock

10. Skills for Success Skills for success in pre-20 th century  Hunting, Fishing, Farming  Manufacturing  Home management Skills for success in 20 th century  Reading]  Writing] Literacy  Arithmetic ]

11. Skills for Success Skills for Success in in the 21 st Century  Basic, Technological, and Information Literacies  Skills to negotiate the complexities of life in today’s society  Globalization  ‘Wired’ world  Multicultural world  In the 21 st century, literacy means more than reading, writing, and arithmetic. Literacy means communication, logical thinking, creativity, critical reading, persuasive writing, problem solving, …

12. Skills for Success 21 st century skills  Critical-thinking and problem-solving skills  Communication and collaboration skills  Creativity and innovation skills  Information and communications technology literacy  Contextual learning skills  Information and media skills

13. Skills for Success 21 st century skills  Leadership  Personal responsibility  Ethics  People skills  Adaptability  Self-direction  Accountability  Social responsibility  Personal productivity

14. Developing 21 st Century Skills Who is responsible?  Policy makers  Administrators  Community leaders  School Principals  Teachers  Librarians  Parents  Caregivers and family members  … …

15. Developing 21 st Century Skills 20 th Century Schools Industrial Model  Time on task  Standardization of teaching, learning and assessment  Transmission of knowledge  Over-emphasis on control  Building learning from the part to the whole  Lack of attention to diversity, individual differences, socialization, and collaboration  Narrow view of effectiveness and efficiency 21 st century Schools Informational Model  Learn at varying speeds  Flexible, individualized learning  Learning how to learn  Flexibility  Building learning whole  part  whole  Diversity, individual differences, socialization, influence learning  Effectiveness and efficiency are contextual

16. Developing 21 st Century Skills Shift from Teacher- Centered to Child-Centered Constructivist Theory Shift from Individualism to Collaboration Social Learning Theory Shift from Skills only to Connecting children to our world Global Awareness, Civic Literacy, Environmental Literacy, Critical Literacy, Technology and Media Literacy, Financial and Economic Literacy, Information Literacy

17. Developing 21 st Century Ski lls CHILD WORLD SCHOOL EXPERIENCES

18. Developing 21 st Century Skills The quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers World’s Best Performing School Systems, 2008

19. Developing 21 st Century Skills But are we ready?

20. Thank you diljit@um.edu.my diljit_singh@hotmail.com