The document discusses the skills needed for 21st century learners and educators. It identifies key skills for learners like creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration and use of technology. It also outlines characteristics needed for educators to be effective in the digital age, including being adaptable to changing technologies, envisioning new possibilities, taking risks, lifelong learning, and modeling desired behaviors for students. Educators must leverage collaborative tools, absorb new experiences, and keep instruction relevant in order to develop these skills in students.

1. The 21st Century Digital
Learners

2. The 21st century as the beginning of the Digital Age- a time
of unprecedented growth in technology and its subsequent
information explosion.
New technologies and tools multiply daily and the new
technologies of today are outdated almost as soon as they reach
the market.

3. There are some differences in how the skills are categorized or interpreted, there
are also many commonalities. Common skills across most of the studies include:
Creativity and Innovation
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Communications
Collaboration
Information Management
Effective Use of Technology
Career and Life Skills
Cultural Awareness

4.  Using knowledge and understanding
to create new ways of thinking in
order to find solutions to new
problems and to create new products.

5. Think Creatively
Use a wide range of idea creation
techniques(brainstorming)
Work Creatively with Others
Be open and responsive to new and diverse
perspectives; incorporate group input and feedback
into the work
Implement Innovations
Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful
contribution to the field in which innovation will
occur.

6. Applying higher order thinking to new problems and issues,
using appropriate reasoning as they effectively analyze the
problem and make decisions.

7. Reason Effectively
-Use various type of reasoning asappropriate . to the situations.
Use Systems Thinking
-Analyze how parts of a whole interact witheach . other to produce overall outcomes
in complex systems.
Make Judgments and Decisions
-Effectivelyanalyzeand evaluateevidence, arguments, claims and beliefs
-Reflect criticallyon learningexperiencesand process.
Solve Problems
-Solve differentkinds of non-familiar problemsin both conventional and innovativeways
-Identify and asksignificantquestions that clarifyvarious points of view

8. COMMUNICATION
Communicating effectively in a wide
variety of forms and contexts for a wide
range of purposes and using multiple
media and technologies.

9. Communicate Clearly
•Articulate thoughts and ideas
effectively using oral, written, and
nonverbal communication skills in a
variety of forms and contexts
•Listen effectively to decipher
meaning, including knowledge, values,
attitudes, and intentions.
•Use communication for a range of
purpose.

10. COLLABORATION
Working with others
respectfully and effectively to
create, use and share
knowledge, solutions and
innovations

11. Accessing, analyzing, synthesizing, creating and
sharing information from multiple sources.

12. Creating the capacity to identify and use technology efficiently,
effectively and ethically as a tool to access, organize, evaluate and share
information.

13. 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.

14.  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

15. Information, Media and
Technology Skills

17. Information Literacy
Access and Evaluate Information
•Access information efficiently and effectively
•Evaluate information critically and competently
Use and Manage Information
•Use information accurately and creatively for the issue at hand
•Manage the flow of information
•Apply fundamental understanding of the ethical or logical issues.
Media Literacy
Analyze Media
•Understand both how and why media messages are constructed and for what
purposes

19. Analyze Media
•Understand both how and why media messages are constructed and for what
purposes
Create Media Products
•Understand and utilize the most appropriate media creation tools, characteristics,
and conventions.
•Understand and effectively utilize the most appropriate expressions and
interpretations in diverse, multi-cultural environments.

20. Apply Technology Effectively
-Use technology as a tool to
research, organize, evaluate, and
communicate information.

22. Characteristics of 21st Century
Educator
Adaptor
Visionary
Collaborator
Risk taker
Learner
Communicator
Model
Leader

23. ADAPTOR
-Teacher should always make their
teaching styles adaptive to the new
curriculum requirements.
Must also adapt software and hardware designed for a business model
Must also be able to adapt to a dynamic teaching experience
Must understand and apply different learning styles

24. VISIONARY
-Imagination, a key component of
adaptability, is a crucial component of
educator of today and tomorrow
Must see the potential in the emerging tools and web technologies
Also look across the disciplines and through the curricula
Can look at other ideas and envisage how they use these in their class

25. They say:
As an educator we must be able to leverage these collaborative tools to enhance and
captivate our learners
Must be collaborators; sharing; contributing’ adapting and inventing
COLLABORATOR
Ning
Blogger
Wikispaces
Bebo
MSN
MySpace
Second Life

26. RISK TAKER
-Teachers shouldn’t wait for others to take the
initiative, they have to be the lead
Must take risk and surrender their selves for the student knowledge
Have a vision of what you want and what the technology can achieve
Use the strengths of the digital natives to understand and navigate new products

27. LEARNER
-Life of a teacher begins the day
you realize that you are always a
learner
Teachers expect students to be a life ling learners
Must continue to absorb new possibilities and experiences
Must endeavor to stay current
Teachers must learn and adapt

28. LEADER
-to be a teacher leader means to be a teacher
who has the best interest of the students at
the fore front of their teaching practices.
Like clear goals and objectives is crucial to the success or failure
of any project

29. MODEL
-teachers also model a number of other characteristics:
Tolerance
Acceptance
A wider than just their curricula areas
Global awareness
Reflection
Digital teacher must model the behaviors that are expected from their students
Educators are often the most consistent part of our student life
Also models reflective practice

30. MODEL
-teachers also model a number of other characteristics:
Tolerance
Acceptance
A wider than just their curricula areas
Global awareness
Reflection
Digital teacher must model the behaviors that are expected from their students
Educators are often the most consistent part of our student life
Also models reflective practice