Twenty-one 21st Century Skills ResourcesRozz Hardin, Shelby County Schools

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• The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a national organization that advocates for 21st century readiness for every student. As the United States continues to compete in a global economy that demands innovation, P21 and its members provide tools and resources to help the U.S. education system keep up by fusing the three Rs and four Cs (critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity and innovation).

The Partnership for 21st Century Skillswww.p21.org

• Focuses on 21st century skills, content knowledge and expertise.

• Builds understanding across and among core subjects as well as 21st century interdisciplinary themes

• Emphasizes deep understanding rather than shallow knowledge

• Engages students with the real world data, tools, and experts they will encounter in college, on the job, and in life--students learn best when actively engaged in solving meaningful problems

• Allows for multiple measures of mastery• continues to compete in a global economy that

demands innovation, P21 and its members provide tools and resources to help the U.S. education system keep up by fusing the three Rs and four Cs (critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity and innovation).

21st Century Standards

CORE ACADEMICS• Reading• Writing• Arithmetic

• Critical thinking and problem solving

• Communication• Collaboration• Creativity and Innovation

21ST CENTURY SKILLS

The Three Rs and the Four Cs

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21st Century Interdisciplinary Themes

Global AwarenessUsing 21st century skills to see the “big picture”

Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial LiteracyThe economy, personal finance and entrepreneurial skills

Health Literacy Using available information to make appropriate health-related decisions

Environmental LiteracyAwareness of our impact on the world around us

Global

Financial

Environ-ment

Civic

Health

Civic Literacy Stay informed/involved in governmental processes and display proper citizenship

• Pearson 21st Century Resources

• http://www.pearsonschool.com/index.cfm?locator=PSZhP4

• Atomic Learning 21st Century Skills Lesson Accelerators and Projects

• http://www.atomiclearning.com

• The Gateway to 21st Century Skills Resource website

• http://www.thegateway.org

•Online ResourcesGeneral

• The Center for International Understandinghttp://ciu.northcarolina.edu/

•Online ResourcesGlobal Awareness

• FEFE Financial Literacy Resources - http://www.fefe.arizona.edu/ • My Money .Gov - http://www.mymoney.gov/ • National Financial Capability Challenge -

http://www.challenge.treas.gov/

•Online ResourcesFinancial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy

• CIRCLE - http://www.civicyouth.org/ • Center for Civic Education - http://new.civiced.org/

•Online ResourcesCivic Literacy

• Medical Library Association – Health Information Literacy http://www.mlanet.org/resources/healthlit/

• Iowa Department of Education - http://www.corecurriculum.iowa.gov/Discipline.aspx?C=21st+Century+Skills&D=Health+Literacy

•Online ResourcesHealth Literacy

• National Environmental Education Foundation - http://www.neefusa.org/resources/publications.htm

• Environmental Literacy Council - http://www.enviroliteracy.org/

•Online ResourcesEnvironmental Literacy

Access and Evaluate Information

• Access information efficiently (time) and effectively (sources)

• Evaluate information critically and competently

Use and Manage Information

• Use information accurately and creatively for the issue or problem at hand

• Manage the flow of information from a wide variety of sources

• Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information

Information Literacy

• Filamentality• http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcen

t/index.html

• International Society for Technology in education

• http://www.iste.org

•Online ResourcesTechnology Literacy

Web 2.0 Resources for Technical LiteracyTry these sites for collaboration projects with your students.

Wikispaces – www.wikispaces.comWordPress – http://wordpress.com Edublogs – http://edublogs.org Edmoto – www.edmodo.com Netvibes – www.netvibes.com

Twenty-one 21st Century Skills ResourcesTrilling, Bernie. "The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Home." The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Apr. 2011. <http://www.p21.org/index.php>.