This document discusses transforming curricula to develop 21st century global skills. It proposes focusing on skills like critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, intercultural competence, digital literacy, and global citizenship. These skills will help students learn to live together in a globalized world and address challenges like climate change, technological innovation, and social transformation. The document advocates empowering students as citizens through collaborative, project-based learning approaches that enhance self-reflection and participation. It also emphasizes transforming teachers' and students' roles to focus on lifelong learning and working together to solve human problems.

1. Towards a Curriculum
for 21st C. Global Skills
Development:
Why and What for?
Sultanate of Oman, 7 January 2020
Workshop by Dr. Neus Lorenzo
nlorenzo@xtec.cat @NewsNeus
Wahiba Sands
http://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.net/b7cbf2fa-458a-469f-a8cb-f0139c638f83/F35453-FR-04_uxga.jpg
The role of global skills
in national policy and
in curriculum creation

2. Content:
Globalized Context
Curriculum Revision
21st C. Skills
Enhancing e-Learning
Evaluation inquiring
Why
What
Participation
How
The Role of Global Skills? Learning too live
together.

3. Inquiring Models
21st C. Global Skills for
ELT
https://unsplash.com/photos/l66mkNNMn_k Micheile Henderson @micheile010
4-What am I using this picture for, today?
3-Why do you think so? How do you know?
2-What’s the implied message here?
1-What can you see in this picture?
Meta-reflection and Critical Thinking
Strategic Thinking
Interpretation and Implicit Meaning
Language and Explicit Knowledge
DIGITAL SKILLS
CRITICAL THINKING
INTERCULTURALITY
CREATIVITY
COMMUNICATION

4. Content:
Globalized Context
Curriculum Revision
21st C. Skills
Enhancing e-Learning
Evaluation inquiring
Why
What
Participation
How
The Role of Global Skills? Learning too live
together.

5. Our mind is a
surprising endless
resource:
the more we use it,
the more it grows.

6. The Role of Global Skills: Learning for
Action
Access data,
obtain input
Understand and
integrate knowledge
Inquire, reflect, assess,
develop purpose...
Develop Intake
from information
Use, explain and
Interpret
Develop criteria,
evaluate, create,
share...
Teaching
how to
Learning
how to
Adapted by Neus Lorenzo: https://www.slideshare.net/nlorenzo/aprenentatges-per-passar-del-jo-al-nosaltres-en-un-mn-digitalitzat
21st C. Skills
Participating
Acting
Leading
Global Challenges

7. Change
Innovation
Transformation

8. Change
Innovation
Transformation
Climate Change
Technological Innovation
Social Transformation
Different in some particular aspect
Become diferent or make differently
Something done in a new way
The introduction or discovery
of new things, ideas or
ways of doing something.
Altered form, composition or structure
A complete change
in somebody/something

9. Digital Transformation: everywhere…but school?
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10. The 4th Industrial Revolution is a major change

11. The World Has New Challenges
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12. Skills Demand Worldwide in 2020
Share of Jobs requiring skills bundle
as part of their core skills set, %
Source: World Economic Forum: Future of Jobs
Report:
http://reports.weforum.org/future-of-jobs-2016/shareable-infographics/
Complex Problem Solving 36%
–World Economic Forum
Only 10%
of jobs will
demand
Content
skills!

13. http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisa-2018-global-competence.htm
OECD Global Competence
The capacity:
To examine local, global and intercultural
issues critically, and from multiple
perspectives
To understand how differences affect the
perceptions, judgments, and opinions of
oneself and others ,
To engage in open, appropriate and effective
interactions with people from different
cultures and backgrounds, and
To act on the basis of a shared respect for
human dignity and collective well-being and
sustainable development.

14. Global Skills:
Creating Empowered
21st Century Citizens
- Communication and collaboration.
- Creativity and Critical thinking.
- Intercultural competence and citizenship
- Emotional Self-regulation and wellbeing
- Digital literacies
http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/elt/general_content/global/expert/oup-expert-global-skills.pdf?cc=fr&selLanguage=en&mode=hub
Critical for Lifelong Learning and Success:
Five Clusters Rellevant for ELT:

