Prof Ed 323
Building and Enhancing New Literacies
Across the Curriculum
Module 2. 21st Century Skill Categories
Lesson 1. The 21st Century Skills
Learning Outcomes:
1. Identify the categories of 21st Century skills.
2. Apply the 21st Century skills in preparing, planning and delivering a lesson.
3. Cite ways on how to enhance the 21st Century skills of learners.
Overview :
21st Century skills refer to a broad set of knowledge, 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.
The 21st Century Skills concept is grounded on the belief that students must be educated in a more relevant, useful, in-demand
and universally applicable manner. The idea simply lies in the fact that students need to be taught different skills and reflect on the specific
demands that will be placed upon them in a complex, competitive, knowledge-based, information-age and technology-driven society.
Therefore, 21st Century education addresses the whole child or the whole person (AACTE,2010).
Ky Concepts
According to the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, this concept encompasses a wide
array of a body of knowledge and skills that have to be categorized. Moreover, this concept
has been interconnected with applied skills, cross-curricular skills, cross-discipline skills,
interdisciplinary skills, transferable skills, transversal skills, noncognitive skills and soft
skills.
Hence, the curriculum should be designed to be interdisciplinary, integrated and
project based. Tony Wagner (2010), in his book “the Global Achievement Gap”, advocated
the seven survival skills namely,
1. Critical thinking and problem-solving;
2. Collaboration across networks and leading by influence;
3. Agility and adaptability;
4. Initiative and entrepreneurialism;
5. Effective oral and written communication;
6. Accessing and analyzing information; and
7. Curiosity and imagination.
Content
Activity Resources
Focus
Do this by group: Group Mapping
1. Group yourselves into 5 groups divide equally so that
each group have almost equal number of members.
2. Provide each group a topic on 21st Century skill
category to brainstorm about.
3. The group will synthesize their consolidated ideas and
present in a form of illustration or drawing in a cartolina
or Manila paper using any medium of their choice.
4. Each group will be given a chance to present the
synthesis in a class.
ENGAGE 5. The class will find time for a brief reflection of the Online Library
activity.
Topics for;
1. Life and Career skills
2. Information, Media and technology Skills
3. Learning and Innovation Skills
4. Social and Cross-cultural Skills
5. Leadership and Productivity Skills
1. Learning and Innovation Skills
These are the primary skill orchestrated in the
21st [Link] are attributes that differentiate
students who are prepared for a complex life and
work environment from those who are not..
Therefore, there is a need to stress on creativity,
critical thinking, communication and collaboration in
preparing learners for the future.
[Link]
alancecareers.c
EXPLORE Search the following ; (include main skill and sub-
om
skills use the table below)
(Partnership for
A. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills
21st Century
B. Communication Skills
Skills,2006 &
C. Collaboration Skills
2008)
Skill Sub-skills
2. Information, Media and Technology Skills
(include main skill and sub-skills use the table
above)
A. Information Literacy
B. Media Literacy (Partnership for
C. Technology Literacy 21st Century
D. Life and Career Skills Skills, 2006 and
2008)
3. Flexibility and Adaptability (use table above)
4. Initiative and Self-Direction (use same table)
5. Social and Cross-cultural Skills (same table)
6. Productivity and Accountability (same table)
7. Leadership and Responsibility (same table)
Explain: How can the attainment of 21st Century skill Books on
EXPLAIN contribute to the realization of educational goals? Literacy Across
the curriculum
Refer to
([Link]
ELABORA Instruction:Write your own concept of 21st Century [Link]/res
TE Skills in each of the ladder depicting the category of ources/what-
skills. The below of it write your explanation to indicate are-21st-
your understanding. century-skills
Refer to the
[Link] relevant life lessons and significant values from
book;
the experience in practicing 21st Century education
Title: Exploring
2. Analyze research abstract on 21st Century education
EVALUAT 21st Century
and its implications on teaching-learning process
E Skills and
Learning
3. Prepare an evaluation instrument intended for 21st
Environments
Century teaching-learning.
for middle
school youth by:
Ball,Joyce &
Anderson-
Butcher(20)
Learning Materials:
1. (Building and Enhancing New Literacies Across the Curriculum by Dr. De
Leon)
2. Exploring 21st Century Skills and Learning Environments for middle school
youth by: Ball,Joyce & Anderson,Butcher(2016)
Feedback: Required concepts needs response.
Official paper: Yellow pages
Reminders: All submission will be in the Google classroom. Always observe the
mandated Health Protocol.
