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Title: 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
    435
  • 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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