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  MARA SmartEdu | Developing SmartEdu Plan for MRSM Training

 OBJECTIVES

•  Discuss rationale for teaching and learning 21st Century

Skills

•  Provide process for looking more closely at Iowa’s 21st

Century Skills

•  Examine 21st Century instruction

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 21ST CENTURY LEARNER . . .

•  . . . will use technologies that haven’t been invented to do jobs that

don’t exist
•  . . . networked
•  . . . multi-tasker
•  . . . digitally literate
•  . . . craves interactivity
•  . . . strong visual-spatial skills
•  . . . tethered to the internet
•  . . . wants to learn things that matter
•  . . . wants to be challenged to reach own conclusions

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 WHY 21ST CENTURY SKILLS?

Growing consensus that schools need to be accountable

for more than “basic” academics.

“Creativity is as important in education as literacy and we

should treat it with the same status.”
-Sir Ken Robinson, 2006

“The top 10 jobs for 2010 weren’t even created in 2004”

- Diana G. Oblinger, President EDUCAUSE

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 “THE GLOBAL ACHIEVEMENT GAP”

Our teens leave school equipped to work only in

the kinds of jobs that are fast disappearing from
the American economy.

Why even our best schools don’t teach the new

survival skills our children need – and what we
can do about it.
-Tony Wagner, 2008
Harvard Graduate School of Education

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 SEVEN SURVIVAL SKILLS FOR TEENS TODAY
(Global Achievement Gap, 2008 by Tony Wagner)

•  Critical thinking and problem-solving

•  Collaboration
•  Agility and adaptability
•  Initiative and entrepreneurialism
•  Effective oral and written communication
•  Accessing and analyzing information
•  Curiosity and imagination

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 “Integrating 21st century skills into teaching
and assessment, then, is not only an
economic imperative, driven by changes in
the workforce, but a vital aspect of
improving student learning.”

“Measuring Skills for the 21st Century, 2008” - Silva

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 21ST LEARNING FRAMEWORK

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Core Subject
•  English
•  Reading/Lang Arts Core  Subject  
•  World Languages and  21st  
•  Arts Century  
•  Mathematics Themes  
•  Economics
•  Science 21st Century Themes
•  Geography (21st Century Content)
•  History •  Global Awareness
•  Government •  Financial, Economic, Business
•  Civics and Entrepreneurial Literacy
•  Civic Literacy
•  Health Literacy
 Learning  and  
Innova;on  
Skills  

Learning and Innovation Skills

•  Creativity and Innovation Skills (ISTE 1)
•  Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills
(ISTE 4)

•  Communication and Collaboration Skills

(ISTE 2)
Information, Media & Informa;on,  
Technology Skills Media,  and  
Technology  
•  Information Literacy (ISTE 3) Skills  
•  Media Literacy
•  ICT Literacy (Information,
Communications, and Technology)
Life  and  
Career  
Skills  

Life and Career Skills

•  Flexibility and Adaptability
•  Initiative and Self Direction
•  Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
•  Productivity and Accountability
•  Leadership and Responsibility
 WHAT IS 21ST LEARNING SKILLS

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st
CLD  DIMENSIONS  

1.  Collabora)on  
2.  Knowledge  Construc)on  
3.  Self  Regula)on  
4.  Real  World  Problem  Solving  
5.  ICT  for  Learning  
6.  Skilful  Communica)on  
 Interdependent | shared responsibility | interdependent
Do learners have
Collaboration a shared
responsibility for
a joint outcome?

•  Definition Do they make

substantive
–  Effec)ve  collabora)on  occurs   decisions
when  learners  work  together   together?
to  achieve  results  or  
outcomes  that  are  too   Is their work
complex  to  do  on  their  own,   interdependent?
or  that  they  could  not  do  as  
well  on  their  own.
 Are learners
Knowledge

new
required to
Construction construct new

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knowledge?

build
•  Knowledge  construc)on  
Do they apply
ac)vi)es  require  students  to  

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the knowledge in
generate  ideas  and  

Interdisciplinary
a new context?
understandings  that  are  new  
to  them.  Students  can  do  this   Is that
through  interpreta)on,   knowledge
analysis,  synthesis,  or   interdependent?
evalua)on  
 Does the learning
Self activity offer

feedback
Regulation substantive time and
opportunity to develop
self-regulation

intentions |
•  Work with learners, Do learners know
the learning
guiding and empowering intentions and
success criteria in
in ways that help them advance, and plan
take increasing their work?

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Do learners use
responsibility for their feedback to

plan
own learning, both as improve their
learning?
individuals and in groups.
 Real World Does the
learning activity
Problem Solving require authentic,

share
and Innovation real-world problem
solving?

solve |
•  Real-­‐world  problems  are   Do learners
innovate to
authen)c  situa)ons  and   implement their
needs  that  exist  outside  an   ideas in the real

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world?
academic  context.  

authentic
Innova)on  requires  puOng  
students’  ideas  or  solu)ons   xxxx
into  prac)ce  in  the  real  
world.  
 Do learners use ICT
ICT for

shared
to construct
Learning knowledge in ways
that add value to
learning?

ethical |
•  Learners  use  ICT  to  design   Do learners use ICT
to create new ideas
and  create  new  knowledge,   and products for
authentic audiences
understandings,  solu)ons,  

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and users?

multimodal
ideas  or  products  for   Does their work
authen)c  audiences  and   demonstrate ethical
use and additional
users.   21C capabilities?
 authentic audience
Does the learning
Skilful activity require
Communication coherent
communication using
a range of modes?

•  Connected  and  coherent   Do learners design

and produce a

multimodal |
thought  is  evident  in  a  range   substantive,
of  communica)on  modes,   multi-modal
communication for a
whether  it  achieves  an   particular audience?
authen)c  purpose  for  a  
par)cular  audience,  and   Do learners reflect
and use the process of
whether  the  communica)on  

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learning to improve
is  substan)ve  and  mul)modal   their communications?

coherent
in  nature.  
 Classroom Focus
•  What 21st Century Skills am I addressing
in my class?
•  At what depth are they being addressed?
•  How do I know students are “getting it”?
•  How do I restructure my class and
instructional activities to increase learning
of the 21st Century Skills?

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 21st CENTURY PEDAGOGICAL FRAMEWORK

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 CONNECTING ….

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 COMMUNICATING …

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 COLLABORATING….

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 LEARNING COLLECTIVELY…

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John Dewey