Key 21st Century Skills

Key 21st Century Skills

1. CREATIVITY

   • Imagining and expressing something new and worthwile individually and/or collaboratively.
   • Innovating, using initiative, entreprise, and taking calculated risk.
   • Evaluating these creations in order to improve and develop them.
   • Using appropriate digital tools

2. COMMUNICATION

   • Expressing yourself confidently and clearly, in various forms and languages, and in a range of situations.
   • Extended Literacy
     • Traditional Reading, Writing, Reading, Speaking.
     • Considering different perspectives.
     • Persuading others.
     • Choosing and using communication aids (notes, maps, digital tools).

3. COLLABORATION

   • Working in diverse teams to plan and achieve a common objective.
   • Contributing ideas and opinions and respecting others'
   • Being flexible, playing a range of roles (leading, following, enabling)
   • Selecting and using digital tools for efficient and effective group work

4. DIGITAL COMPETENCES

   • Operational Skills
     • Selecting, accessing, using and managing digital resources and social media to communicate, collaborate, learn, solve problems and have fun.
   • Information Literacy
     • Critically evaluating information
     • Understanding ethical and legal issues
     • Being safe and responsible online

5. CRITICAL THINKING

   • Real-world problem-solving
   • Assessing options and making decisions
   • Building knowledge using argument, reasoning and analysis
   • Making judgements and conclusions involving complex systems

6. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

   • Learning to learn
     • Taking responsibility for one's learning in and beyond school
     • Effective self-management of learning
     • Meeting deadlines, working autonomously, persevering
     • Reflecting critically on learning
   • Self-actualisation
     • Adapting to change
     • Handling setbacks
     • Planning and managing to achieve personal goals
   • Citizenship
     • Actively engaging in and shaping community and political activities