Learning collaboration skills through technology, critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making are essential 21st century skills. Researchers identified four broad categories of 21st century skills: ways of thinking, ways of working, tools for working, and skills for living in the world. These skills include creativity, communication, citizenship, and collaborative problem-solving using technology and digital networks.

1. What Are 21st-Century Skills?

2. • Learning to collaborate
with others and
• connecting through
technology
are essential skills in a knowledge-based
economy.

3. ATC21S started with a group of more than 250 researchers across 60
institutions worldwide who categorized 21st-century skills
internationally into four broad categories:

4. • Creativity
• Critical thinking
• Problem-solving
• Decision-making
• Learning
Ways of THINKING

5. Ways of WORKING
• Communication
• Collaboration

6. • Information and
communications
technology (ICT)
• Information
literacy
Tools for WORKING

7. • Citizenship
• Life and career
• Personal responsibility
• Social responsibility
http://atc21s.org/index.php/about/what-are-
21st-century-skills/
Skills for LIVING IN THE WORLD

8. Collaborative problem-solving
Working together to solve a common
challenge which involves the
contribution and exchange of ideas,
knowledge or resources to achieve the
goal.
Putting Concepts Into Practice

9. Learning through digital means
• social networking,
• ICT literacy,
• technological awareness and simulation.
Each of these elements enables
individuals to function in social networks
and contribute to the development of
social and intellectual capital.
ICT literacy — learning in digital
networks