21st Century Skills

1
21st Century Skills
Online Learning
Web 2.0
Classroom 2.0
ISTE Technology Standards

• Susan Gubing, CareerSmarts

2

• Areas of Expertise
• Career Planning, Work-based Learning, Advisory
  Boards, 21st Century Skills
• 38 years, School/Industry Coordinator for
  Smithtown Central School District
• Professional Development Provider for
• Buffalo State and Oswego online Work-based
  Learning Certification
• SCOPE, LI BOCES and Putnam County BOCES, Commack,
  Hauppauge, Smithtown, NYC schools, Financial
  Literacy
• Games2Careers Author
• NY State Education Consultant for CDOS Standards,
  WBL, CTE
• Board of Directors for Hauppauge Industrial
  Association, Society for Human Resource
  Management, Long Island Works Coalition, Long
  Island Business Educators, NYS Work Experience
  Association

3
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
2004
MISSION STATEMENT Serve as a catalyst to
position 21st century skills at the center of US
K-12 education by building collaborative
partnerships among education, business, community
and government leaders

• www.21stcenturyskills.org

4
21st Century Education
5
National Summit on 21st Century Skills June 12,
2009
6
(No Transcript)
7

• 21st Century Skills
• Interdisciplinary
• Integrated
• Project-based,
• and are learned within a project-based
  curriculum by
•  

• Collaboration the ability to work in teams
• Critical thinking taking on complex problems
• Oral communications presenting
• Written communications writing
• Technology use technology
• Citizenship take on civic and global issues 
  service learning
• Learn about careers through internships
• Content conduct research and do all of the
  above.

8
New Definitions
We offer the following new definitions for
School, Teacher and Learner appropriate for
the 21st century   Schools.. will go from
buildings to nerve centers, with walls that
are porous and transparent, connecting teachers,
students and the
community to the wealth of knowledge that
exists in the
world.   Teacher  From primary role as a
dispenser of information to orchestrator of
learning and helping students turn information
into knowledge, and knowledge into wisdom. 
The 21st century will require knowledge
generation, not just information delivery, and
schools will need to create a culture of
inquiry.   
9
New Definitions
Learner is   1st we must maintain student
interest by helping them see how what they are
learning prepares them for life in the real
world.    2nd we must instill curiosity, which
is fundamental to lifelong learning.    3rd we
must be flexible in how we teach.   4th we must
excite learners to become even more resourceful
so that they will continue to learn outside the
formal school day.
10
Imagine a school with students who.
11
Content Skills 21st Century Themes
12
21st Century Interdisciplinary Themes

• Promote understanding of academic content at much
  higher levels by weaving themes into core
  subjects
• Global awareness
• Financial, economic, business and
• entrepreneurial literacy
• Civic literacy
• Health literacy

13

• LIFE
• AND
• CAREER SKILLS

14
21st Century Skills Play ground

• iClubs
• associations
• alliance
• unions
• societies
• organizations
• leagues
• institutes
• circles

• iClubs
• Work-based learning
• Shadowing
• Internships
• Work Experience
• Research/competitions
• Community Service

15
College and Career Ready Life and Career
Skills Career Management - CDOS

• Career DNA Profile
• Career Plan -6th grade forward
• Career Academies
• Career Fairs
• Work-based learning
• Career and Technical Education
• 18 Required credits 3 electives
• USA Today 53 graduate college in 6 years.

16
Knowing Your Career DNA, you can choose

• High School courses
• Clubs
• Internships
• College majors
• Employment
• Military

Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social,
Enterprising, Conventional
17
Branding/AchievementEveryone wants to belong

• Department Name Change
• Business Department School of Business
• MBA Mastery of Business Achievement
• 3 credits of Business Education B or higher
• Active Participation in a Business Ed Club
• Internship
• Business Olympics Team Competition
• PhD. Personal Higher Degree
• Honorary PhD.

18
Validation of 21st Century Skills

• Project-based assignments
• Group collaborations
• Problem Solving/solutions
• finding
• Outcome based
• Resume

19
Technology

• Communication and Collaboration
• Daily
• Assessed
• Every child has a laptop
• Internet Accessible
• Learning is 24/7
• New applications bring new knowledge.
• ISTE Standards and Membership

20
1
2
21
(No Transcript)
22
Think Globally Act Nationally!
Think Globally Act Locally
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vb-16hTRTvSYfeature
related
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vh61e6LrDLnY
23
Think Globally Act Locally

• Moving forward..
• In-House
• 21st Century Skills and Curriculum Committee
• Professional Development
• Community Outreach Industry Advisory Board
• Student survey
• Business survey
• SHRM

24
KEN KAY President of the Partnership for 21st
Century Skills e-Luminate Group
25

• Professional Development Services
• Online Courses
• SCOPE 21st Century Skills, Career Management
• Buffalo State Work-based learning Certification
• Seminars/workshops
• Eastern Suffolk BOCES Catalog
• 21st Century Educator
• 21st Century Technology
• Career Planning/DNA
• Creating Advisory Boards
• Sue Gubing, CareerSmarts, sue_at_careersmarts.com