This document discusses skills needed for the 21st century including learning and innovation skills, life and career skills, information/media/technology skills, and core subjects. It outlines findings from research on administrators' perceptions of how their schools emphasize 21st century skills through technology use. The research found administrators were more aware of 21st century skills than teachers. It also found administrators perceived stronger positive effects of technology on student behaviors and skills than teachers perceived.

2. Life and
Career
Skills
Information,
Media, and
Technology
skills
Learning and
Innovation Skills
Core Subjects
and 21st Century
Themes
Standards and
Assessments
Curriculum and Instruction
Professional Development
Learning Environments

3. Learning and Innovation
Skills (The 4C’s)
Life and Career Skills Information, Media and
Technology skills
Critical thinking and
problem-solving
Flexibility and
adaptability
Information literacy
Creativity and
innovation
Initiative and self-
direction
Media- literacy
Communication Social and cross-
cultural interaction
ICT Literacy
Collaboration Productivity and
accountability
Leadership and
responsibility

4. Skills Behavioral Indicators
Financial literacy
Health Literacy
Technology Literacy
Civic Literacy
Employability Literacy
What
do I
need
to
remember?
Educators of the 21st century must have
he following literacy skills.
Write behavioral indicators to
manifest the said literacy in your daily life as
a teacher.

5. What
does
research
say
about
this?
Title of the research: Educators, Technology and 21st
Century Skills: Dispelling the Five Myths:- a
study on the Connection Between K to
12Technology and 21st Century Skills
Subtitle: Administrators’ Perception of
Their Schools with Emphasis on
21st Century Skills
Researchers: Richard W. Riley
College of Education and Leadership
Walden University

6. Their Findings:
1. Administrators seemed to more aware than the teachers of the
term 21st century skills.
2. Teachers who were frequent technology users did not place the
most emphasis on the 21st century skills as frequent users do.
3. Majority of the administrators believe that their schools very
strongly emphasized 21st century skills.
4. Administrators have somewhat stronger perceptions than teacher
of the positive effects of technology on student behaviors associated
with 21st century skills and engagement in learning than teachers.
5. Administrators have somewhat stronger perceptions of the positive
effects for students of the following skills.

7. 5.1 Communicating thoughts effectively in visual form
5.2 Analyzing information
5.3 Being open to diverse perspectives
5.4 Communicating thoughts effectively in written form
5.5 Understanding the global issues and implications for their
work.
References;
www.grunwald.com.pdf/educators_technology_21st century-skills-
grunwald-walden_report.pdf