Unit 4.

21st CENTURY SKILLS ROXAN A.

CONSOLACION
CATEGORIES DTTE FACULTY
What Are 21st Century Skills?

21st Century skills are 12 abilities

that today’s students need to
succeed in their careers during the
Information Age.
What Are 21st Century Skills?

refers to a broad set of

knowledge, skills, work habits, and
character traits that are deemed
necessary in coping with today's
world and future careers and
workplaces. Thus, it can be applied in
all academic subject areas and
educational settings throughout a
student’s life.
Characteristics of a 21st century Teacher
1. Multi-literate
- teacher know how to use various technologies in teaching.

1. Multi-specialist
-teachers not only an expert of the subject but also in
other areas so that they can help learner build up what
they gain in the classroom and outside the school and
make sense of what they learned.

2. Multi-skilled
- teachers must cope with the demand for widening learning
opportunities by being skillful not just in teaching but also in
facilitating and organizing group activities.
4. Self-directed
- teachers are responsible for various aspects of school
life and know how to initiate action to realize the
learning goals of the student and the educational
goals of the country at large.

5. Life Long learner.

- Teachers embrace the ideal that learning never ends

6. Flexible.
- Teachers are able to adapt to various learning styles
and needs of the learner with flexibility using
alternative modes of delivery.
7. Creative problem solver
- Teachers create innovative ideas and effective solutions
to the arising problems in the field.

8. Critical thinker
- encourages the students to reflect on what they have
learned, and establish their own knowledge and belief.

9. Has a passion for excellent teaching.

- passion to the profession to ensure that students are
motivated to learn under their guidance and care.

10. High Emotional Quotient (EQ)

- do not have the head but also the heart.
 FRAMEWORK FOR 21ST CENTURY

presents a holistic view of 21st

century teaching and learning that
combines a discrete focus on 21st
century student outcomes (a
blending of specific skills, content
knowledge, expertise and
literacies) with innovative support
systems to help students master
the multi-dimensional abilities
required of them in the 21st
century and beyond (Source).
The Three 21st Century
Skill Categories

Each 21st Century skill is broken

into one of three categories:
• Learning skills
• Literacy skills
• 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.
 Category 1. Learning and Innovation Skills
(The Four C’s)

The 4Cs
• Critical thinking: Finding solutions to problems
• Creativity: Thinking outside the box —are the basic skills all
• Collaboration: Working with others students need in the 21st
• Communication: Talking to others century (National
Education Association,
2014).
Collaboration: Why is it important?
• Globalization and technology have made work environments more
team-oriented
• Teamwork enables people to build on each other’s ideas and prior
knowledge
• Collaboration embraces and promotes diversity
• High functioning teams can work faster and more efficiently than
individuals
• Results in better problem-solving and superior solutions
How do you define collaboration?

• Collaboration occurs
when two or more people
work together to
accomplish a shared,
common goal.
To build good collaboration skills, students must
learn to:
• Demonstrate the ability to work
effectively and respectfully with diverse
teams
• Exercise flexibility and willingness to be
helpful in making necessary compromises
to accomplish a common goal
• Assume shared responsibility for
collaborative work, and value the
individual contributions made by each
team member
What makes communication effective?
• Clarity
• Coherence
• Conciseness
• Purposeful
• The message must be
received and understood
Communication in the Digital Age
• Students need to make connections between their
recreational writing and the writing skills they need to
become successful beyond the classroom.
• Students must be able to effectively analyze and process
the overwhelming amount of communication in their lives.
• Which information sources are accurate and reliable?
Which ones are not?
• How can they be used or effectively?
• The power of modern media and the ubiquity of
communication technologies in all aspects of life make
teaching strong communication skills even more
important.
To build strong communication skills, students need
to:
• Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using
oral, written and nonverbal communication
skills in a variety of forms and contexts
• Listen effectively to decipher meaning,
including knowledge, values, attitudes and
intentions
• Use communication for a range of purposes
(e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate and persuade)
• Utilize multiple media and technologies, and
know how to judge their effectiveness a priori
as well as assess their impact
• Communicate effectively in diverse
environments (including multi- lingual)
Creativity: What is Creativity?
• Producing something which did
not exist before, such as a
product, a process, a theory,
artwork, or solution.
• Developing new, unique, diverse
and useful ideas.
• Thinking about and looking at
things from a different
perspective.
Understanding
Creativity
Creativity can be fostered in everyone
Creativity seen as a confluence of
• Cognitive abilities / domain-related knowledge
• Personal qualities
• Environmental influences
• Creativity is enhanced by the ability to make connections between ideas.
Creativity in the Classroom: Fostering Creative
Thinking
• Offer challenging tasks
• Encourage risk-taking
• Tolerate ambiguity
• Provide ample response time
• Model and encourage flexibility
• Foster growth mindsets
• Allow student choice
• Accept children for who they are
To become creative, students must learn to:
1. Think Creatively
2. Use a wide range of idea creation techniques (such as brainstorming)
3. Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts)
4. Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve
and maximize creative efforts
5. Work Creatively with Others
6. Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others effectively
7. Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives; incorporate
group input and feedback into the work
8. Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real
world limits to adopting new ideas
9. View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and
innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent
mistakes
10. Implement Innovations
11. Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field
in which the innovation will occur
What is Critical Thinking?
• Investigating issues that are not
always clearly defined and have no
clear-cut answers by asking
significant questions and exploring
different solutions.
• Evaluating ideas and adding value
to them by identifying the most
reasonable ones or ones most likely
to succeed.
Critical Thinking in the Classroom
Learning critical thinking
helps students develop
other skills such as:
• higher level of
concentration
• deeper analytical abilities
• improved thought
processing
To become critical thinkers,
students need to learn to:
• Reason Effectively
• Use various types of reasoning
(inductive, deductive, etc.) as
appropriate to the situation
• Use Systems Thinking
• Analyze how parts of a whole
interact with each other to produce
overall outcomes in complex
systems
To become critical thinkers,
students need to learn to:
• Make Judgments and Decisions
• Effectively analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments, claims and beliefs
• Analyze and evaluate major alternative points of view
• Synthesize and make connections between information and arguments
• Interpret information and draw conclusions based on the best analysis
• Reflect critically on learning experiences and processes
• Solve Problems
• Solve different kinds of non- familiar problems in both conventional and innovative
ways
• Identify and ask significant questions that clarify various points of view and lead to
better solutions
 Category 2. Literacy Skills (IMT)
• The three 21st Century literacy skills are:
• Information literacy: Understanding facts, figures, statistics,
and data
• Media literacy: Understanding the methods and outlets in
which information is published
• Technology literacy: Understanding the machines that make
the Information Age possible
“Information literacy is the 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.
• In an age of chronic misinformation, finding
truth online has become a job all on its own.
It’s crucial that students can identify honesty
on their own.
• Otherwise, they can fall prey to myths,
misconceptions, and outright lies.
“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.
Last, technology literacy goes another step further to teach
students about the machines involved in the Information Age.

