The document discusses skills needed for 21st century learners and teachers. It identifies 8 key skills for learners: creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, information management, technology use, career/life skills, and cultural awareness. Each skill is further defined by sub-skills. The document also discusses characteristics of 21st century teachers, including being adaptable, visionary, collaborative, risk-taking, lifelong learners, communicators, models, and leaders. It emphasizes the importance of resources, skills, and integrating technology into the curriculum to facilitate 21st century learning.

1. THE 21ST CENTURY DIGITAL LEARNER
Quiapo, Rina Mae
(M-F 10:30-11:30 am)

2. The 21st century dawned as the beginning of the
Digital Age – a time of unprecedented growth
in technology and its subsequent information
explosion. New technologies of today are
outdated almost as soon as they reach the
market, while there are some differences in
how the skills are categorized or interpreted,
there are also many commonalities.

3. 1. 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

4. THINK CREATIVELY
• Use a wide range of idea creation techniques
(such as brainstorming)
• Create new and worthwhile ideas(both
incremental and radical concepts)
• Elaborate, refine, analyze, and evaluate ideas
in order to improve and maximize creative
efforts
• Demonstrate imagination and curiosity

5. WORK CREATIVELY with OTHERS
• Develop, implement, and communicate new
ideas to others effectively
• Be open and responsive to new and diverse
perspective
• Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in
work and understand the real world limits to
adopting new ideas
• View failure as opportunity to learn;
understand that creativity and innovation is a
long-term, cyclical process of small successes
and frequent mistakes

6. IMPLEMENT INNOVATIONS
• Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and
useful contribution to the field in which the
innovation will occur

7. 2. 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 various types of reasoning (e.g., inductive,
deductive, etc.) as appropriate to the situation

8. Make Judgments and Decisions
• Effectively analyze and evaluate evidence,
arguments, claims and beliefs
• Analyze and evaluate major alternative points of
view
• Synthesize and make connections between
information and arguments
• Interpret information and draw conclusions
based on the best analysis
• Reflect critically on learning experiences and
processes

9. SOLVE PROBLEMS
• Solve different kinds of non – familiar
problems in both conventional and innovative
ways
• Identify and ask significant questions that
clarify various points of view and lead to
better solutions

10. 3. COMMUNICATIONS
• Communicating effectively in a wide variety of
forms and context for a wide range of
purposes and using multiple media and
technologies.

11. Communicative Clearly
• Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using
oral, written, and nonverbal communication
• Listen effectively to decipher meaning,
including knowledge, values, attitudes, and
intentions
• Use communications for a range of purpose
Utilize multiple media and technologies, and
how to judge their effectiveness a priori as
well as assess their impact

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

13. Collaborate with Others
• Demonstrate ability to work effectively and
respectfully with diverse teams
• Exercise flexibility and willingness

14. 5. INFORMATIVE MANAGEMENT
• Accessing, analyzing, synthesizing, creating
and sharing information from multiple
sources.
6. EFFECTIVE USE of TECHNOLOGY
• Creating the capacity to identify the use
technology efficiently, effectively end ethically
as a tool access, organize, evaluate and share
information

15. 7. 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.
8. 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.

16. Information, Media and Technology Skills
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
Manage and flow of information from a wide
variety of sources
Apply a fundamental understanding of the
ethical legal issues

17. MEDIA LITERACY
Analyze Media
• Understand both how and why media messages
are constructed and for what purposes
• Examine how individuals interpret messages
differently
• Apply a fundamental understanding of ethical/
legal issues
Create Media Products
• Understand and utilized the most appropriate
media creation tools
• Understand and effectively utilized the most
appropriate expressions and interpretations in
diverse, multi-cultural environments

18. ICT (INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS AND
TECHNOLOGY) LITERACY Apply Technology
Effectively
• Use technology as a tool to research, organize,
and communicate information
• Use digital technologies communication/
networking tools and social networks
appropriately to access
• Apply a fundamental understanding of the
ethical/ legal issues surrounding the access
and use of information technologies

19. Integrating 21st Century Skills with Content
• These skills are about the thinking processes
and behaviors students will use as they learn
subject area content and work with others to
deepen their understanding of the content,
and especially in an interdisciplinary fashion.

20. • Connecting the content knowledge to real-world
application and problem situation
• Emphasizing deep understanding of the learning by
focusing on projects and problems
• Helping students understand and monitor the
thinking process
• Using technology to help students access, analyze,
organized and shared
• Providing opportunities for students to become
“creator as well as consumers of published
information”

21. • Engaging students in solving complex
problems that require higher order thinking
and application
• Providing opportunities for students to work
collaborative as they gather information, solve
problems, share ideas, and generate new
ideas
• Developing life and career skills by creating
opportunities for students to become self-
directed learners.
• Helping students make connections between
subjects, concepts and ideas.

