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Century Skills by Bernie Trilling & Charles Fadel summarize by ur
What is 21
st
c learning? What are 21
st
c skills? 21
st
C Learning in practices
Past : Routine manual & cognitive
(bookkeepers, truck drivers, security guards, waiters,
janitors)
Future : Complex thinking & communicating
(scientist, attorney, managers, doctors, designers,
software programmers
In more developed countries:
Routine work done by machines
Creative work: research, development, design,
marketing and sales, global supply chain management
LEARNING & INNOVATION SKILLS
Expert thinking : critical thinking & problem solving
Complex communicating : Communication &
collaboration
Think creatively, work creatively with others &
Implement innovations

LEARNING :
the Problems and Questions
Questions and the process to uncover their answer
Why do you work here? Why is the sky blue? What
causes cancer?

Problems and the inventing of their possible solutions
How can I make this airplane safer? How can we store
more data in a smaller space? How can we use website
to market our company or to publish our experiment?
AGRARIAN AGE : Grow food, learning the basic 3
R(reading, rithmetic, riiting), help neighbors, pass knowledge
to the next generation
INDUSTRIAL AGE : serve society through a specialized
profession, achieve basic literacy and numeracy, learn
factory, trade and industry job skills, participate in social to
benefit the community, maintain ones own culture and
values amid a diversity of urban traditions
KNOWLEDGE AGE: contribute to global and knowledge
work, enhance personal development with IT, participate in
community decision making, quickly learn traditional
knowledge and apply its principles across others fields to
create a new knowledge and innovations. Participate in a
wide diversity of traditions and multicultural experiences
INFORMATION, MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY SKILLS
Information literacy : Access , evaluate, use
INFORMATION critically, accurately, efficiently,
creatively
Media literacy: e.g videos, audio podcast, website
Information and communication technology (ICT )
literacy : Analyze and Create Media product

Roads to answer and solutions using method of
Science & Engineering
Scientific experimental
method :
Pose a question
Research a question
Construct and answer,
explanation or hypothesis
to be tested
Analyze the result and
draw a conclusion about
the answer
Communicate the results
and compare with others
Engineering design
method:
Define a problem
Research the problem
Design, plan and build a
prototype or solution to be
tested
Analyze the result and
improve the solution to the
problem
Communicate the results
and implement or market
LEARNING FOR LIFE ( 21
st
c Learning Convergence)
KNOWLEDGE WORK : How to produce the knowledge
workers & innovators business in 21
st
c economy
THINKING TOOLS : Computer, optical fibers
DIGITAL LIFESTYLES
LEARNING RESARCH : Authentic learning, mental model
building, internal motivation, multiple intelligences
LIFE AND CAREER SKILLS
Manage goals & time
Work independently
Be self-directed learners

THE WHEELS :

Define, Plan, Do, Review

A NEW BALANCE SOCIAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL SKILLS
Interact effectively with others : know when its
appropriate to listen & speak
Conduct themselves in a respectable, professional
manner
Work effectively in diverse team : Respect cultural
differences and work effectively with people from a
range of social and cultural backgrounds
Respond open-mindedly to different ideas & values
PRACTICES:

Collaborative small-group learning
Project learning methods
Problem-based Learning
Design based learning

Teacher-directed
Direct instruction
Knowledge
Content
Basic skills
Facts & principles
Theory & Curriculum
Competitive & exclusive
Learner-centered
Interactive exchange
Skills
Process
Applied skills
Questions & problems
Practices & Projects
Collaborative & global
The slogan is :

Teach LESS, learn MORE
LEADERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITY SKILLS
Guide and lead others
Be responsible to others

Retooling Schooling (Reshaping support systems) :
Standard( ICT skills, Thinking & reasoning, Personal skills)
assessment; curriculum & instruction; professional
development; learning environments