21st Century Skills

Which component is the most important in 21st Century Learning?

• Learning and Innovation Skills
• All are important as they are interconnected.
• Information, Media, and Technology Skills
• Life and Career Skills

The ability to reason effectively, use systems thinking, make judgments and decisions, and solve problems.

• Collaboration
• Critical Thinking
• Communication
• Creativity

The ability to articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written, and non-verbal skills and to listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes, and intentions.

• Collaboration
• Critical Thinking
• Communication
• Creativity

Demonstrate ability 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 responsibility for group work, and value the individual contributions made by each team member

• Creativity
• Critical Thinking
• Communication
• Collaboration

Use a wide range of idea creation techniques to create new and worthwhile ideas ` Elaborate, refine, analyze, and evaluate original ideas to improve. Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real world limits to adopting new ideas. Act on ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which the innovation will occur.

• Creativity
• Critical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Communication

What is NOT true about the assessment of 21st century skills?

• Emphasizes useful feedback of student performance
• Support a balance of assessments, including high-quality standardized tests
• Enables development of portfolios of student work that demonstrate mastery of 21st century skills
• Emphasizes the importance of all studying to be done through collaboration or webchats

ICT Literacy refers to

• Information, Communications and Technology
• Information, Collaborations and Thinking
• Internet Communication and Twitter
• Internet Communication and Technology