The document discusses 21st century skills and how to develop them in teaching and learning. It provides an example classroom activity on endangered species and has students copy information, sketch animals, and present their work. It then analyzes the activity in terms of critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity. The document advocates designing instruction that develops these 21st century skills through problem solving, communication, collaboration and creative tasks.

1. The 21st Century
Skills

3. Objectives:
Describe the 21st
century skills;
Identify ways to develop the 21st century
skills;
Apply the 21st
century skills to improve
teaching and learning.

4. Activity A
Read the following case. Discuss and decide as a group if
the teaching-learning process shows examples of 21st
century
learning.
TOPIC: PROTECTION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES
LEVEL: 6
Teacher shows students a table containing a list of animals
classified as endangered and information about their status.
Teacher asks students to select from the table three animals that
interest them.

5. Teacher asks students to copy from the
table information about the animals’ habitats,
the countries where they are found and 2-3
factors that threaten their survival. Students copy
information in their notebooks.
Teacher next tells students to select 1
out of the three they viewed. Teacher instructs
students to sketch a picture of their chosen
animal. Teacher shows students references for
their drawings.

6. Teacher tells students to do their sketch on
a piece of bond paper. Below the picture,
students are asked to write the information they
copied. Teacher tells students to frame their
picture.
When done, teacher has students post their
sketches on a wall in the classroom. In effect, the
wall becomes a gallery of animals classified as
endangered. Teacher invites students to share
their sketches and talk about their animals.

7. Three Types of Decisions
Yes, all the procedures done in the class are
good examples of 21st century skills – group
stands up and shouts “Hooray”!
Some of the procedures done in the class are
examples of 21st century skills and some are not
– group stands up and says “Hmmm”!
No, all the procedures done in the class are not
examples of 21st century skills – group stands
up and says “Huh”!

8. 21 21 (video)
How is instruction done in the different
classes?
What do they all emphasize?

9. Analysis
Which part of the video has a similar topic as the one
done in Activity A?
Were the procedures in the “Save the Whales” part similar
or different to Activity A? What are the similarities or
differences?

10. CASECLASS VIDEOCLASS
Students copied information
from a given table.
Students answered a
problem question and
gathered information to
answer the problem.
Students read the information
they copied.
Students reported their
findings to a mixed
group.
Students worked alone. Students worked in
teams.
Students sketched a picture
based on a reference.
Students made a
presentation using
different media.
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11. VIDEOCLASS
21st
CENTURY SKILLS
Students answered a problem
question and gathered
information to answer the
problem.
CRITICAL THINKING
AND PROBLEM-
SOLVING
Students reported their
findings to a mixed group.
COMMUNICATION
Students worked in teams. COLLABORATION
Students made a presentation
using different media.
CREATIVITY
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12. 21st
CENTURYSKILLS
INSTRUCTION
CRITICAL THINKING AND
PROBLEM-SOLVING
Teacher poses a problem and
asks students to solve it or
research for answers.
COMMUNICATION Teacher raises an issue or
topic and students express
their ideas with varied media.
COLLABORATION Teacher provides a task and
students work in teams.
CREATIVITY Teacher presents a challenge
and students design a solution
or an innovation.

14. Educating for the
unknown for what
might come, for
nimble ways of
thinking about it…

15. We wont know what
children would know 10
years from now, so
inquiry is the process
children learn how to
learn and apply those
skills in the learning of
everything for the
future…

16. 21st classroom is
highly augmented with
technology that allows
kids to be one on one.
It’s like to have a play
time rather than to
have people sitting
around with a teacher
in front.

17. The Digital
Native

18. http://www.billlouden.com/technology2

19. http://www.billlouden.com/natives1.jpg

22. THE K+ 12 GRADUATE

27. TOPIC: _____________________________
21st
CENTURYSKILLS INSTRUCTION/ACTIVITY
CRITICAL THINKING AND
PROBLEM-SOLVING
COMMUNICATION
COLLABORATION
CREATIVITY
Application
Instructions:
Choose a topic from Grade 10 Curriculum and design activities/projects
applying the 21st
Century Skills. Use the format below.

28. Application
Group yourselves into four.
Provide the groups with yellow and orange meta
cards.
In the pink meta cards, write the skills you have been
doing in the course of your work. In the blue meta
cards, write the 21st century skills that you will start
applying.
Arrange your outputs creatively on a half sheet of
Manila paper.
Post outputs.
Group leader shall present the group’s output.

29. Closing
“Success in the 21st century requires knowing how to
learn. Students today will likely have several careers in
their lifetime. They must develop strong critical
thinking and interpersonal communication skills in
order to be successful in an increasingly fluid,
interconnected, and complex world. Technology
allows for 24/7 access to information, constant social
interaction, and easily created and shared digital
content.

30. In this setting, educators can leverage technology to
create an engaging and personalized environment to
meet the emerging educational needs of this
generation. No longer does learning have to be one-
size-fits-all or confined to the classroom. The
opportunities afforded by technology should be used to
re-imagine 21st-century education, focusing on
preparing students to be learners for life.
- Karen Cator -