What is 21st Century Learning

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Skills or attributes required to actively participate and add value in a changing society. Learn more in: Enhancing 21st Century Learning Using Digital Learning Objects and Multiple Intelligence Theory: A Conceptual Model

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A set of core competencies that promote collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem solving aimed at helping K-12 learners function successfully in what is expected to be a high tech, globally connected century. Learn more in: Mini-Robots as Smart Gadgets: Promoting Active Learning of Key K-12 Social Science Skills

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Focuses on individual student’s needs rather than seeing the class homogenously. It is activity based, with an emphasis on questioning, explaining, demonstration, and collaboration techniques. It embraces technology, uses skill-based methods, and allows students to manifest their own progress. Learn more in: Back to My Roots: Utilizing Hair to Build Student-Led Learning in the Classroom

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Cognitive skills required to address the demands and challenges of the 21st century (e.g. creativity and Innovation -inventive thinking, cross-cultural understanding -global awareness and cross-cultural skills, critical thinking, effective communication, collaborating, the flexible & self-directed learning, skills related to being information and communication technology literate). Learn more in: Understanding the Potentials of Social Media in Collaborative Learning

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An umbrella term encompassing the skills deemed necessary for productive participation in 21 st century society, spanning communicative, collaborative, and creative competencies related to emergent technologies alongside critical thinking capacities. Learn more in: Exploring Science Fictional Futures With Secondary Students: Practicing Critical Literacy

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Learning which is effective in the 21st century global world. Elements of 21st century learning include, but are not limited to, critical thinking, problem solving, collaborative learning, technology and information literacies, lifelong learning, and creativity. Learn more in: If at First You Don’t Succeed, Become a Lifelong Learner: Gaining Capital through Online Higher Education Environments

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A pedagogical approach to preparing students for college and career contexts beyond the immediate school context by utilizing a core set of skills such as collaboration, critical thinking, and digital literacy. Learn more in: Self-Efficacy and Persistence in a Digital Writing Classroom: A Case Study of Fifth-Grade Boys