Preparing Every Child for the 21st Century

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Preparing Every Child for the 21st Century
Chicopee, MA August 21, 2009
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• What IS a 21st century learning skill?

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Overview

• Why are 21st Century Skills so important?
• What is the framework for 21st Century Learning?
• What can schools and teachers do?
• What does it look like in some places?
• What can you do?

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• Smaller, flatter
• Change from manufacturing to service economy
• More global competition
• Greater global cooperation
• Information explosion

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• Many jobs have become automated or outsourced
• Information explosion means knowledge work is
  the new basic skill set
• Changing employment landscape means everyone
  needs portable skills
• College ready career ready
• Ubiquity of technology

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• Motivated to learn differently
• Constantly connected, creating, and multitasking
  in a multimedia worldeverywhere except in
  school
• Use the web for
• extending friendships
• interest-driven, self-directed learning
• as a tool for self-expression

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Why havent we?
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Everyone is talking about it
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Why are 21st Century Skills so important?
The requirements of the workforce are changing
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Why are 21st Century Skills so important?

• What skills are most important for job success
  when hiring a high school graduate?

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Why are 21st Century Skills so important?

• Of the high school students that you recently
  hired, what were their deficiencies?

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Why are 21st Century Skills so important?

• What skills and content areas will be growing in
  importance in the next five years?

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New Context
Skills Required
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Why 21st Century Skills?
The U.S. is falling behind.
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Why 21st Century Skills?
Ranking of G8 countries 10th grade math
problem solving
OECD Ranking
Problem Solving
Math
Science
Reading
14th
15th
15th
18th
18th
24th
24th
2000
2000
2000
2003
2003
2003
2003
Source PISA, 2000, 2003
Courtesy of Cisco
Systems
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Why 21st Century Skills?
How many of your Parents Grandparents had only
one or two jobs in their lifetimes?
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Why 21st Century Skills?
How many jobs will a young person have today
between age 18-38?
10.2 jobs
SOURCE Number of Jobs Held, Labor Market
Activity, and Earnings Growth Among Younger Baby
Boomers Recent Results From a Longitudinal
Survey Summary, US Dept. of Labor, 2004
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Why 21st Century Skills?
20th Century
21st Century
1 2 Jobs
10 15 Jobs
Number of Jobs
Critical Thinking Across Disciplines
Mastery of One Field
Job Requirement
Integration of 21st Century Skills into Subject
Matter Mastery
Subject Matter Mastery
Teaching Model
Subject Matter Mastery
Integration of 21st Century Skills into Subject
Matter Mastery
Assessment Model
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Overview

• Why are 21st Century Skills so important?
• What is the framework for 21st Century Learning?
• What can schools and teachers do?
• What does it look like in some places?
• What can you do?

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Every Student Must Be

• A critical thinker
• A problem solver
• An innovator
• An effective communicator
• An effective collaborator
• A self-directed learner
• Information and media literate
• Globally aware
• Civically engaged
• Financially and economically literate

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20th Century Education Model
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21st Century Skills Framework
The Framework for 21st Century Learning describes
the skills, knowledge and expertise students must
master to succeed in work and life.
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21st Century Skills Framework
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21st Century Skills Framework

• Core Subjects
• Economics
• English
• Government
• Arts
• History
• Geography
• Reading or Language
• Arts
• Mathematics
• Science
• World Languages
• Civics

• 21st Century Themes
• - Global Awareness
• - Financial, Economic, Business
• Entrepreneurship Literacy
• - Civic Literacy
• - Health Literacy

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21st Century Skills Framework

• Learning Innovation Skills
• Critical Thinking Problem Solving
• Creativity Innovation
• Communication Collaboration

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21st Century Skills Framework

• Information, Media Technology Skills
• Information Literacy
• Media Literacy
• ICT (Information, Communications
• Technology) Literacy

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21st Century Skills Framework

• Life Career Skills
• Flexibility Adaptability
• Initiative Self-Direction
• Social Cross-Cultural Skills
• Productivity Accountability
• Leadership Responsibility

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Whats new about 21st Century Skills?
New Focus
New Needs
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21st Century Skills Framework
These 21st Century Skills should become the new
design specs for 21st Century education.
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21st Century Skills Represent

• the necessary student outcomes of 21st century
  learning.
• Students need to obtain
• Learning and Innovation Skills (creativity and
  innovation, critical thinking and problem
  solving, etc.),
• Information, Media and Technology Skills,
• Core Subjects and 21st century themes (global
  awareness, financial literacy, etc.), and
• Life and Career Skills (initiative and
  self-direction, among others).

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Overview

• Why are 21st Century Skills so important?
• What is the framework for 21st Century Learning?
• What can schools and teachers do?
• What does it look like in some places?
• What can you do?

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What You Can Do 4 Suggestions

• 1. Embed 21st Century Skills into core subjects.

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What You Can Do 4 Suggestions

• 2. Focus on the professional development of 21st
  Century Skills
• West Virginia/Teach 21
• P21 Paper on 21st Century Skills and Professional
  Development (Route 21)

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What You Can Do 4 Suggestions

• 3. Focus on the assessment of 21st Century
  Skills
• P21 Paper on 21st Century Skills and
  Assessment (Route 21)

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What You Can Do 4 Suggestions
4. Use Route 21. How do I learn more about 21st
century skills?

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Finding Resources
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Scholastics 21st Learning Faculty
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• to design
• Reading, Writing Thinking for the 21st Century

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Conclusion

• Are our students ready for the new global economy?

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Conclusion
Are our students critical thinkers and problem
solvers?
Are our students globally aware?
Are our students self-directed?
Are our students good at collaborating?
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Conclusion
Are our students information and technology
literate?
Are our students flexible and adaptable?
Are our students innovative?
Are our students effective communicators?
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What You Can Do 4 Suggestions

• 4. Use Route 21.

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Conclusion
These skills can become the design specs for
21st century education in your district.
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MISSION STATEMENT

• Serve as a catalyst to position 21st century
  skills at the center of U.S. K-12 education by
  building collaborative partnerships among
  education, business and community and government
  leaders.

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The Partnership is

• the nations leading advocacy organization
  focused on infusing 21st century skills into
  education.

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• www.21centuryskills.org

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P21 Members
The Partnership is unique. We fill a distinctive
and vital role as THE leading education
partnership advocating for a 21st century skills
education system. Currently there are 38
members of the Partnership for 21st Century
Skills that represent all sectors of American
society.
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P21 Members
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P21 Partner States
Current State Partners

• New Jersey
• North Carolina
• South Dakota
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin

• Arizona
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Maine
• Massachusetts

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Current Initiatives

• State Partnership Program
• Route 21 (key white papers)
• Paper on Education and U.S. Competitiveness
• Transition paper on 21st Century Skills
• National Summit on 21st Century Skills (6/09)
• Content Maps

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Contact Us
177 North Church Ave. Suite 305 Tucson, AZ
85701 [phone]
www.21stcenturyskills.org