1. 21 st Century Skills UCCS March 8, 2013 Nancy White, 21 st Century Learning & Innovation Specialist Academy School District 20

2. uccs21stcenturyskills.wikispaces.com Resource Wiki

3. Objectives Understand why 21 st century skills are important in today’s classrooms Understand 21 st 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 21 st century learning scenario

4. Why 21 st Century Learning? Clickers – Turn on – After you click your response, click “send”

5. Changing World

7. Complex Communication Expert Thinking Routine Cognitive Work Routine Manual Work

8. Partnership for 21 st Century Skills. (2008) 21 st Century Skills, Education & Competitiveness: A Resource and Policy Guide. Available http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/documents/21st_century_skills_education_a nd_competitiveness_guide.pdf http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/documents/21st_century_skills_education_a nd_competitiveness_guide.pdf

9. Colorado Dept. of Education: Educational Technology, Office of Learning & Results

11. Strategies

12.  Vision – Learning Goal  How will you know that they know it/can do it? ◦ Performance Task ◦ Requires Transfer

13. A Knowledge in one discipline B Apply knowledge in one discipline C Apply knowledge across disciplines D Apply knowledge to real world predictable situations E Apply knowledge to real world unpredictable situations EvaluationSynthesis Analysis Application Comprehension Knowledge AcquisitionApplication AssimilationAdaptation Knowledge Application ©International Center for Leadership in Education

14. GRASPS Goal Role Audience Situation Product Performance & Purpose Standards and Criteria for Success

15. Colorado’s 21 st Century Skills

16. Critical Thinking Example: QFT The QFT

17. Invention Examples: Lego Serious Play & Digital Storytelling Digital Storytelling

18. Information Literacy

19. Skills Developed in Curating

20. Curating Tools

21. Collaboration

22. Self Direction

24. Academy District 20 Model

25. 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

26. 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

27. Design learning that allows room for students to Collaborate Critically Think Create Practice information literacy Be self-directed

28. Assignment Use backwards design to create a 21 st century learning scenario