***Good afternoon!

***Before we start, may I request Ms. Glennete to please lead the opening prayer?

**Once again, good afternoon, everyone! I am Katherine Peachie N. Santiago, from

BSED IV – Mathematics. And I will be your learning facilitator for today.

**Last time we have tackled about ---

**Now, as we moved on to our next topic. I have here 8 circles of different colors. I
would like to ask each of you to select one color and type your selected color on the
chat box. Each circle has a picture and what you are going to do is to identify what the
picture signifies or what do you think the picture is all about.

**Has everybody chosen their colors?

**Okay! Let us now begin!

**Let’s start with the color red (will call the student)

**(will continue calling up to color white)

**Okay! From the given words, what do you think is our topic for today?

S: ICT Utilization in Developing 21st Century Skills

**So, our topic for today is ICT Utilization in Developing 21 st Century Skills specifically
Collaboration and Communication Skills.

**I have here a video for us to better understand what are the 21 st Century Skills all
about. Kindly watch the video and you may also jot down important notes.

**(will play the video)

**Did you learn something from the video?

**Based from the video, how will you define 21 st Century Skills? -Jerick.

21st Century skills are 12 abilities that today’s students need to succeed in their careers
during the Information Age. These skills are intended to help students keep up with the
lightning-pace of today’s modern markets. Each skill is unique in how it helps students,
but they all have one quality in common. They’re essential in the age of the Internet.

The Three 21st Century Skill Categories

**What are the 3 categories of the 21st Century Skills? -Naiza

**Learning skills are also called 4 C’s which are? – Arriane

**Literacy Skills or IMT are what skills? -Yes, Menard

**And the last one, Life skills or what is called FLIPS stands for? -Maricris

Each 21st Century skill is broken into one of three categories:

1. Learning skills
2. Literacy skills
3. Life skills

Learning skills (the four C’s) teaches students about the mental processes required to
adapt and improve upon a modern work environment.

Literacy skills (IMT) focuses on how students can discern facts, publishing outlets, and
the technology behind them. There’s a strong focus on determining trustworthy sources
and factual information to separate it from the misinformation that floods the Internet.

Life skills (FLIPS) take a look at intangible elements of a student’s everyday life. These
intangibles focus on both personal and professional qualities.

Altogether, these categories cover all 12 21st Century skills that contribute to a
student’s future career.

Category 1. Learning Skills (The Four C’s)

The four C’s are by far the most popular 21st Century skills. These skills are also
called learning skills.

More educators know about these skills because they’re universal needs for any career.
They also vary in terms of importance, depending on an individual’s career aspirations.
The 4 C’s of 21st Century Skills are:

 Critical thinking: Finding solutions to problems

 Creativity: Thinking outside the box
 Collaboration: Working with others
 Communication: Talking to others

Category 2. Literacy Skills (IMT)

Literacy skills are the next category of 21st Century skills.

They’re sometimes called IMT skills, and they’re each concerned with a different
element in digital comprehension.

The three 21st Century literacy skills are:

 Information literacy: Understanding facts, figures, statistics, and data

 Information literacy is a foundational skill. It helps students understand
facts, especially data points, that they’ll encounter online. More importantly, it
teaches them how to separate fact from fiction.

 Media literacy: Understanding the methods and outlets in which information is

published

Media literacy is the practice of identifying publishing methods, outlets,

and sources while distinguishing between the ones that are credible and the
ones that aren’t. Just like the previous skill, media literacy is helpful for finding
truth in a world that’s saturated with information. This is how students find
trustworthy sources of information in their lives. Without it, anything
that looks credible becomes credible. But with it, they can learn which media
outlets or formats to ignore. They also learn which ones to embrace, which is
equally important.

 Technology literacy: Understanding the machines that make the Information Age
possible

Last, technology literacy goes another step further to teach students

about the machines involved in the Information Age. Technology literacy gives
students the basic information they need to understand what gadgets perform
what tasks and why. This understanding removes the intimidating feeling that
technology tends to have. After all, if you don’t understand how the technology
works, it might as well be magic. But technology literacy unmasks the high-
powered tools that run today’s world. As a result, students can adapt to the world
more effectively. They can play an important role in its evolution.

Category 3. Life Skills (FLIPS)

Life skills is the final category.  Also called FLIPS, these skills all pertain to someone’s
personal life, but they also bleed into professional settings.

