Building Skills for the FutureBuilding Skills for the FutureCritical Competencies for the 21st Century & Beyond
Nancie Payne, Payne & Associates, Inc.
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Partnership for 21Partnership for 21stst CenturyCentury Skills
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Welcome!Welcome!
• Getting to Know You & Me
• What’s Next? Platform of theskills for the 21st
Century
Competencies &skill-buildingmethods
Hands-onactivities & tools
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Platform for Skills of the 21st CenturyPlatform for Skills of the 21st Century
““School should beSchool should beless aboutless aboutpreparation forpreparation forlife and morelife and moreabout life itself.”about life itself.”
John DeweyJohn Dewey
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Platform for Skills of the 21st CenturyPlatform for Skills of the 21st Century
Used with permission from Partnership for 21st Century Skills
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Platform for Skills of the 21st CenturyPlatform for Skills of the 21st Century
• English, Reading,Language Arts
• Foreign Languages
• Arts
• Mathematics
• Economics
• Science
• Geography
• History
• Government & Civics
• Global Awareness
• Financial, Economic,Business &EntrepreneurialLiteracy
• Civic Literacy
Core Subjects & Interdisciplinary Themes
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Platform for Skills of the 21st CenturyPlatform for Skills of the 21st Century
Life & Career SkillsLife & Career Skills• Flexibility &
Adaptability
• Initiative & Self-direction
• Social & Cross-culturalSkills
• Productivity &Accountability
• Leadership &Responsibility
Information, MediaInformation, Media
& Technology Skills& Technology Skills• Information Literacy
• Media Literacy
• ICT – Information,Communication &Technology Literacy
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Platform for Skills of the 21st CenturyPlatform for Skills of the 21st Century
Learning & Innovation SkillsLearning & Innovation SkillsCritical Thinking & Problem Solving
Creativity & Innovation
Communication &
Collaboration
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Creativity and InnovationCreativity and Innovation•• Think CreativelyThink Creatively
– Use wide range of idea creation techniques– Create new & worthwhile ideas (incremental/radical concepts)– Elaborate, refine, analyze & evaluate ideas to improve &
maximize creative efforts
•• Work Creatively with OthersWork Creatively with Others– Develop, implement & communicate new ideas effectively– Be open & responsive to new & diverse perspectives;
incorporate group input & feedback into work– Demonstrate originality & inventiveness in work & understand
real world limits to adopting new ideas– View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand creativity
& innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of smallsuccesses & frequent mistakes
•• Implement InnovationsImplement Innovations– Act on creative ideas to make a tangible & useful contribution
to the field in which the innovation will occur
Partnership for 21Partnership for 21stst CenturyCentury
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Critical Thinking and Problem SolvingCritical Thinking and Problem Solving
•• Reason EffectivelyReason Effectively– Use various types of reasoning (inductive, deductive, etc.)
appropriate to situation
• Use Systems Thinking– Analyze how parts of a whole interact with each other to
produce overall outcomes in complex systems
•• Make Judgments and DecisionsMake Judgments and Decisions– Analyze/evaluate evidence, arguments, claims & beliefs– Analyze & evaluate major alternative points of view– Synthesize &make connections between data & arguments– Interpret data & draw conclusions based on best analysis– Reflect critically on learning experiences & processes
•• Solve ProblemsSolve Problems– Solve different kinds of non-familiar problems in both
conventional & innovative ways– Identify & ask significant questions that clarify various
points of view & lead to better solutionsPartnership for 21stCentury Skills -- www.21stcenturyskills.org
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Communication & CollaborationCommunication & Collaboration•• Communicate ClearlyCommunicate Clearly
– Articulate thoughts/ideas effectively using oral, written &nonverbal communication skills in a variety offorms/contexts
– Listen effectively to decipher meaning, includingknowledge, values, attitudes & intentions
– Use communication for a range of purposes (e.g. toinform, instruct, motivate & persuade)
– Utilize multiple media & technologies, & know how tojudge their effectiveness as well as assess impact
– Communicate effectively in diverse environments(including multi-lingual)
•• Collaborate with OthersCollaborate with Others– Demonstrate ability to work effectively & respectfully with
diverse teams– Exercise flexibility & willingness to be helpful in making
necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal– Assume shared responsibility for collaborative work, &
value individual contributions made by each team member
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Learning & Innovation SkillsLearning & Innovation Skills
• Learning must be a lifelong pursuit – a thirst forknowledge
• The new world of work in which the most desirable jobs– the ones least likely to be automated or outsourced –are those that require expert thinkingexpert thinking and complexcomplexcommunicationcommunication
Economists Frank Levy and Richard Murnane
• The Learning & Innovation Skills section focus is on
–– Higher Order Cognitive CompetenciesHigher Order Cognitive Competencies
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Learning & Innovation SkillsLearning & Innovation Skills
• Critical Thinking &Problem Solving
• Creativity &Innovation
• Communication &Collaboration
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Thinking CreativelyThinking Creatively
•• Defining Critical ThinkingDefining Critical Thinking
• Brainstorm words that define
“CRITICAL THINKING”“CRITICAL THINKING”
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Critical ThinkingCritical Thinking -- A Working DefinitionA Working Definition
–– A process ofA process of–– Actively & skillfullyActively & skillfully
• Conceptualizing
• Applying
• Synthesizing
• Evaluating
–– Information gathered from or generated byInformation gathered from or generated by• Observation
• Experience
• Reflection
• Reasoning
• Communication
–– As a guide to belief & actionAs a guide to belief & action
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Learning Is…Learning Is…• Actively
constructed
• Emerges from &builds onexperience
• Influenced bycultural differences
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Learning Is…Learning Is…
• Influenced by thecontext in which itoccurs
• Socially mediated& develops withina culture &community
Sonja Nieto
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Two ComponentsTwo Components
•• SkillsSkills to process &generate information &beliefs
•• HabitHabit ofof using thoseskills to guide behavior
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Critical ThinkingCritical Thinking
• Involves– Analyses of Experiences
– Reflections & Discernment
– Discussions
– Processing• Intuitive
• Creative
• Emotional
(Jack Mezirow)
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Can You do the Following?Can You do the Following?
