21st Century Skills
UCCSMarch 8, 2013Nancy White,
21st Century Learning & Innovation SpecialistAcademy School District 20
uccs21stcenturyskills.wikispaces.com
Resource Wiki
Objectives
• Understand why 21st century skills are important in today’s classrooms
• Understand 21st century skills are not an “add on” – they are a re-design of the learning environment and practice
• Transfer: Use backwards design to create a 21st century learning scenario
Why 21st Century Learning?
• Clickers– Turn on– After you click your response, click “send”
Changing World
Levy and Murnane. (2004, October). “Education and the Changing Job Market”Educational Leadership. Shared at http://www.doug-johnson.comDoug Johnson: “Skills for the Knowledge Worker.” “Permission to use these materials for non-profit purpose freely given so long as this notice appears.”
Trends in Tasks Done by the US Workforce 1969-1998
Complex Communication
Expert Thinking
Routine Cognitive Work
Routine Manual Work
Partnership for 21st Century Skills. (2008) 21st Century Skills, Education & Competitiveness: A Resource and Policy Guide. Available http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/documents/21st_century_skills_education_and_competitiveness_guide.pdf
Colorado Dept. of Education: Educational Technology, Office of Learning & Results
Strategies
Vision – Learning Goal How will you know that they know it/can do
it? ◦ Performance Task◦ Requires Transfer
Working backwards
AKnowledge in one discipline
BApply
knowledge in one discipline
CApply
knowledge across
disciplines
DApply
knowledge to real world
predictable situations
EApply
knowledge to real world
unpredictable situations
Evaluation
Synthesis
Analysis
Application
Comprehension
Knowledge
A B
C D
Acquisition Application
Assimilation Adaptation
Know
ledge
Application©International Center for Leadership in Education
GRASPS
• Goal• Role• Audience• Situation• Product Performance & Purpose• Standards and Criteria for Success
Colorado’s 21st Century Skills
Critical Thinking
• Example: QFT
The QFT
Invention
Examples: Lego Serious Play & Digital Storytelling
Information Literacy
Skills Developed in Curating
Collaboration
Academy District 20 Model
Bottom line…
• To learn collaboration,– Students must work in teams
• To learn critical thinking,– Students must take on complex, real world
problems• To learn creativity,
– Students must have opportunity to create original and useful works
Bottom line…
• To learn self-direction,– Students must have a chance
to work independently & without scaffolding• To learn information literacy,
– Students must have opportunities to practice searching for information at the point of need and taught to curate
Design learning that allows room for students to
• Collaborate• Critically Think• Create• Practice information literacy• Be self-directed
Assignment
Use backwards design to create a 21st century learning scenario
