The document discusses the skills needed for the 21st century. It notes that the digital age has led to unprecedented growth in technology and information. Several studies have identified key life, career and learning skills needed for success in this environment. These include skills like critical thinking, communication, collaboration, accessing and evaluating information, and being able to use technology effectively. The document outlines these skills in more detail and discusses how instruction should incorporate things like real-world applications, deeper understanding, technology, and project/problem-based learning to help students develop these abilities. It also discusses the characteristics expected of 21st century teachers, such as adapting to new tools, understanding different learning styles, taking risks, and modeling behaviors for students.

1. by: Mariel B. Taculod

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. New
technologies and tools multiply the market daily
and the new technologies of today are outdated
almost as soon as the reach the market. Numerous
studies and reports have emerged over the past
decades 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.

3. • Using knowledge and understanding to create new ways of
thinking in order to find solutions to new problems
• To create new products and services
Think Creatively:
• Use a wide range of idea creation techniques( 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
Work Creatively with others
• Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others
effectively
• Be open and responsive to new and diverse perpectives;
incorporate group input and feedback into the work
• Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and
understand the real worldlimits to adopting new ideas
• View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that
creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of a
small successes and frequent mistakes
Implementing Innovations
• Act on creatuve ideas to make a tangible and useful
contribution to the field in which the innovayion will occur

4. • Communicting effectively in a wide variety of forms and
contexts for a wide range of purposes and using multiple
media and technologies
Communicate Clearly
• Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written
and nonverbalcommunication skills in a variety of forms and
contexts
• Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge,
values, attitude, and intentions
• Use communication for a range of purpose (e.g to inform,
instruct, innovate, and persuade and in diverse environments(
including ,ulti-lingual)
• Utilize multiple media and technologies , and know how to
judge their effectiveness a priori as well as assess their impact

5. Working with others respectfully and effectively to create,
use and share knowledge, solutions and innovations
Collaborate with Others
Demonstrate abilitity to work effectively and respectfully
with diverse teams
Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making
necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal
Assume shared responsiblity for collaborative work and
value the individual contributions made by each team
member

6. • Accessing, analyzing, synthesizing,
creating
• sharing information from multiple
sources

7. • Creating the capacity to identify
and use technology efficiently,
effectively and ethicalyy as a tool
to access, organize, evaluate and
share information

8. • Developing skills for becoming
self-directed , indepent learners
and workers who can adapt to
change , manage projects, take
responsibility for their work, lead
others and produce result

9. 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

11. Access and Evaluate Information
Access information efficiently (time and effectively
(sources)
Evaluate informatkion critically and competently
Use and Manage Information
Use information accurately and creatively for the issue or
problem at hand
Mangae flow of informatkon from a wide variety of
sources
Apply a fundmental understanding of the ethical/legal
issuse surounding the access and use of information

12. Analyze Media
• Understand both how and why media messages rae
constructed and for what purposes
• Examine how individuals intepret messages differently,
how values and points of vies are included or excluded
, and how media can influence beliefs and behaviors
• Apply fundamental understanding of the tehical/legal
issus surrounding the accsess and use of media
Create Media Products
• Understand and utilize the most appropriate medai
creation tools, characteristics and convetions
• Understand and effectively utilize the most appropriate
expresisions and interpretations in diverse, multi-
cultural environments

13. Apply TEchnology Effectively
• USe technology as a tool to research,
organize, evaluate and communicate
information
• Use digitaltechnologies, communication/
networking tools and social networks
appropriatelt to access, mange,
integrate,evaluate and create information to
seccessfully function in a knowledge economy
• Apply a fundamental understanding of vthe
ethuical/legal issues surrounding the access
and use of information technologies.

14. • These skills are about the thinking processes and behaviors students will use as
they learn subject area content and work woth others to deepen their
understanding of the content. All of the frameworks emphasize the need to
ground 21st century skills in core content, an expecially in an interdisciplinary
fashion. Organizing instruction around important concepts and “big ideas”
helps students create conceptual structures for stiring,retrieving and using
information in anew and unanticipated ways. As the 21st century skills are
integrated into content, come key design principles include:
• Connecting the content knowledge to real-world applications and problem
situations
• Emphasizing deep understanding of the learning
• Help Students understand and monitor the thinking processes they are using
• Using technology to help students access, analyze organize and share what
ther are learning and allow students to independentky locate appropriate tools
for th task
• Providing opportunities to students to become “creators as well as consumers
of published information”
• Engaging students in solving complex problems that require higher orded
thinking and application of content and that results in new perspectives and
solutions to problems

15. Instruction that meets the needs of today's
students will incorporate
• A variety of learning ooportunities 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 beyond the classroom

17. • There are essential skills for the Digital learners that
should consider in giving appropriate activities and
assessments but what about the 21st Century Teacher,
what are the characteristics we would expect to see in
them?
• Must be able to adapt the curriculum
• Be able to adapt software and hardware
• Be able to adapt to a dynamic teaching experience
• Must understannd and apply different learning styles

18. • Must see the potential in the
emerging tools and web
technologies, grasp and
manipulate them
• Can look at others ideas and
envisage how would they use
these in their class
• Looks across the disciplines and
through the curricula

19. • Able to leverage these
collaborative tools to enchance
and captivate our learners
• must be collaborators, sharing ,
contributing, adapting and
inventing

20. • Must take risks and some times
surrender yourself to the students
knowledge
• Have a vission of what you want
and what technology can achieve,
identify the goals facilitate
learning
• Use the strength of the digital
natives to understand and
navigate new products

21. • We expect our students to be life-
long learners
• must continue to absorb new
possibilities and experiences
• must endeavor to stay current
• The 21st Century Teacher or
educator must learn and adapt

22. • Are fluent in tools and
technologies that enable
communication and collaboration
• Know how to use different media
in communication
• Allows students to be able to
express their insight and share
their thoughts

23. Must model the behaviours that are
expected from their students
Educators are often the most
consistent part of our student life
They model: Tolerance, Acceptance,
a wider view than just their curricula
areas, global awareness and
reflection

24. • Clear goals and objectives is
crucial to the success or failure of
any project