The five 21st Century life skills are:

 Flexibility: Deviating from plans as needed

Flexibility is the expression of someone’s ability to adapt to changing

circumstances. Flexibility is crucial to a student’s long-term success in a career.
Knowing when to change, how to change, and how to react to change is a skill
that’ll pay dividends for someone’s entire life.

 Leadership: Motivating a team to accomplish a goal

Leadership is someone’s penchant for setting goals, walking a team

through the steps required, and achieving those goals collaboratively.

 Initiative: Starting projects, strategies, and plans on one’s own

True success also requires initiative, requiring students to be self-

starters. Initiative only comes naturally to a handful of people. As a result,
students need to learn it to fully succeed. This is one of the hardest skills to learn
and practice. Initiative often means working on projects outside of regular
working hours.

 Productivity: Maintaining efficiency in an age of distractions

Along with initiative, 21st Century skills require students to learn

about productivity. That’s a student’s ability to complete work in an appropriate
amount of time. By understanding productivity strategies at every level, students
discover the ways in which they work best while gaining an appreciation for
how others work as well. That equips them with the practical means to carry out
the ideas they determine through flexibility, leadership, and initiative.

 Social skills: Meeting and networking with others for mutual benefit

Still, there’s one last skill that ties all other 21st Century skills together.
Social skills are crucial to the ongoing success of a professional. Business is
frequently done through the connections one person makes with others around
them. This concept of networking is more active in some industries than others,
but proper social skills are excellent tools for forging long-lasting relationships.
While these may have been implied in past generations, the rise of social media
 and instant communications have changed the nature of human interaction. As a
result, today’s students possess a wide range of social skills.

How does ICT utilization develop collaboration and communication skills in

Mathematics? Or what is the role of ICT in developing collaboration and communication
skills?
Collaboration skills can be defined as the interpersonal and intrapersonal qualities and competencies we
leverage to collectively solve a problem or make progress toward a common goal. 

Collaboration skills are the skills you use when working with others to produce or create something or
achieve a common goal. Collaboration skills aren’t a skill set in themselves, but rather a group of
different soft skills and behaviours that facilitate collaboration and teamwork.
 
Good collaboration goes well beyond working well together. Some good collaborative skills aren’t about
working with others directly, but can be indirect like productivity, adaptability, and organization. Others
are focused on direct, face-to-face contact with others like emotional intelligence, communication, and
open-mindedness.
Collaboration improves the way your team works together and problem solves. This leads to more
innovation, efficient processes, increased success, and improved communication.

Being able to communicate effectively is one of the most important life skills to learn. Communication
itself is defined as transferring information to produce greater understanding.

It can be done vocally (through verbal exchanges), through written media (books, websites, and
magazines), visually (using graphs, charts, and maps), or non-verbally (body language, gestures, pitch of
voice, and tone). All of these means of communication skills are essential Soft Skills that are vital for a
successful Career.

Information and communication technologies (ICT) is defined as a diverse set of technological tools and
resources used to transmit, store, create, share or exchange information. These technological tools and
resources include computers, the Internet (websites, blogs and emails), live broadcasting technologies
(radio, television and webcasting), recorded broadcasting technologies (podcasting, audio and video
players, and storage devices) and telephony (fixed or mobile, satellite, visio/video-conferencing, etc.).

Students can use ICT as a tool to perform calculations, draw graphs, and help solve problems by the use
of a calculator or something like that to perform more challenging computations.

Spreadsheets, computer algebra systems, or graphical calculators can be used to solve problems by tests
and improvement or retrieval methods. š Students of mathematics can use graphical calculators or
graph plotters instead of algebra to graphically solve an equation. š Students can perform a statistical
analysis of the data they collect using the extensive statistical features of the graphical calculator.

Students can perform a statistical analysis of the data they collect using the extensive statistical features
of the graphical calculator.
Students of mathematics can use graphical calculators or graph plotters instead of algebra to graphically
solve an equation.

Technology makes collaboration more effective. Student and teachers can access information at any
time. 

ICT provides the learners an opportunity to develop creativity, communication skills and other thinking
skills. 

**On the otherhand, Modern technology has introduced new skill-building methods like

 Playing interactive math games

 Puzzles, games, quizzes, worksheets

 online graphing calculator

 fantasy-based math game

 Textual descriptions

 Video lectures

 Multimedia simulations

 Photo galleries

 Practical experiments

 Flash cards

**Continue discussing the tools and sites. Access some sites on your computer.

**Please open the link that I have sent in the chatbox. From our discussion, I want you to give a word, or
group of words on your insights on how ICT utilization develops collaboration and communication skills.