6.1 Need for 21^st Century Skills
1 O1 Operating Instructions 1. Organization 2-Background 1. All children can learn 2. Not all learn in same way 3. Diagnostic and prescriptive 4. Solutions which reach› +› teach students 5. Staff development 3-Getting Started 1. Classroom 2. Students 3. Curriculum 4. Coop learning 5. Evaluation 4-L=TBC: The Formula 1. Basis 2. Whole class 3. Continuum 5-L=TBC: Models 1. Generic 2. Canada 3. Belize 4. Spanish Exploration 5. Westward Movement 6. The Middle Ages 7. Role of Intern 8. Prep for› field Preservice ››6-Meeting Student Needs 1. Need for 21st Cent.Skills 2. 21st Cent.Skills + Curr 3. Assessment 4. Matching Resources to Student Need 5. Alt. Assessment: Tools and Pedagogy 7-Problems 1. Classroom management 2. Lack of focus 3. Unwillingness 8-Solutions 1. Getting Re-Started 2. Graphics Boards 3. HyperStudio 9- References 1. End Notes 2. Background Reading 10-The Library 1. Print media 2. HyperStudio 3. Web-based 4. CD-based 5. On-Line	OVERVIEW: Todayπs economy ≥places value on broad knowledge and skills, flexibility, cross-training, multi-tasking, teaming, problem-solving and project-based work.≤ (Skills 2003)
	(1) ICT LITERACY 1. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is ≥transforming our economy and our society, changing the way we live, work, and relate to one another.≤ (Gore 1998). 2. To prepare for jobs requiring them to ≥acquire new knowledge, learn new technologies, rapidly process information, make decisions and communicate in a global and diverse society,≤ students must ≥develop ability to create, analyze and transform information and to interact effectively with others.≤(Skills 2003)	(3) PARTNERSHIP FOR 21stCENTURY SKILLS 1. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a public-private organization formed to define and incorporate into learning the skills that are necessary for every student's success in the 21st Century. 2. The Partnership currently has eight members: AOL-Time Warner; Apple; Cable in the Classroom; Cisco; Dell; the National Education Association (NEA); Microsoft and SAP. The Partnership's work is also supported in part by the U.S. Department of Education. 3. The Partnership brings together educators, administrators, parents, businesses, and community leaders to determine how to define and assess these skills, as well as to make recommendations and provide tools for their implementation.
	(2) 21^st CENTURY LITERACY 1. Technology skills become important ≥long before people look for jobsä. as soon as children begin to learn.≤ (Gore 1998) 2. Todayπs education system faces irrelevance ≥unless we bridge the gap between how students live and how they learn.≤ Accelerating technological change, rapidly accumulating knowledge, increasing global competition and rising workforce capabilities around the world make 21st century skills essentials. (Skills 2003). 3. Literacy in the 21st century means more than basic reading, writing and computing skills. It means ≥knowing how to use knowledge and skills in the context of modern life.≤ Todayπs students connect with their friends via e-mail, instant messaging and chat rooms online; search the Web to explore their interests; express themselves fluently using new media; learn with educational software; play video and computer games in virtual realities; manipulate digital photos; go behind the scenes on DVDs; channel surf on television; and chat on and take photographs with cell phones. Through the media, they identify with their peers in the global culture through music, games, toys, fashion, animation and movies 4. "Literacy in the 21st Century means more than basic reading, writing, and computing skills. Alvin Tofler points out, ≥The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.≤ Students will spend their adult lives in ≥a multitasking, multifaceted, technology-driven, diverse, vibrant world.≤ (Skills 2003)