EDUC 2D 21st Century Digital Learner

1. The 21st century as the beginning of the
Digital Age, a time of unprecedented growth
in technology and its subsequent information
explosion. Never before have the tools for
information access and management made
such an impact on the way we live, work,
shop and play.

2. THERE ARE SOME DIFFERENCES IN HOW
THE SKILLS ARE CATEGORIZED OR
INTERPRETED
1. Creativity and Innovation:
Using knowledge and understanding to create
new ways of thinking in order to find solutions to
new problems and create new products and
services.
Think Creativity
Use a wide range of idea creation techniques (such
brainstorming).

3.  Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical
concepts).
 Elaborate, refine, analyze, and evaluate ideas in order to improve and
maximize creative efforts.
 Demonstrate imagination and curiosity.
 Work Creativity with others:
Develop. Implement, and communicate new ideas to others effectively.
 Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspective; incorporate
group input and feedback into the work.
 Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the
real world limits to adopting new ideas
 View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and
innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent
mistakes

4. Implement Innovation:
 Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the
field in which the innovation will occur.
2. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving:
Applying higher order to new problems and issues, using
appropriate reasoning as they effectively analyze the problem and make
decisions about the most effective ways to solve the problem.
Reason Effectively:
 Use various types of reasoning appropriate to the situation.
 Use System Thinking:
 Analyze how parts of a whole interact with each other to produce overall
outcomes in complex system.

5. Make Judgments and Decisions:
 Effectively analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments, claims and
beliefs.
 Analyze and evaluate major alternative points of view.
 Synthesize and make connections between information and
arguments.
 Interpret information and draw conclusions based on the best on the
best analysis.
Reflect critically on learning experiences and processes.
Solve Problems:
Solve different kinds of non-familiar problems in both conventional and
innovative ways.
 Identify and ask significant question that clarify various points of view
and lead to better solutions.

6.  Communication:
 Communication effectively in a wide variety of forms and contexts for a wide
range of purposes and using multiple media and technologies.
Communicate Clearly:
 Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written, and nonverbal
communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts.
Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes,
and attentions.
 Collaboration:
 Working with others respectfully and effectively to create, use and share
knowledge, solutions and innovations.
 Collaborate with others:
Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse
teams.

7. 5. Information Management:
Accessing analyzing, synthesizing, creating and sharing information from
multiple sources.
 Effective Use of Technology:
 Creating the capacity to identify and use technology efficiency
effectively and ethically as a tool access, organize, evaluate and share
information.
Collaboration:
Working with others respectfully and effectively to create, use and share
knowledge, solutions and innovations.
 Collaborate with others:
Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse
teams.

8.  Career and Life Skills:
Developing skills for becoming self-directed, independent learners
and workers who can adapt to change, manage projects, take
responsibility for their work, lead others and produce results.
 Cultural Awareness:
Developing cultural competence in working with others by
recognizing and respecting cultural differences and work to others
from a wide range of cultural and social backgrounds.

9. INFORMATION, MEDIAAND
TECHNOLOGY
INFORMATION LITERACY
Access and Evaluate Information:
•Access information efficiently and effectively .
•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 sources.

10. MEDIA LITERACY
Analyze Media:
•Understand both how and why media messages are constructed and
for what purposes
•Examine how individuals interpret messages differently, how values
and points of view are included or excluded, and how media can
influence beliefs and behaviors
Create Media Products:
•Understand and utilize the most appropriate media creation tools,
characteristics, and conventions
•Understand and effectively utilize the most appropriate expressions
and interpretations in diverse, multi-cultural environments

11. ICT LITERCY
Apply Technology Effectively
•Use the technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate, and
communicate information.
• Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues
surrounding the access and use of information technologies.
•Use digital technologies communication/networking tools, and
social networks appropriately to access, manage, integrate,
evaluate, and create information to successfully function in a
knowledge economy.

12. Integrating 21st Century Skills Content
These skills are both the thinking processes and behaviors
students will use as they learn subject area content and work
with others to deepen their understanding of the content. All lf
the framework emphasize the need to ground 21st century skills
in core content, and especially in an interdisciplinary fashion.
Connecting the content knowledge to real world applications
and problems situations that enable students to see how what
they are learning connects with their lives and the world
around them.

13. Emphasizing deep understanding of the learning by focusing on projects
and problems that require students to use the content knowledge in new
ways and to extend their understanding through collaboration with others.
Helping students understand and monitor thinking processes they are
using by including metacognitive activities that ask students to reflect on
their use of thinking structures and the effectiveness of the thinking
strategies they employed.
Using the technology to help students access, analyze, organize and share
what they are learning and allow students to independently locate
appropriate tools for the task.
Providing opportunities for students to become “ creators as well as
consumers of published information by providing opportunities for
creating and verifying their own entries in collaborative sites and
evaluating contributions of others.

14. Engaging students in solving complex problems that require higher
order thinking and application of content and that result in new
perspective and solutions to problems.
Providing opportunities for students to work collaborative as they
gather information, solve problems, share ideas, and generate new
ideas.
Developing life and career skills by creating opportunities for
students to become self-directed learners who take responsibility for
their own learning and who learn how to work effectively with
others.
Helping students make connections between subjects, concepts and
ideas and with others, including those outside of the classroom.

15. HOW SHOULD INSTRUCTION CHANGE
TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR SUCCESS IN
THE 21ST CENTURY?
The 21st century skills are not really different. We have
always wanted students to be creative thinkers and problem
solvers who have the skills necessary to function effectively in
society and in the workplace.

16. INSTRUCTION THAT MEETS THE NEED OF
TODAY'S STUDENTS WILL INCORPORATE
: A variety of learning opportunities and activities.
: The use of opportunities technology tools to accomplish
learning goals.
: Project and problem based learning.
: Cross curricular connections.
: A focus on inquiry and the student led investigations.
: Collaborative learning environments, both within and beyond
the classroom.
: High levels of visualization and the use of visual to increase
understanding.
: Frequent, formative assessments including the use of self
assessments.