22. Instruction that meets the needs of
today’s students will incorporate
• A variety of learning opportunities and
activities
• The use of appropriate technology tools to
accomplish learning goals
• Project- and problem-based learning
• Cross-curricular connections
• A focus on inquiry and the student-led
investigations
• Collaborative learning environments, both
within and beyond the classroom

23. The 21st Century Teacher
There are essential skills for the Digital learners
that teachers should consider in giving
appropriate activities and assessments to their
learners. But what about the 21st Century
Teacher, what are the characteristics we would
expect to see in a 21st Century Educator

24. The Adaptor
• They must also be able to adapt software and
hardware designed for a business model into
tools utilizable by a variety of age groups and
abilities.
• They must also be able to adapt to a dynamic
teaching experience.
• As an educator, they must understand and
apply different learning styles.

25. The Visionary
• They must see the potential in the emerging
tools and web technologies, grasp these and
manipulate them to serve their needs.
• The visionary teacher can look at others ideas
and envisage how they would use these in
their class
• The visionary also looks across the disciplines
and through the curricula

26. The Collaborator
• Ning, Blogger, Wikispaces, Bebo, MSN,
Myspace, Second life - as an educator we must
be able to leverage these collaborative tools
to enhance and captivate our learners.

27. The Risk Taker
• A 21st Century Educator must take risks and some
times surrender yourself to the students
knowledge.
• Have a vision of what you want and what the
technology can achieve, identify the goals and
facilitate the learning.
• Use the strengths of the digital natives to
understand and natives new products, have the
students teach each other.
• The learning pyramid shows that the highest
retention of knowledge comes from teaching
others.

28. The Learner
• We expect our students to be life long
learners. How many schools have the phrase
“life long learners” in their mission statements
and objectives. We too must continue to
absorb new possibilities and experiences. We
must endeavor to stay current.

29. The Communicator
• The 21st century teachers are fluent in tools
and technologies that enable communication
and collaboration. They know how to use
different media in communication. It allows
students to be able to express their insights
and share their thoughts in a topic or any
issues that concern them.

30. The Model
• The Digital teacher must model the behaviors
that are expected from the students.
• The Educators are often the most consistent part
of our student life.
• The 21st Century Educator also models reflective
practice, whether its the quiet, personal
inspection of their teaching and learning, or
through reflective practice via blogs, twitter and
other medium, these educators look both
inwards and outwards.

31. These teachers also model a number of other
characteristics. These are not necessarily
associated with ICT or the curriculum, but are
of equal importance. They model:
• Tolerance
• Acceptance
• A wider view than just their curricula areas
• Global awareness
• Reflection

32. The Leader
• Leadership, like clear goals and objectives is
crucial to the success or failure of any object.

33. Facilitating 21st Century Learning
ICT is an abbreviation for Information and
Communication Technologies. This is a vast
variety of tools and technologies
encompassing personal computing, the
Internet, phones, fax and everything in
between. In facilitating 21st Century learning,
there are three factors that administrators and
educators are deliberately considering in the
implementation of Technology in Education.

34. 1. The Resources
• Interactive whiteboards
• Classroom desktop computers
• Pods of laptops or one to one programs
• PDA’s, ipods and cellphones
• Educationally focused software
• Learning and content management systems
• Video and audio conferencing
• Media production facilities
• Learning spaces for the 21st Century

35. Coupled with abundant access to
resources, high speed internet access, suitable
and appropriate communications tools are
great enablers. If with this you also have
resource materials for teaching and learning,
tailored to your curriculum then ICT
implementation is easier.
Resources are also Professional
development and time. Time is a precious and
limited resource.

36. 2. Skills
Skills, fall into two categories; Technical and
Pedagogical. By Technical skills, it refers to the
ability to operate the resources provided to
you. The ability as a 21st Century teacher to
adapt, adopt and modify. The confidence and
competence to teach and facilitate the use of
these technologies. The second category,
pedagogical skills, is the more important of
the two.

37. 3. Curriculum
Integrating curricula that support ICT
integration are dynamic. The use of ICTs is
mandatory and global, inclusive and specific.
The selection of tools and resources are
curriculum driven. These units are constantly
reviewed. Teachers and students contribute to
the development and revision of the learning
experience.