The 21st Century World

The 21 Century World

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“Make or break century”

-James Martin
The 21 Century Culture
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• Shrewd – having or showing awareness or

resourcefulness, especially in practical
matters.
• Triage – a process in which things are ranked
in terms of priority.
• Shrewd Triage – having a clever awareness
and sharp intelligence in identifying which
needs much attention.
Global Warming
Population Growth
Water Shortages
Destruction of Life in the Oceans
Violence
Global Migrations
Terrorism
Poverty
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21 Century Skills (Siemens, 2006)
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• Anchoring – staying focused on important tasks while undergoing a

deluge of distractions.
• Filtering – managing knowledge flow and extracting important
elements.
• Connecting with each other – building networks in order to
continue to stay current and informed.
• Being Human together – interacting at a human, not only
utilitarian, level to form social spaces.
• Creating and deriving meaning – understanding implications,
comprehending meaning and impact.
• Evaluation and authentication – determining the value of
knowledge and ensuring authenticity.
21 Century Skills (Siemens, 2006)
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• Altered processes of validation – validating people and ideas within

appropriate context.
• Critical and creative thinking – employing standards of thinking,
knowing the box before going outside the box.
• Pattern recognition – decision-making process in defining a problem.
• Navigation of the knowledge landscape – navigating between
repositories, people, technology, and ideas while achieving intended
purposes.
• Acceptance of uncertainty – balancing what is known within the
unknown to see how existing knowledge relates to what we do not
know
• Contextualizing – careful consideration of the sitaution.
The 21st Century Skills (Intel Education)
• Critical Thinking - the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to
form a judgment.
• Creative Thinking - A way of looking at problems or situations from a fresh
perspective that suggests unorthodox solutions (which may look unsettling at
first). Creative thinking can be stimulated both by an unstructured process
such as brainstorming, and by a structured process such as lateral thinking.
• Collaborating - work jointly on an activity, especially to produce or create
something.
• Communicating - impart or pass on (information, news, or ideas).
• Information Literacy - the hyper ability to know when there is a need for
information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that
information for the issue or problem at hand.
• Media Literacy - encompasses the practices that allow people to access,
critically evaluate, and create media.
The 21st Century Skills (Intel Education)
• Technology Literacy - the ability of an individual, working independently
and with others, to responsibly, appropriately and effectively use
technology tools to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create and
communicate information.
• Flexibility - willingness to change or compromise.
• Initiative - the ability to assess and initiate things independently.
• Social Skills - any competence facilitating interaction and
communication with others where social rules and relations are
created, communicated, and changed in verbal and nonverbal ways.
• Productivity - the effectiveness of productive effort, especially in
industry, as measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input.
• Leadership - the action of leading a group of people or an organization.