21st Century Skills

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21st Century Skills

• A Webinar
• February 17th and 21st, 2006

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Todays Webinar

• Overview of 21st Century Skills
• What are the skills?
• What is the importance?
• Alignment with ET-IL
• Helpful Resources
• Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• NCREL enGauge 21st Century Skills
• Others

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Six Elements of 21st Century Learning
What are 21st Century Skills?

• Emphasize core subjects
• Emphasize learning skills
• Use 21st century tools to develop learning skills
• Teach and learn in a 21st century context
• Teach and learn 21st century content
• Use 21st century assessment that measure 21st
  century skills

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What are 21st Century Skills?
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21st Century Skills

• Core Subjects
• English
• Reading/Language Arts
• Mathematics
• Science
• Foreign Language
• Civics
• Government
• Economics
• Art
• History
• Geography

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21st Century Skills- Learning Skills

• Information and Communications Skills
• Communication Skills
• Information Media Literacy
• Thinking and Problem Solving
• Problem Identification, Formulation and Solution
• Creativity and Intellectual Curiosity
• Critical Thinking and Systems Thinking

• Interpersonal and Self Direction Skills
• Self-Direction
• Accountability and Adaptability
• Social Responsibility
• Interpersonal and Collaboration

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NCREL enGauge 21st Century Skills
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21st Century Skills- Tools

• Information and Communication Resources and
  Capacities
• Technologies, such as Computers
• Networking and other Technologies
• Audio, Video, and Other Media and Multimedia Tools

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21st Century Skills- Content

• Global Awareness
• Use 21st century skills to understand and address
  global issues
• Collaboration with other cultures and languages
• Financial, Economic, and Business Literacy
• Understanding the role of the economy all the way
  down to personal financial choices.
• Ability to adapt with the nations economic
  environment using 21st century skills

• Civic Literacy
• Knowing how to be an informed and participatory
  citizen.
• Using 21st century skills to responsibly exercise
  rights and responsibilities at local, state,
  national and global levels.

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21st Century Skills- Context

• Make content relevant to students, lives
• Take the students out to the world
• Bring the world into the classroom
• Creating opportunities for students to interact
  with each other, with teachers and with other
  knowledgeable adults in authentic learning
  experiences

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21st Century Skills- Information Communications
Technology (ICT) Literacy

• Learning Skills 21st Century Tools
• Using 21st Century Tools to Perform Learning
  Skills

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21st Century Skills- Assessment

• We must measure both core subjects and 21st
  century skills
• Standardized tests must be balanced appropriately
  with classroom assessments to measure the full
  range of students skills
• Classroom assessment must be strengthened and
  integrated with instructional process to
  reinforce learning

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Importance of 21st Century Skills

• One Important Component of Todays Student Skill
  Set
• Economics and Work Force Success
• Student Success and Achievement

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What about ET-IL?

• Addressing is part of the maturation process
• Colorado has been ahead of the curve
• Remember ICT Literacy SkillsTools
• ET-IL is Already Positioned

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Natural Progression from Colorado Information
Literacy Standards

• Information Literacy
• ...accesses information efficiently and
  effectively.
• ...evaluates information critically and
  competently.
• ...uses information accurately and creatively.
• Independent Learning
• ...pursues information related to personal
  interests.
• ...appreciates literature and other creative
  expressions of information.
• ...strives for excellence in information seeking
  and knowledge generation.
• Social Responsibility
• ...recognizes the importance of information to a
  democratic society.
• ...practices ethical behavior in regard to
  information and information technology.
• ...participates effectively in groups to pursue
  and generate information.

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Information and Communications Technology
Literacy (ICT)

• ICT proficiency is the ability to use digital
  technology, communication tools, and /or networks
  appropriately to solve information problems in
  order to function in an information society.
• This includes the ability to use technology as a
  tool to research, organize, evaluate, and
  communicate information and the possession of a
  fundamental understanding of the ethical / legal
  issues surrounding the access and use of
  information.

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ET-IL, ICT, Technology, Information Literacy,
Other Acronyms/Terms
Technical Literacy
Digital Literacy
ICT Literacy
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So what do schools look like where students get
21st Century Knowledge and Skills?
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They dont look like this!
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The teacher doesnt have a monopoly on information
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Helpful Resources

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• http//www.21stcenturyskills.org/
• NCREL enGauge
• http//www.ncrel.org/engauge/
• The Metiri Group Cheryl Lemke
• http//www.metiri.com/
• Evolving Definition of Literacy from Annette Lamb
• http//eduscapes.com/info/evolve.html

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Helpful Resources page 2

• Innovate Journal of Online Education
• 21st Century Literacy and Technology in K-8
  Classrooms
• http//www.innovateonline.info/index.php?viewarti
  cleid17
• Teacher Leaders Network (TLN)
• Technology and 21st Century Learning Resources
• http//www.teacherleaders.org/Resources/technology
  .html
• Bob Pearlman
• Technologys Role in School Reform
• http//www.bobpearlman.org/ Go to Technology

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Helpful Resources page 3

• From the ALA
• 21st Century Literacy _at_ Your Library
• http//www.ala.org/ala/proftools/21centurylit/21st
  centuryliteracy
• Building 21st Century Skills
• http//www.ala.org/ala/pio/campaign/sponsorship/jt
  mlhome/jtml/building21st.htm
• Oakland Elementary School- Denver
• 21st Century Literacy Resources
• http//oakland.dpsk12.org/stories/storyReader100

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Helpful Resources page 4

• Converge Magazine
• Assessing ICT Literacy- Stevan Kalmon
• http//www.convergemag.com/story.php?catid231sto
  ryid94511
• Information Literacy- A Necessary Skill in the
  Information Age- Helen Mele Robinson
• http//www.convergemag.com/story.php?catid243sto
  ryid97278
• WWWTools for Teachers
• Trends in Information Literacy and ICT Skills
  Education
• http//m.fasfind.com/wwwtools/m/2435.cfm?x0rid2
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• David Warlick
• Landmarks for Schools
• http//landmark-project.com/index.php

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Helpful Resources page 5

• Apple Computer
• Digital Kids- Digital Tools for Digital Students
• http//www.apple.com/education/digitalkids/
• THE Journal
• Policymakers and 21st Century Skills
• http//www.thejournal.com/articles/16878
• Southwest Regional Educational Board (SREB)
  Evalutech
• Technology Literacy and 21st Century Skills
• http//www.evalutech.sreb.org/21stcentury/Literacy
  Skills.asp

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Helpful Resources page 6

• eSchoolNews Online
• Schools Urged to Teach 21st Century Skills
• http//www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryts.cfm?Ar
  ticleID4506
• David Thornburg
• Check out the Thornburg Center Presentations
• http//www.tcpd.org/
• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
  Development (OECD)
• Are Students Ready for a Technology Rich World?
• http//www.oecd.org/document/14/0,2340,en_2649_201
  185_36002382_1_1_1_1,00.html

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Helpful Resources page 7

• National Forum on Information Literacy
• You Want Definitions?
• http//www.infolit.org/definitions/index.html/
• Colorado Department of Education
• Educational Technology Units ET-IL Resources
• http//www.cde.state.co.us/edtech/COLINKS/
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