21st Century Skills

 21st Century Skills

What will you have to do to become confident of your 21st Century Skills as a learner and as a teacher in Digital Literacy?

What are 21st Century Skills Anyways.  The 21st Century Skills are the skills needed to be successful in today's world, such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication and collaboration. 

According to Cornell University, Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet.

One of the big challenge as a learner and as a teacher in these days is learning coding skills and then be able to teach them to my students.  In order to become confident of my 21^st century skills I will need to practice and study really hard.  It is also important to keep in mind that we are facing diverse students in today’s classrooms.   I will find students with a lot of experience and knowledge in digital literacy, but at the same time I will have students with minimum experience in digital literacy and then the challenge is going to be huge.  I need to prepare myself to all these challenges.  Therefore, I need to create a plan on the digital literacy for the class but always keeping on mind every student as an individual. 

References

Comparing frameworks for 21st century skills. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=aGYXBwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT79&dq=21st+century+skills+in+education&ots=waf3DW8ZZL&sig=nb1acO0hdAoTMzeBPZLZonKoxZM#v=onepage&q=21st%20century%20skills%20in%20education&f=false

ISTE - International Society for Technology in Education http://www.iste.org/

ISTE Self Assessment http://www2.gwd50.org/hughesc/eP_Self_Assessment.pdf