21st Century Skills

21st Century Skills

1. Digital Literacy-based activities

   • Analogue Applications
   • Digital Applications

2. 4 CS

   • Critical Thinking and Problem solving
     • Many digital Literacies equate to the areas of critical thinking and problem solving
       • Information Literacy involves learners considering sources of information in terms of their veracity, appropriateness and usefulness.
       • Code Literacy teaches both logic and troubleshooting skills. As learners acquire the skills, they need to make technology work for them, in a constructive and creative manner.
       • Gaming Literacy invites learners to think about situations and dilemmas (from different points of view, from logistical to moral) and to solve problems before being able to move forward in gameplay.
     • Typical Activities: Web treasure hunts and webquests, online games and apps which involve problem solving or scenario-based decision making , printed or e-readers and mazes.
   • Citizenship
     • Remix as a way of expressing values, political opinions or points of view.
     • (Inter)cultural Literacy with its emphasis on the meeting of minds, countries, opinions and cultures.
     • Participatory Literacy with a focus on working together and taking part in action or activism.
     • This is an area which will require a good deal of care and local knowledge if it is to be implemented safety and productively.
     • Typical Activities: Activities which involve rresearch and evaluation of opinions, exploring critical issues, both global and local, intercultural projects and exchanges and anything that encoyrages learners to examine their place on the planet, and some of the issues that affect that place.
   • Creativity and Imagination
     • Literacies such as Multimedia Literacy, with its concentration on multimodal content creation, or Remix, where proponents not only combine and manipulate media, but subvert it at the same time.
     • Typical Activities: Activities which involve audio and video creation or editing, poster design, collaborative or individual story-writing , image collections or video libraries.
   • Collaboration and Communication
     • Literacies which fit into the "focus on connections" area are particularly relevant here
       • Personal Literacy might incorporate ways of communicating with the outside world and of expressing oneself.
       • Particpatory Literacy suggests working as part of a group or collaborating on distance produced content, taking part in discussions and group work, working towards a common goal.
       • Typical activities: Keeping a blog, distance projects and collaborative content creation, email or online chat-mediated penpal exchanges, live chats between geographically-separated groups, Skype chat, etc.

3. Student Leadership and Personal Development

   • This might include personal, participatory and network literaciesfrom the "focus on connections" area, and might even extend to literacies in the "focus on information"area, with activities aimed at researching and extending knowledge and learning.
   • Typical Activities: Activities involving personal development might concentrate on blogging or other types or reflective activities , as well as opportunities for personal and professional development through the reading of blogs, journals and other online sources of learning, and even study opportunities in the form of MOOCs.
   • Students Leadership might be encouraged through the use of discussion dora or other collaborative areas where roles are fluid and constantly changing.