15. oxelt.gl/global-skills

16. Behaviourism
Focus on habit
-Positivist science
-Empiric analysis
Ivan P. Pavlov
B. F. Skinner
Albert Bandura
Ed. Lee Thorndike
John B Watson
Turning farming
societies into
industrial
economies
Structuralism
Focus on structure
-Linguistics
-Form & Function.
Ferdinand Saussure,
Roman Jacobson
Claude Lévy-Straus
Herbert Spencer
Talcott Parson
Turning industrial
societies into
multinational
capitalism
Constructivism
Focus on process
-Psycholinguistics
-Evolutionism
Jean Piaget,
Lew S. Vygotsky
Jerome Bruner
Laurence Kohlberg
Egan Kieran
Multinational econ.,
growing into a
worldwide
transnational
economy
Connectivism
Focus on blending
-Sociolinguistics
-Neuro-Sciences
Howard Gardner
George Siemens
Stephen Downes
Sugata Mitra
Mark Johnson
George Lakoff
Virtual economy,
networking in a hyper-
connected world,
toward social
awareness
Ref: Neus Lorenzo, Grup 6.sis, ICE-UB 2012
Evolution of the Social Context: towards 21st C Skills

17. From School Subject to Global Competence
Language Learning Evolution
1
2
3
4
n
Discipline
- Vocabulary
- Grammar
- Phonetics
- Spelling
-Textuality
Cross-disciplinarity
- Speaking
- Listening
- Reading
- Writing
- Interacting
Interdisciplinarity
- Inquiring
- Analysing
- Communicating
- Mediating
- Sharing
Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analysing, Evaluating, Creating
ContentFocus
Neus Lorenzo
Meta-reflection
Global
Competence
-21st C. Skills
-Attitudinal Mindsets
-Complexity Acceptance

18. United Nations Agenda 2030

19. Content:
Globalized Context
Curriculum Revision
21st C. Skills
Enhancing e-Learning
Evaluation inquiring
Why
What
Participation
How
The Role of Global Skills? Learning too live
together.

20. What is really rellevant for
living in a global world?

21. Adapted from https://www.ecohz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sdgs-food-azote-1280x834.jpg
Empowering Education through co-responsibility
PLANET
PEOPLE
PURPOSE
PROGRESS
PROSPERITY
PARTICIPATION
PROGRAMS
PROJECTS
PROFESSIONALS
CLIL, PBL, STEM, STEAM, DUAL, PLN…

22. A good teacher doesn’t
transfer passive
data: he/she generates
curiosity and cognitive
meta-reflection habits.

23. Elements and Dynamics
for Smart Pedagogy
• Transformational dynamics
• Educational principles
• Communication concept
• Learning theory
• Teacher’s role
• Student’s role
• Approaches and Methodologies
• Teaching strategies
• Learning objects
Source: Adapted fromNeus Lorenzo and Francesca
Burriel
https://www.asparis.org/uploaded/_ASP_Site_2016/Academics/Innovation_in_Learning/Innovation_LS2.jpg
PERFORMANCE
VALUES
BELIEFS

24. From “I learn...” to “We work together!”
Lexical memory
Formal
Behaviourism
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A
B
Cooperative
interaction
Global
Competences
Functional
Constructivism
Social
Connectivis
m

25. The Path for Education to Transform the World

26. Without Force

27. Out the comfort zone
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28. Developing 21st C. Skill
On Consolidated Theoretical Basis
Kilpatrick
Projects
Nunan
Tasks
J. Piaget
Cognitive Evolution
Kohlberg
Moral Dilemas
Kieran Egan
Orality
Vygotsky
Zone of
Proximal Dev.
Wilkins
Scaffords
Ferrer Guardia
Ausubel
Paolo Freire
Meaningful Learning
Montessori
J. Dewey
Asher (TPR)…
Active Learning
Jerome Bruner
Decroly
Freinet
Global Topics
Self-Access Corners
Approaches and Methodologies

29. Gaëlle Villedary: Vertigo at the Chateau de Ate at Verneil-le-Chétif, 2012
- Why is the artist using
this idea?
- What does the mirror
represent?
- What do you see here?
(Agree in 5 minutes)
COMMUNICATION
META- REFERENTIAL
IMPLICIT
EXPLICIT
Beyond the trees…
(A metaphor for educators)
21st C. Skills in Action:
Add a 4th question related to SDGs

30. Learning is not about
correct answers, but
about discovering new
questions that nobody
has asked before.

31. Oman in the World: Common Hurdles
1-Globalisation
-Sustainability
-Transformation
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2-Development
-Economic growth
-Social gaps
3-Identity
-Education
-Culture

33. Schools in Oman: Common
Challenges
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34. What is functioning well
in the existing curriculum?