• Locate the argument in a passage
• Detect errors in ways of thinking &explain how the thinking is in error
• Evaluate evidence & make appropriateassumptions from that evidence?
• Distinguish whether an argument’sconclusion follows with certainty oronly with probability
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Can You do the Following?Can You do the Following?
• Identify implied assumptions
• Identify the issue in a disagreement
• Detect logical inconsistency
• Detect & remove vagueness & doubt
• Identify the point or purpose of remarks
• Create an argument that avoids themisleading notion & makes a probablecase for a position on an issue
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Can You do the Following?Can You do the Following?
• Given an argument on a controversialissue, create a reasonable argumentthat defends a different or oppositeconclusion
• Detect a bad question because its“loaded” or contains hidden faultydata
• Be able to explain in what way this iscomparable or similar to that
• Compare the quality of twocompeting explanations
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Applied ActivitiesApplied Activities
Pay attention to whatPay attention to what
they tell you to forgetthey tell you to forget
MurielMuriel RukeyserRukeyser
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Name Three Places That…Name Three Places That…• Are in your own city• Are wet• Have big doors• You like to go after school• You have a lot of fun• A lot of people go to• People play sports• You can do your homework at• Have a lot of books• Police officers go to• Musicians go to• Are very warm• Are very cold• You go to on holidays• You go to during the winter
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MetaphorsMetaphors• Warm up
– I feel…, When I’m happy I’m like…,
• Object– What object would you be if you had a choice?
• House– What kind of house would you be if you had a
choice?
• Animal– What kind of animal would you be?
• Color– What Color are you?
Meggert, Sandra S., Creative Humor at Work
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QuestioningQuestioning• Why is it called a “pair of pants?”
• What are five things you valuemost in life?
• What is the one thing you think ofthat always makes you smile?
• What makes something beautiful?
• How do you want to beremembered?
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Learning & Innovation SkillsLearning & Innovation Skills
• Facilitators of learning
• Rather than Disseminators ofknowledge
• What does it mean to be aFacilitator?
• What is the differencebetween A Facilitator & aDisseminator?
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CharacteristicsCharacteristics•• Critical Thinking, Creativity,Critical Thinking, Creativity,
Communication & Collaboration…Communication & Collaboration…
– Productive, positivepositive activity
–– ProcessProcess not outcome
–– VariesVaries depending on context in which itoccurs
– Triggered by positive & negative eventsevents
–– SensitiveSensitive as well as rationalrational
Stephen Brookfield, Developing Critical Thinkers
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ComponentsComponents
• Identifying & challenging assumptionsis central
• Challenging the importance of contextis crucial
• Imagining & exploring alternatives
• Applying reflective skepticism
Stephen Brookfield, Developing Critical Thinkers
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Fostering Learning & Innovation SkillsFostering Learning & Innovation Skills
• Exploration & Critical Thought
– Investigation of new/different views
Use a multiUse a multi--sensorysensoryapproachapproach
Respect learner styleRespect learner style& preferences& preferences
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IdeasIdeas
• Free Dialogue followed by
– Journal Writing
– Drawing & Artistic Creations
– Writing
– Dramatization
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IdeasIdeas• Think-aloud about a situation/event
– Discussion – What Do You Think IShould Do?
• Discussion as a Teaching Strategy
– What do you know/think?
– How do you feel?
– What did you learn?
• If you Did Know – What do youthink your answer would be?
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IdeasIdeas• Read a Story Aloud with Discussion
– Current event
– Critic’s review
– Reading of interest
• Case Scenarios
• Picture Presentation
• Movie or Play
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Instructors Must…Instructors Must…• Remove the penalty for critical
& original thought
• …People fear looking stupid orasking something that is dumb.
• …must start removing conformityand the fear of dumbness from theclassroom
Carol Travis – co-author of Psychology
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Reminder…Reminder…• “To be playful and serious
at the same time ispossible, and it defines theideal mental condition.”
John Dewey, How We Think