Learning

Activities
to Develop 21 st

Century Skills
Intended Learning Outcomes
 Analyze learning plans in the context
of the 21st Century Skills
“What does 21st Century Skills
mean?”
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.
List of the most commonly cited 21st
century skills.
 Critical thinking
 Communication skills
 Creativity
 Problem solving
 Perseverance
 Collaboration
 Information literacy
 Technology skills and digital literacy
 Media literacy
List of the most commonly cited 21st
century skills.
 Global awareness
 Self-direction
 Social skills
 Literacy skills
 Civic literacy
 Social responsibility
 Innovation skills
 Thinking skills
What are the four (4)
core skills for
21st Century Skills?”
Four (4) main skills – the 4Cs – that
are regarded as the core skills.
Critical Thinking
Communication
01 Skills
02 Skills

03 Collaboration Skills 04 Creativity Skills

 Four (4) main skills – the 4Cs – that
are regarded as the core skills.
Communication skills are the abilities you use when giving
and receiving different kinds of information. Some examples
include communicating new ideas, feelings or even an update
on your project. Communication skills involve listening,
speaking, observing and empathizing. It is also helpful to
understand the differences in how to communicate through
face-to-face interactions, phone conversations and digital
communications like email and social media.
 Four (4) main skills – the 4Cs – that
are regarded as the core skills.
Skills in communication are important in all areas of life.
Students must learn to articulate ideas clearly, both in oral
and written forms. They must learn to listen and to
understand the variety and depth of all ideas they come
across. Communication skills are especially important in our
modern digital and multicultural age. Barriers between
languages and across cultures and other forms of media
demand an evolution in the way we experience and deal with
contexts.
 Four (4) main skills – the
4Cs – that are regarded as
the core skills.
Critical thinking is the ability to think
clearly and rationally, understanding the
logical connection between ideas.
 Four (4) main skills – the
4Cs – that are regarded as
the core skills.
Critical thinking and problem solving skills are critical for
developing the habits of mind that most promote student success.
These skills include inductive and deductive reasoning, systems
thinking, the ability to evaluate claims, to synthesize and analyze
data, to draw conclusions based on that analysis and synthesis,
and to reflect critically on what they learn. Critical thinking
prepares students not only to solve complex problems but also to
ask critical questions which promote insight and guide inquiry.
 Four (4) main skills – the 4Cs – that are
regarded as the core skills.

Collaboration skill the learners must be able to

work co-operatively with other individuals and
makes valued contributions to the outputs of
others in order to assist own team or project to
achieve the required output.
 Four (4) main skills – the 4Cs – that are
regarded as the core skills.
The importance of collaboration has increased dramatically over
the past several years. The traditional values it instills, such as
teamwork, flexibility, respect, and accountability, remain
necessary, but that is no longer the end of the matter. Students no
longer live and work in an arena where their efforts are solely their
own. New technologies and new media are designed around
cooperative and social environments. The Internet allows
complete strangers across the world to work through the same
material at the same time, and to rely on each other. Collaboration
teaches what to trust, how to trust, and how to use contemporary
means to deal with the unknown.
 Four (4) main skills – the
4Cs – that are regarded as
the core skills.
Creative thinking is the ability to look at things
differently, and find new ways of solving
problems.
 Four (4) main skills – the
4Cs – that are regarded as
the core skills.
Creativity is the spine of innovation. The 21st century
workplace demands an adaptability of mind that requires
inventiveness as well as evaluation. Building a teaching
environment that facilitates creativity encourages students
to broaden their perspectives, to critique what they see
around them and evaluate it, and to move beyond their
preconceptions of the world and learn to shape the world
around them.
 All schools have the responsibility to produce
students that are work-ready and college-ready.
Beyond the content, students need to be fluent in
the 21st century skills that they need after
graduating from high school. Thus schools must be
deliberate in teaching these skills instead of relying
on them to acquire the skills on their own.
“What is the importance of 21st
Century Skills mean?”
 Importance of 21st Century
● Skills and business leaders cite soft skills as
Higher-education
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.
 Importance of 21st Century
● Skills
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.
 Framework for 21st Century
Skillsthe skills, knowledge, and expertise students
It describes
must master to succeed in work and life, the framework
combines content knowledge, specific skills, expertise, and
literacies. P21 (Partnership for 21st Century Skills) believes that
the "base" of 21st century learning is the acquisition of key
academic subject knowledge, and that schools must build on
that base with additional skills including Learning Skills, Life
Skills, and Literacy Skills.
 Framework for 21st Century
● Skills
Learning Skills: Also known as the "four Cs" of 21st century
learning, these include critical thinking, communication,
collaboration, and creativity.

● Life Skills: Flexibility, initiative, social skills, productivity,

leadership

● Literacy Skills: Information literacy, media literacy,

technology literacy
Activity 2: Create your own learning plans for
Technical and Livelihood Education in the area
of Information, Communication, and
Technology. Make sure to input the 4C’s of 21st
Century Skills.