Technology for

Teaching and Learning 2

21st Century ICT Skills

 21st century skills refer to the knowledge, life
skills, career skills, habits, and traits that are critically
important to student success in today’s world, particularly
as students move on to college, the workforce, and adult
life.
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TEACHING IN THE 21ST CENTURY

The Importance of 21st Century Skills

• Higher-education and business leaders cite soft skills as being the most
important driver of success in higher-level courses and in the workplace.

• In today’s world, our schools are preparing students for jobs that might not
yet exist. Career readiness means equipping students with a nuanced set of
skills that can prepare them for the unknown.

• Social media has changed human interaction and created new challenges
in navigating social situations.

• The age of the Internet has dramatically increased access to knowledge.

Students need to learn how to process and analyze large amounts of
information.

• Content knowledge from core subjects can only go so far; students need to
be taught how to apply facts and ideas towards complex problems.
• Basic Digital Fluency Skills
• Basic Digital Fluency Skills

Solution
Fluency

Digital Information
Ethics Fluency

DIGITAL LEARNERS

Collabora-
Creativity
tion
Fluency
Fluency

Media
Fluency
• Basic Digital Fluency Skills

Solution • Refers to the capacity and creativity

Fluency in problem solving

• Involves 3 subsets of skills: ability to

Information
Fluency
access info, ability to retrieve info,
and ability to reflect on

Collabora-
• Refers to teamwork with virtual or
tion real partners in the online
Fluency
environment
• Basic Digital Fluency Skills
• Evaluate the message in a chosen
Media
Fluency media, as well as a creative ability to
publish digital messages

Creativity
• Artistic proficiency, refers to font,
Fluency color, patterns and layout

• Principles of leadership, global

Digital responsibility, environmental
Ethics
awareness, global citizenship, and
personal accountability
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