The document discusses the skills needed for the 21st century, including creativity, innovation, critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, information management, technology use, career skills, cultural awareness, information literacy, and media literacy. It emphasizes using these skills through interdisciplinary and real-world applications, collaboration, project-based learning, and technology integration. Developing these skills will help students succeed in today's Digital Age.

2. The 21st century 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.

3. 1. Creativity and Innovation:
:Using knowledge and understanding to create new ways
of thinking in order to find solutions to new problems and create
new products and services.
Think Creativity
:Use a wide range of idea creation techniques (such
brainstorming).

4. : 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 Creativity with others:
: Develop. Implement, and communicate new ideas to
others effectively.
: Be open and responsive to new and diverse
perspective; incorporate group input and feedback into the
work.

5. : Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and
understand the real world limits to adopting new ideas
: View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that
creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small
successes and frequent mistakes.
Implement Innovation:
: Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful
contribution to the field in which the innovation will occur.
2. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving:
: Applying higher order 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.

6. Reason Effectively:
:Use various types of reasoning appropriate to the
situation.
Use System Thinking:
: Analyze how parts of a whole interact with each other
to produce overall outcomes in complex system.
Make Judgments and Decisions:
: Effectively analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments,
claims and beliefs.
: Analyze and evaluate major alternative points of view.

7. : Synthesize and make connections between information
and arguments.
: Interpret information and draw conclusions based on
the best on the best analysis.
: Reflect critically on learning experiences and processes.
Solve Problems:
: Solve different kinds of non-familiar problems in both
conventional and innovative ways.
: Identify and ask significant question that clarify various
points of view and lead to better solutions.

8. Communication:
: Communication 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 nonverbal communication skills in a variety of
forms and contexts.
: Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including
knowledge, values, attitudes, and attentions.

9. 4. Collaboration:
: Working with others respectfully and effectively to
create, use and share knowledge, solutions and innovations.
Collaborate with others:
: Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully
with diverse teams.
5. Information Management:
: Accessing analyzing, synthesizing, creating and sharing
information from multiple sources.
6. Effective Use of Technology:
: Creating the capacity to identify and use technology
efficiency effectively and ethically as a tool access, organize,
evaluate and share information.

10. 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 to
others from a wide range of cultural and social backgrounds.

11. 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
or problem at hand.
: Manage the flow of information from a wide variety
sources.

12. MEDIA LITERACY
Analyze Media:
: Understand both how and why media messages are
constructed and for what purposes
: Examine how individuals interpret messages differently,
how values and points of view are included or excluded, and how
media can influence beliefs and behaviors
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

13. ICT LITERCY
Apply Technology Effectively
: Use the technology as a tool to research, organize,
evaluate, and communicate information.
: Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal
issues surrounding the access and use of information
technologies.
: Use digital technologies communication/networking
tools, and social networks appropriately to access, manage,
integrate, evaluate, and create information to successfully
function in a knowledge economy.

14. : These skills are both 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. All lf the framework
emphasize the need to ground 21st century skills in core
content, and especially in an interdisciplinary fashion.
: Connecting the content knowledge to real world
applications and problems situations that enable
students to see how what they are learning connects
with their lives and the world around them.

15. : Emphasizing deep understanding of the learning by
focusing on projects and problems that require students to use
the content knowledge in new ways and to extend their
understanding through collaboration with others.
: Helping students understand and monitor thinking
processes they are using by including metacognitive activities
that ask students to reflect on their use of thinking structures
and the effectiveness of the thinking strategies they employed.
: Using the technology to help students access, analyze,
organize and share what they are learning and allow students to
independently locate appropriate tools for the task.
: Providing opportunities for students to become “
creators as well as consumers of published information by
providing opportunities for creating and verifying their own
entries in collaborative sites and evaluating contributions of
others.

16. : Engaging students in solving complex problems that
require higher order thinking and application of content and that
result in new perspective and solutions to problems.
: 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 who
take responsibility for their own learning and who learn how to
work effectively with others.
: Helping students make connections between subjects,
concepts and ideas and with others, including those outside of
the classroom.

17. : The 21st century skills are not really different. We have
always wanted students to be creative thinkers and problem
solvers who have the skills necessary to function effectively in
society and in the workplace.

18. : A variety of learning opportunities and activities.
: The use of opportunities 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.
: High levels of visualization and the use of visual to
increase understanding.
: Frequent, formative assessments including the use of
self assessments.