Assignment 3.

What are the 21st century skills?
The Glossary of Education describes 21st Century Skills as the following: "The term
21st-century skills refers to a broad set of knowledge, skills, work habits, and character
traits that are believed—by educators, school reformers, college professors, employers,
and others—to be critically important to success in today's world." Simply put, 21st
Century Skills are the skills required to enable an individual to tackle the challenges of a
world that is internationally engaged, digitally altering, jointly going forward, creatively
progressing, and seeking competent human resources.
•Wagner (2010) and the Change Leadership Group3 at Harvard University recognized
an additional set of talents and skills. Wagner emphasized that students need seven
survival skills to be prepared for twenty-first-century life, work, and citizenship, based on
hundreds of interviews with business, non-profit, and education leaders: critical thinking
and problem solving, collaboration and leadership, agility and adaptability, initiative and
entrepreneurialism, and effective oral and written communication. Accessing and
analyzing information, as well as being curious and imaginative.
THE EMERGENCE OF 21st CENTURY SKILLS
Delors Report involved-

* Learning to Know, Learning to Do, Learning to Live Together, and Learning to Be.
WHO Life Skills:
* Decision-Making and Problem-Solving;
* Creative Thinking and Critical Thinking;
* Communication and Interpersonal Skills;
* Self-awareness and Empathy;
* Coping with Emotions and Coping with Stress.
OECD
* The document '21 Century Skills and Competences for New Millennium Learners in
OECD Countries' details three major dimensions for the 21st Century Skills:
i) Communication
ii) Information, and
iii) Ethics and Social Impact.
P21
* P21 provided eleven competencies, gisted into 3 skill sets: i) Learning and Innovation
Skills
ii) Information, Media, and Technological Skills, iïi) Life and Career Skills
ATCS
* ATCS categorized 21st-century skills into four types: i) Ways of Thinking
ii) Ways of Working
iii) Tools for Working, and iv) Living in the World.
UNESCO working paper
•Revisited and divided all above -researched Skills into Learning to Know, Learning to
Do, Learning to Live.
TYPES OF SKILLS
1. Problem Solving and Critical Thinking: Critical thinking involves objectively analyzing
information and contains the following characteristics: - Fairness and open-mindedness
- Activeness and information seeking - Willingness to examine and entertain doubts -
Independence. Recognizing and evaluating values, peer pressure, and media effects.
Problem solving involves identifying relevant information from a large amount of data,
discarding irrelevant information to provide new information, and using experience to
relate new problems to previously solved ones.
2. Originality and Ingenuity:

These are the abilities to experiment and develop original thought processes. Four
characteristics make up creativity: originality (thinking of something new), fluency
(producing new ideas), flexibility (changing perspectives readily), and elaboration
(building on others' ideas). Creativity is defined as a new way of seeing or doing things.
The ability to think creatively in order to create something novel, distinctive, enhanced,
or new is known as innovative skills.
3. Cooperation:
The capacity to collaborate with others in an efficient manner is called collaboration.
This ability entails cooperating, acting with consideration for the needs and viewpoints
of others, and participating in and accepting the outcome. Working together promotes
enjoyment and interest in the teaching-learning process. It successfully widens social,
cultural, and environmental barriers and aids in a child's improved understanding of
environmental and social issues.
4. Interaction:
The ability to correctly, both vocally and nonverbally, express one's thoughts, desires,
needs, fears, etc. is referred to as communication.
5. Information literacy, media literacy:

The ability to access media, technology, and information—both traditional and digital—is
one of these competencies. Technology literacy enables efficient creation and
communication as well as an understanding of and critical evaluation of various content
and informational components.
CONCLUSION
Only when a student can successfully carry out and fulfill his or her responsibilities and
duties towards self, school, family, society, and most importantly, the nation, can
learning be considered comprehensive and all-encompassing. Encouraging today's
pupils to be responsible, law-abiding citizens who understand their own abilities and
potential is the aim. Just teaching students how to take tests or preparing them for
exams won't help them deal with real-world issues. The acquisition of 21st century skills
is essential for enabling children and teenagers to effectively handle life's challenges
and worries. They feel a range of emotions, many of which are connected to their
maturation from early childhood through puberty and beyond. These are important for
children with special needs to develop their independence in their home, school, and
community environments.

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THE EMERGENCE OF 21st CENTURY SKILLS

Delors Report involved-

2. Originality and Ingenuity:

5. Information literacy, media literacy:

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