35. Source: Neus Lorenzo, 2010
SocietySchool Classroom
Our Strengths...What is
functioning well
in the existing
curriculum?
Curriculum Development Spaces

36. Source: Neus Lorenzo, 2010
SocietySchool Classroom
Our Strengths...What is
functioning well
in the existing
curriculum?
Curriculum Development Spaces
[Meta-Reflection]
SELF-RECULATION
CRITICAL THINKING
CITIZENSHIP
CREATIVITY
COLLABORATION

37. Transformation ReadinessCurriculum Development
Providing Explicit Tools:
Lifelong learning resources in
formal and non-formal
international contexts.
Empowering Implicit Processes:
Collective knowledge-management,
global socioeconomic development,
and educational co-responsibilities.
Enhancing Citizens’ Meta-Reflection:
Consciousness of the human
dimension of 21st C. Global Skills
and their transformative potential.
Learning English:
Code development with
language-centred
interactive goals.
Learning in English:
Focusing on informational strategy,
contextualized communication,
action, and participation.
Learning to Learn Through English:
Creating new understandings and
attitudes, developing social values,
and socio-cultural skills for the future.
The Role of Curricula in Society
Components
Mechanics
Dynamics

38. https://www.thoughtco.com/thmb/zFl-kN7qkx-u3TR7HrSvFBPJnfg=/768x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/107312835-56a5f6db3df78cf7728abcfc.jpg
Curriculum in Focus: ELT Context Evolution
Focus: Grammar & Syntax
Irregular Verbs
Focus: Vocabulary and Semantics
The Animals
Focus: Situations and context
At the Zoo
Focus: Meaningful communication
Meeting pet-friends
Focus: Integrating Content (CLIL)
Save the Whales!
Focus: Transformation in the Digital Age
Join UNESCO’s School Projects!
Transforming
Creating
Evaluating
Analysing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering

39. WHAT TO TRANSFORM?
Different Educational Contexts, Different Strengths & Needs
https://unsplash.com/photos/NR_VNpqMcK0
Leonardo Miranda @mirandanene
-Students’ Role and Personalized Needs
-Teachers’ Role and Tutorial
Responsibility
-Content & Syllabus Choice
-Methodology and Teaching Techniques
-Assessment and Certification Process
-Formal and non-formal Spaces
-Resources and Tools

40. http://www.embracerefugees.org/css/images/temp/parallax-image.jpg
If education does not help to solve human problems,
it becomes a problem itself

41. Content:
Globalized Context
Curriculum Revision
21st C. Skills
Enhancing e-Learning
Evaluation inquiring
Why
What
Participation
How
The Role of Global Skills? Learning too live
together.

42. Education doesn’t
result from caring for
your future, but for the
past, present and
future of others.

43. Neus Lorenzo & Angels Soriano, 2018
Transforming
Creating
Evaluating
Analysing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering
https://sobrehistoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/las-piramides-de-egipto-kefren-1-600x450.jpg
Attitudes
Values
Skills
Knowledge
Technology
Data
Information
M. Mmantsetsa Marope, Patrick Griffin, Carmel Gallagher (2018),
Future Competences and the Future of Curriculum: A Global Reference for Curricula Transformation.
UNESCO IBE. http://www.ibe.unesco.org/sites/default/files/resources/02_future_competences_and_the_future_of_curriculum_30oct.v2.pdf
To Learn in a Globalised Digital World
A Global Reference for Curricula Transformation
(UNESCO IBE, 2018)
Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised v.2)
Explicit
Implicit
Meta-Referential
https://www.slideshare.net/nlorenzo/unesco-mobile-learning-week-2018-workshop-by-xatac5 s.30

44. https://www.omanobserver.om/first-trans-oceanic-crossing-record-arabian-sea-humpback-whale/
Beyond eKnowledge...
What?
Who
When?
Where?
Why? (...)
Omani whales

45. https://www.omanobserver.om/eso-renaissance-continue-arabian-sea-humpback-whale-conservation/ /
...To eLearning
What?
Who?
When?
Where?
How? (...)
Why?...
Who pays?
Who collaborates?
Is it fake?
Can I do it?
I want to go! (...)