• As computers, cloud programming, and mobile

devices become more important to the world, the
world needs more people to understand those
concepts.
• Technology literacy gives students the basic
information they need to understand what gadgets
perform what tasks and why.
• 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)

The five 21st Century life skills are:

✔ Flexibility: Deviating from plans as needed
✔ Leadership: Motivating a team to accomplish
a goal
✔ Initiative: Starting projects, strategies, and
plans on one’s own
✔ Productivity: Maintaining efficiency in an age
of distractions
✔ Social skills: Meeting and networking with
others for mutual benefit
This is one of the most challenging qualities to learn for
students because it’s based on two uncomfortable ideas:
• Your way isn’t always the best way
• You have to know and admit when you’re wrong
Flexibility requires them to show humility and accept
that they’ll always have a lot to learn — even when
they’re experienced.
Still, 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.

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

changing circumstances.
 Entry-level workers need leadership skills for several
reasons.
• The most important is that it helps them understand
the decisions that managers and business leaders
make.
• Then, those entry-level employees can apply their
leadership skills when they’re promoted to middle
management (or the equivalent). This is where 21st
Century skill learners can apply the previous skills
they’ve learned.
• It’s also where they get the real-world experience they
need to lead entire companies.
• As they lead individual departments, they can learn the
ins and outs of their specific careers. That gives
ambitious students the expertise they need to grow
professionally and lead whole corporations.

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

the steps required, and achieving those goals collaboratively.
• 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.
• Regardless, initiative is an attribute that earns
rewards. It’s especially indicative of someone’s
character in terms of work ethic and
professional progress.
• That goes double when initiative is practiced
with qualities like flexibility and leadership.

True success also requires initiative, requiring students

to be self-starters.
• In business terms, it’s called “efficiency.”
• The common goal of any professional — from entry-
level employee to CEO — is to get more done in less
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.

Students to learn about productivity. That’s a student’s ability to

complete work in an appropriate amount of time.
 Proper social skills are excellent tools for forging
long-lasting relationships.
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. Some are more socially adept than others. Some
are far behind their peers. And some lucky few may be
far ahead, as socializing comes naturally to them.
social skills at least.
• Etiquette,
• manners,
• politeness, and
• small talk still play major roles in today’s world.
That means some students need to learn them in an
educational setting instead of a social setting.
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.
classification scheme

The Cognitive Domain

The Intrapersonal Domain
The Interpersonal Domain
classification scheme
The Cognitive Domain
- includes three clusters of competencies:
cognitive processes and strategies;
knowledge; and creativity. These
clusters include competencies such as
critical thinking, information literacy,
reasoning and argumentation, and
innovation.
- The cognitive domain involves
knowledge and the development of
intellectual skills (Bloom, 1956).
classification scheme
The Intrapersonal Domain
- includes three clusters of competencies:
intellectual openness; work ethic and
conscientiousness; and positive core
self-evaluation.

- These clusters include competencies

such as flexibility, initiative,
appreciation for diversity, and
metacognition (the ability to reflect on
one’s own learning and make
adjustments accordingly).
classification scheme

The Interpersonal Domain

- includes two clusters of competencies:
teamwork and collaboration; and leadership.
These clusters include competencies such as
communication, collaboration, responsibility,
and conflict resolution.
References
• Teaching the 4Cs with Technology
• http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/sf116038/chapters/Building
-21st-Century-Skills-Through-Technology.aspx

• 21st Century Skills The 4C’s

• https://slideplayer.com/slide/14544051/#.YCkMdrdUzY8.gmail
• What Are 21st Century Skills? By: Bri Stauffer on March 19th, 2020
• https://www.aeseducation.com/blog/what-are-21st-century-skills