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2.  The 21st century dawned as the beginning of the Digital
Age – a time of unprecedented growth in technology
and its subsequent information explosion. Never before
have the tools for information access and management
made such an impact on the way we live, work, shop,
and play.

3. New technologies and tools multiply daily and the new technologies
of the day are outdated almost as the reach the market. Numerous
studies and reports have emerged over the past decade that seek to
identify the life, career, and learning skills that define the skills
needed for success in the 21st century world. While there are some
differences in how the skills are categorized or interpreted, there
are also many commonalities.

4. Common Skills:
Creativity and Innovation
Using knowledge and understanding to create new ways of thinking in order
to find solutions to new problems and to create new products and services.
 Think creatively
 work creatively with others
 Implement innovations

5. Critical thinking and Problem Solving
applying higher order thinking to new problems and issues, using
appropriate reasoning as they effectively analyze the problem
and make decisions about the most effective ways to solve the
problem.
 Reason Effectively
 Use Systems Thinking
 Make judgments and Decisions
 Solve Problems

6. Communication
communicating effectively in a wide variety of forms and contexts
for a wide range of purposes and using multiple media
technologies.
• Communicate Clearly

7. Collaboration
Working with others respectfully and effectively to
create, use and share knowledge, solutions and
innovations.
• Collaborate with others

8. Information Management
Accessing, analyzing, synthesizing, creating and
sharing information from multiple sources.

9. Effective Use of Technology
Creating the capacity to identify and use technology
efficiently, effectively and ethically as a tool to
access, organize, evaluate and share
information.

10. Career and Life Skills
Developing skills for becoming self-directed,
independent learners and workers who can adapt to
change, manage projects, take responsibility for their
work, lead others and produce results.

11. Cultural Awareness
Developing cultural competence in working with others
by recognizing and respecting cultural differences and
work with others from a wide range of cultural and
social backgrounds.

12. Information , Media and Technology Skills
Information Literacy
Access and Evaluate information
Use and manage Information
Media Literacy
Analyze Media
Create Media Products
ICT (Information, communications and Technology) Literacy
Apply technology effectively

13. Integrating 21st Century Skills with Content
 Connecting the content knowledge to real-world applications and
problem situations that enable students to see how what they are learning
connects with their lives and the world around them. The work that is
asked of students must be authentic work that is relevant and that mirrors
real life.
 Emphasizing deep understanding of the learning by focusing on projects
and problems that require students to use the content knowledge in new
ways and to extend their understanding through collaboration with
others.

14. The 21st Century Teacher
Characteristics:
The Adaptor
must be also be able to adapt software and hardware designed for a business
model into tools utilizable by a variety of age groups and abilities.
The Visionary
can look at others ideas and envisage how they would use these in their
class.
The Collaborator
sharing, contributing, adapting and inventing.
The Risk taker
use the strength of the digital natives to understand and navigate new
products, have the students teach each other.

15. The Learner
must learn to learn and adapt.
The Communicator
know how to use media in communication.
The Model
must model the behaviors that are expected
from their students.
The Leader
leadership like clear goals and objectives is
crucial to the success or failure of any project.

16. Facilitating 21st century Learning
Resources
the physical and electronic tools and materials available
to the teacher in the classroom. A well resourced room or
school is considerably higher up the ladder than a low decile
school which has fund raise for a new computer.
interactive whiteboards
classroom desktop computers
pods of laptops or one to one programs
video and audio conferencing
learning spaces for the 21st century

17. Skills
technical skills refers to the ability to operate the
resources provided to you. Teacher adapt, adopt and
modify. Pedagogical skills the more important of the
two , can and will make up for deficits in technical
ability.
Curriculum
integrating curricula that support ICT integration
are dynamic. The use of ICT’s is mandatory and
global, inclusive and specific.

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