1. What is al the fuss about 21st. C
teaching/strategies?
By: Ma Ed. Cecilia Rosas Delgado
Directora del Centro de Idiomas del IPNM
English Coordinator INNOVA Schools

2. Think pair share
• What´s all the fuss about the 21st century,
21st century education, and 21st century
skills?

3. What has changed?
• The Internet revolution • Age of info whelm
Each day there are:  More data was produced
 3 million new web pages in the last 50 years than
in the last 5000 years
 15 million instant
 More than 3000 books
messages
are published daily
 25 million e-mail
 Age of disposable
messages
information
 The web is doubling its
 New technical
size every 100 days
information dubles every
 80% of the sites that will
2 weeks.
exist a year from now
don´t exist today.

4. We are products of our environments
Baby Boomers Generation X Digital Natives
 TV generation  Video Games  The Web
 Type writers  Computers  Mobile
 Memos  E-mail devices
 IM Text
messaging
 Online
communities

5. Think pair share
• List 3 unique characteristics of the Digital
Natives
• Describe what you do to meet their needs

6. Who are our students?

7. Who are our students?
 Born in or after 1992
 Ctrl + Alt + Del is as basic as ABC
 Busy with extracurricular activities
 Fascination for new technologies
 Computers have always fit in their
backpacks
 Photographs have always been
processed in an hour or less

8. The Student of the New Century

9. Three Question Exercise
1. What will the world be like 20 years from
now?
2. What skills will students need to be
successful in that world?
3. What would learning look like if it was
designed around your answers?

10. 21st century learning
20th Century 21st Century
10 - 15 Jobs
# of Jobs 1 - 2 Jobs
Flexibility and
Adaptability
Job Skill Mastery of One Field
Integration of 21st
Century Skills into
Subject Matter
Teaching Subject Matter Mastery
Integration of 21st
Model Mastery Century Skills into
Subject Matter
Mastery
Assessment Subject Matter
Model Mastery

11. 21ST CENTURY SKILLS
DEFINED
LEARNING & INNOVATION LIFE & CAREER
• Creativity & Innovation • Flexibility & Adaptability
• Critical Thinking & Problem- • Initiative & Self-direction
solving • Social & Cross-cultural Skills
• Communication & Collaboration • Productivity & Accountability
• Leadership & Responsibility
INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY
• Information Literacy
• Media Literacy
• ICT Literacy

12. Why are 21st century skills important?
students
Today’s education faces irrelevance unless
we bridge the gap between how students
live and how students learn.

13. why are 21st century skills important?
workforce
“The average person will change jobs nine
times by the time he or she is 32.”Elaine Chao,
U.S. Secretary of Labor

14. 20th Century Learning
Teacher-directed
Direct Instruction
Knowledge
Content
Basic Skills
Theory
Curriculum
Individual
Classroom
Summative Assessed
Learning for School

15. 21st Century Learning
Teacher-directed Learner-centered
Direct Instruction Collaborative Instruction
Knowledge Skills
Content Process
Basic Skills Higher-order Thinking
Theory Practice
Curriculum Life Skills
Individual Group
Classroom Community
Summative Assessments Formative Evaluations
Learning for School Learning for Life
A Better Balance

16. What ‘skills’ are required outside
the classroom?
Skills required by employers rated as important,
according to a recent survey:
The right academic qualifications 27%
The ability to appreciate an alternative point of view 42%
Communication and the ability to work in teams 62%
The ability to grasp complex information 68%
* Information from a survey made to employers
Source: GRADdirect, 2008

17. Employers who feel that graduates lack ‘soft skills’,
including the ability to communicate effectively: 55%
Also highlighted as concerns are an employee’s
ability to:
• manage their own learning
• solve problems
• be motivated
Graduate Recruitment Survey 2008, Association of Graduate Recruiters

18. lifeSkills: the big 5
- Self direction and learning
- Organization and planning
- Collaboration
- Information and research
- Thinking and problem solving
* These are the skills that empower our students to succeed in school/university and as
professionals.

19. lifeSkills
making personal being
understanding change assertiv
e
your learning style
Self-direction making a learning
plan
developing your & Learning
memory
becoming more
developing cultural self-aware
awareness

20. 20th Century Curriculum Model
Core Subjects
Core Subjects
Assessment

21. 21st Century Curriculum Model

22. Teaching Core Subjects
 Spanish  Government
 Reading of Language  Economics
Arts  Art
 Mathematics  History
 Science  Geography
 English
 Civics

23. Teaching 21st Century Content
 Global Awareness
 Financial, economic
and, business literacy
 Civic literacy

24. Whithin a 21st Century Context
• Learn academic content through real
world examples.
• Learning must be relevant engaging and
meaningful to their lives.
• Learning must expand beyond classroom
walls.

25. Using 21st century learning Skills
• Information and communication skills
• Thinking and problem solving skills
• Interpersonal and self-directional skills
The challenge now is to incorporate thinking skills into the
classroom deliberatelly, strategically and broadely

26. With 21st century tools
In a digital world students need to learn to
use the tools to master the learning skills
that are essencial to everyday life and
workplace productivity. This proficiency is
known as ICT literacy

27. Skilled 21st century citizens should be
proficient in ICT (Information and
Communications Technology)
The interest, attitude and
ability of individuals to
appropriately use digital
technology and
communication tools to
access, manage,
integrate and evaluate
information, construct
new knowledge and
communicate with others
in order to participate
effectively in society.