21st Century Skills

I recently was researching a website about teaching 21st century skills in schools. The group, The Partnership for 21st Century Learning, suggests that schools need to enforce the skills students will need to live and work in the 21st century. The group discusses on their website that their is a disconnect between the skills taught in schools and the skills needed in our community and workplace. With their partnership, they work to help create a set of skills that allows to students to be well-rounded in all aspects. They discuss the importance of teaching the core subjects, life and career skills, learning and innovation skills, and information, media, and technology skills as an interconnected curriculum. I agree with everything this website suggests in order to help create more well-rounded students who are ready to live in our communities and work in our technologically advanced environment.

I feel that my students are at an advantage when it comes to this. I feel very fortunate that my students have the opportunity to use computers on a daily basis. They have recently learned how to email and blog. My students find these things to be "fun". Through their "fun", they are also learning many things. We are learning how to be professional online through email and blogs, how to edit our typing because others will read what we see, etc. I believe that as more new technologies are created, we need to incorporate them into our teaching, in order to help prepare our students.

Resources: www.21stcenturyskills.org