21st CENTURY SKILLS

Create opportunities for students to work together on projects where each student takes responsibility for a specific aspect of the project. Decision-making and Goal setting.

• Collaboration

• Creativity

• Critical Thinking

• Communication

Is best elicited by open-ended design challenges e.g. Design your ideal school. A good way to encourage creativity is to limit some aspect of a design challenge, like limiting the materials that can be used to create a plane or even a bridge.

• Creativity

• Collaboration

• Critical Thinking

• Communication

To encourage critical thinking, teachers ask students to analyze a real-world problem, listing the issues and possible solutions as they see them. Analyzing and Arguing.

• Critical Thinking

• Communication

• Creativity

• Collaboration

A typical exercise that develops communication skills is to formulate and express an opinion. This is why doing peer review of each other’s designs or coding is so valuable for students. Listening, Reading, and Speaking.

• Communication

• Critical Thinking

• Critical Thinking

• Collaboration

Changes in economy and the labor market caused by Globalization and Internalization. Inspire students to be lifelong learners. Inspire students to be lifelong learners. Development of learner’s growth mindset approach. Understanding there are different talents, strengths, and opinions.

• 21st Century Teaching and learning

• Motion media

• Print media

• Manipulative and Interactive media

Access information efficiently and effectively, Evaluate information critically and competently, Use of information accurately and creatively for the issue or problem at hand .

• Information Literacy

• Media Literacy

• ICT Literacy

• Life and Career Skills

Understand how media messages are constructed, for what purposes and using which tools, characteristics and conventions.

• Media Literacy

• ICT Literacy

• Information Literacy

• Life and Career Skills

Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate and communicate information. Use digital technologies (Computer, PDA’s, Media players, GPS, etc.), Communication/ networking tools and social networks appropriately to access, manage, integrate, evaluate and create information to successfully function in a knowledge economy.

• ICT Literacy

• Media Literacy

• Information Literacy

• Life and Career Skills

Adapting to varied roles and responsibilities. Working effectively in a climate of ambiguity and changing priorities. characterized by a ready capability to adapt to new, different, or changing requirements

• Flexibility and Adaptability

• Initiative and Self-direction

• Social and Cross-cultural Skills

• Productivity and Accountability

energy or aptitude displayed in initiation of action, monitoring one’s own understanding and learning needs, demonstrating commitment to learning as a lifelong process, going beyond basic mastery of skills to explore and expand one’s own learning and opportunities to gain expertise.

• Initiative and Self-Direction

• Flexibility and Adaptability

• Social and Cross-cultural Skills

• Productivity and Accountability