21st Century Skills: It’s Not About the Technology

Toby FischerIntegration Coaches for 21st Century Skills

Upper Arlington City Schools

CreatingLearners.com

1. Chat with the people in the room electronically•Go to http://backnoise.com/?21cskills•Enter your name•Type your thoughts and questions•I will join the conversation and address questions as frequently as possible.

2. Talk at your tables

3. Answer the text message polls (see the first one below)

Three ways to actively participate in today’s session

All of today’s materials can be found at www.creatinglearners.com

Video clip--Jargon

What are steps you should take to intentionally help your

students build these skills?

Click Here to Play TEDxNYED - Chris Lehmann

How do we get started?

• Be a model for your staff and students 

• Be a learner...be willing to be transformed.

• Keep asking questions....ask the hard questions.   Inquiry is great for our students....and us!

• Pick a focus area and purposeful & intentional assess your students development of the skills - rubrics

• “How do we dream?”  (Not...how do we fix education)  Continue the conversation....meet with students, parents, colleagues, administrators, etc.   

• “Empower the Kids”   It’s their education and they deserve a voice in their world.

Closing Thought...

Become the learner you are trying to develop!

•21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times by Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel•21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn by James Bellanca and Ron Brandt•Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World by Heidi Hayes Jacobs•The Fourth Way: The Inspiring Future for Educational Change by Dr. Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley•Change Wars: Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan, Editors•The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need --and What We Can Do About It by Tony Wagner

Resources to further explore