Skills+Needed+for+the+21st+Century

Why do my kids need to know this?(Why am I doing this? What is the connection to their life right now?Connection to world?) What are the 21st Century skills they will develop?(What are they going to do that will help them right now?) What makes this unit stick?(Concrete?Surprise?Simple?Credible?Emotional?Story?Fun?)


 * 21 Skills** **for 21st century learning!**
 * **Can your students....** ||
 * Make complex choices? ||
 * Benchmark a process? ||
 * manage a negotiation? ||
 * Communicate clearly? ||
 * Motivate others? ||
 * Connect globally? ||
 * Organize information? ||
 * Cope with change? ||
 * Read a digital map? ||
 * Demonstrate innovativeness? ||
 * Resolve conflict? ||
 * Distinguish fact from opinion? ||
 * Respond to a blog? ||
 * Frame problems and solutions? ||
 * Sell ideas to others/ ||
 * Give an effective presentation? ||
 * Set priorities and goals? ||
 * Lead a team? ||
 * Use technology well? ||
 * Learn outside the classroom? ||
 * Work effectively in teams? ||
 * Sell ideas to others/ ||
 * Give an effective presentation? ||
 * Set priorities and goals? ||
 * Lead a team? ||
 * Use technology well? ||
 * Learn outside the classroom? ||
 * Work effectively in teams? ||
 * Learn outside the classroom? ||
 * Work effectively in teams? ||
 * Work effectively in teams? ||

440 Human resource managers

80% Work ethic 75% Collaboration 70% Communication 63% Socially Responsible 58% Critical Thinkers and problem solvers
 * Attributes for future hires**

Of graduates that you hired, what are their deficiencies relative to what you expect?** 81% Written Communication 73% Leadership 70% Work Ethic 70% Problem solving and critical thinking 58% Inadequately self directed
 * What do you think about HS grads?

78% Critical Thinking 77% Information Technology 76% Knowledge of health and wellness 74% Collaboration 74% Innovation 72% Personal financial responsibility
 * What will be the most important in five years?**

Critical thinking communicate collaborate Problem solve Innovation and creation Problem Solving
 * Learning and Thinking Skills**

Use tech skills to do learning and thinking skills
 * Tech Skills**

Global Awarness Civic engagement Health and wellness Business financial and economic literacy
 * 21st Century Content**

Work ethic Motivate Leadership People skills Social responsibility Self directed learners Personal responsibility
 * Life Skills**

Passion Love Hard work Be Good at it focus practice Push yourself Serve -- give someone something Ideas listen observe be curious ask Qs problem solve make connections

Raymond S. Nickerson (1987), an authority on critical thinking, characterizes a good critical thinker in terms of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, and habitual ways of behaving. Here are some of the characteristics of such a thinker:
 * uses evidence skillfully and impartially
 * organizes thoughts and articulates them concisely and coherently
 * distinguishers between logically valid and invalid inferences
 * suspends judgment in the absence of sufficient evidence to support a decision
 * understands the difference between reasoning and rationalizing
 * attempts to anticipate the probable consequences of alternative actions
 * understands the idea of degrees of belief
 * sees similarities and analogies that are not superficially apparent
 * can learn independently and has an abiding interest in doing so
 * applies problem-solving techniques in domains other than those in which learned
 * can structure informally represented problems in such a way that formal techniques, such as mathematics, can be used to solve them
 * can strip a verbal argument of irrelevancies and phrase it in its essential terms
 * habitually questions one's own views and attempts to understand both the assumptions that are critical to those views and the implications of the views
 * is sensitive to the difference between the validity of a belief and the intensity with which it is held
 * is aware of the fact that one's understanding is always limited, often much more so than would be apparent to one with a noninquiring attitude
 * recognizes the fallibility of one's own opinions, the probability of bias in those opinions, and the danger of weighting evidence according to personal preferences