46. New global skills: “Transliteralitat”
Ref: http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2060/1908
Trasnliteracy: http://librariesandtransliteracy.wordpress.com/what-is-transliteracy/
Translation– Translanguaging – Transliteracy

47. From Using Tools, To Meaningful Participation
UN Commission for Social Development (CSocD), September 2012
.: https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/egms/docs/2013/ict/BackgroundPaper.pdf
“Meaningful participation
is an interactive process,
mutually reinforcing:
through active
participation, people affect
the achievement of
objectives, and the
achievement of objectives
reinforces empowerment”.
Feedback Loop

48. LIFELONG LEARNING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
CLOUD,
BIG DATA,
IoT
LEARNING TO BECOME
A LEARNER
MOBILITY
AND
CONNECTIVITY
LEARNING TO LEARN
STRATEGIES AND METHODS
Technology for Education, a Journey in a Hybrid World
LEARNING
COMPUTER TOOLS
Connectivity
Complexity
AI

49. AI Learns About Context, Habits and
Private Feelings
H/H & H/M
Emotional RecognitionUsing Data and Big Data
From Context sensing

50. 21st C. Digital Literacies in
the Era of AI need to
empower the human
dimension of technology.

51. Exploring Integrated Curriculum Paradigms
•Culture• Cognition
•Content• Communication
Source: Neus Lorenzo • Constructivism
• Connectivism
• Critical thinking• Creativity
• Co-responsibility• Comprehension
• Collaboration • Citizenship
• Continuity• Context
• Convenience • Conditions

52. 21st C. Skills: Transforming
Education to Transform the World
The four pillars of education. Jacques Delors (1999)
 Common aims of 21st Century Skills:
 Pro-activity Practice and entrepreneurship
 Functionality For specific purposes
 Contextuality According to the environment
 Transversality Integrated and global
 Meta-cognition Promoting reflection on strategies
 Humanism Values, attitudes, existential ethics

53. https://elt.oup.com/catalogue/items/global/skills/q_skills_for_success_second_edition/?cc=fr&selLanguage=en&mode=hub
Q: Skills Series
Making judgements
Marking inferences
Sourcing information
Report on a class survey
Linking consonant to vowels
Conjunctions 'and' and 'but'
Using abbreviations and symbols
Decision Theory
Marketing Strategy
Percentages and factions
NOTE-TAKING
CRITICAL THINKING
LISTENING
VOCABULARY
GRAMMAR
PRONUNTIATION
SPEAKING

54. Explicit
Implicit
Meta-Referential
Ref: Lorenzo, N. Gallon, R (2018). “Event Horizon: Helping Students learn what nobody knows
yet”. Innovations, tecnologies and researchs in Education. Editetd by inda Daniela, Cambridge
Correlation with OECD Frameworks for PISA

55. Assessing levels for PISA Frameworks
MATHS
• Formulating situations mathematically;
• Employing mathematical concepts, facts, procedures, and reasoning;
• Interpreting, applying and evaluating mathematical outcomes
SCIENCE
• Explain phenomena scientifically;
• Evaluate and design scientific enquiry;
• Interpret data and evidence scientifically
READING
• access and retrieve
• integrate and interpret
• reflect and evaluate
Maths: http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/Draft%20PISA%202015%20Mathematics%20Framework%20.pdf
Science: http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/Draft%20PISA%202015%20Science%20Framework%20.pdf
Reading: http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/Draft%20PISA%202015%20Reading%20Framework%20.pdf
http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/Draft%20PISA%202015%20Collaborative%20Problem%20Solving%20Framework%20.pdf
COLLABORATION FOR PROBLEM SOLVING
• Establishing and maintaining shared understanding
• Taking appropriate action to solve the problem
• Establishing and maintaining team organisation
GLOBAL COMPETENCE
• Examine local, global and intercultural issues critically
• Understand how differences affect perceptions &
judgments
• Engage and on the basis of a shared respect for human
dignity and collective well-being.

56. Challenge:
Assessing Parts vs. Understanding All
Source: https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/03/28/the-art-of-cleanup-ursus-wehrli/

57. http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Fanpop-all-around-the-world-fanpop-583858_1024_768.jpg
Future

58. Transform our present towards a better future
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/09/10/thomas-piketty-migrants-crisis-europe-must-follow-germany-lead/Fyvj5pCy02tDBpDZd53ZGO/story.html

59. Source: @NewsNeus
21st C. Skills for a New Curricula...
... To learn WHAT
is really urgent,
essential and
ethical...
.

60. https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/72163_10200294999035852_581201366_n.jpg
... To learn HOW to live
together, sharing and
growing to make
a better world.
Thank you for making it possible.

61. Towards a Curriculum
for 21st C. Global Skills
Development:
Why and What for?
Sultanate of Oman, 7 January 2020
Workshop by Dr. Neus Lorenzo
nlorenzo@xtec.cat @NewsNeus
Wahiba Sands
http://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.net/b7cbf2fa-458a-469f-a8cb-f0139c638f83/F35453-FR-04_uxga.jpg
The role of global skills
in national policy and
in curriculum creation