THE 21 CENTURY ST

LEARNERS
21st century skills
• identify the 21st century skills
• discover how to equipped with the 21st century skills
• value and apply 21st century skills

OBJECTIVES
 Coping with the demands of the digital society, we the digital native learners
need additional skills to react to the challenges of the 21st century. Siemens
(2006, cited in Brockbank ang McGill 2007) listed the following skills:

THE 21ST CENTURY SKILLS: SKILLS

FOR THE 21ST CENTURY CHALLENGES
 1. Anchoring – staying focused on important tasks while undergoing a
deluge of distractions.
 2. Filtering – managing knowledge flow and extracting important
elements.
 3. Connecting with each other – building networks in order to continue
to stay current and informed.

THE 21ST CENTURY SKILLS

 4. Being human together – interacting at a human, not only utilitarian,
level to form social spaces.
 5. Creating and Deriving meaning – understanding implications,
comprehending meaning and impact.
 6. Evaluation and authentication – determining the value of knowledge
and ensuring authenticity

THE 21ST CENTURY SKILLS

 7. Altered processes of validation – validating people and ideas within
appropriate context.
 8. Critical and creative thinking- employing standards of thinking,
knowing the box before going outside the box.
 9. Pattern recognition- decision-making process in defining a problem.

THE 21ST CENTURY SKILLS

 10. Navigation of the knowledge landscape- navigating between
repositories, people, technology, and ideas while achieving intended purposes.
 11. Acceptance of uncertainty – balancing what is known with the
unknown to see how existing knowledge relates to what we do not know.
 12. Contextualizing – careful consideration of the situation.

THE 21ST CENTURY SKILLS

 Mastery of the aforementioned skills ensures the certainty and correctness of
our response to a given situation.
 The composition of 21st century skills has also been summarized by Trilling
and Fadel (2009) using the following formula:
 3Rs x Cs = 21st Century learning
 The more traditionally established skills is the 3Rs: Reading, Writing, and
Arithmetic, which is the first key component.
 The second key component, the &Cs, stands for Critical Thinking and
problem solving; Communication, information and media literacy;
Collaboration, teamwork, and leadership; Creativity and innovation; Career
and learning self-reliance; Cross-cultural understanding; and Computer and
ICT literacy.
 The 21st century skills are a set of abilities that
students need to develop in order to succeed in
the information Age.
 1. Learning Skills
 • Critical Thinking
 • Creative Thinking
 • Collaborating
 • Communicating

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE SKILLS

ACCORDING TO THREE TYPES:
 2. Literacy Skills
 • Information literacy
 • Media literacy
 • Technology literacy

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE SKILLS

ACCORDING TO THREE TYPES:
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3 . Life Skills
 • Flexibility
 • Initiative
 • Social Skills
 • Productivity
 • Leadership

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE SKILLS

ACCORDING TO THREE TYPES
 Why 21st Century Children Need to Excel at Problem- Solving
Samuel Greiff and Jonas Muller
 Brain in Gear
 Outside the Box

GRADED RECITATION
 Proverbs 18:15
 An intelligent heart requires
knowledge, and the ear of the
wise seeks knowledge.

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