The 21st

Century Skills

Objectives:
Describe the 21st century skills;
Identify ways to develop the 21st

century skills;
Apply the 21st century skills to
improve teaching and learning.

Activity A
Read the following case. Discuss and decide
as a group if the teaching-learning process shows
examples of 21st century learning.
TOPIC: PROTECTION OF ENDANGERED
SPECIES
LEVEL: 6
Teacher shows students a table containing a
list of animals classified as endangered and
information about their status. Teacher asks
students to select from the table three animals
that interest them.

Teacher asks students to copy from the

table information about the animals
habitats, the countries where they are found
and 2-3 factors that threaten their survival.
Students copy information in their notebooks.
Teacher next tells students to select 1
out of the three they viewed. Teacher
instructs students to sketch a picture of their
chosen animal. Teacher shows students
references for their drawings.

Teacher tells students to do their sketch on

a piece of bond paper. Below the picture,
students are asked to write the information
they copied. Teacher tells students to frame
their picture.
When done, teacher has students post
their sketches on a wall in the classroom. In
effect, the wall becomes a gallery of animals
classified as endangered. Teacher invites
students to share their sketches and talk about
their animals.

Three Types of Decisions

Yes, all the procedures done in the class are

good examples of 21st century skills group

stands up and shouts Hooray!
Some of the procedures done in the class
are examples of 21st century skills and some
are not group stands up and says
Hmmm!
No, all the procedures done in the class are
not examples of 21st century skills group
stands up and says Huh!

21 21

(video)

How is instruction done in the different

classes?
What do they all emphasize?

Analysis
Which part of the video has a similar topic as the

one done in Activity A?

Where the procedure in the Save the Whales
part similar or different? What are the similarities
or differences?

CASECLASS

VIDEOCLASS

Studentscopiedinformation
fromagiventable.

Studentsanswereda
problemquestionand
gatheredinformationto
answertheproblem.

Studentsreadtheinformation
theycopied.

Studentsreportedtheir
findingstoamixed
group.

Studentsworkedalone.

Studentsworkedin
teams.

Studentssketchedapicture
basedonareference.

Studentsmadea
presentationusing
differentmedia.

RAPATAN2015

Educating for the

unknown for what
might come, for
nimble ways of
thinking about it

The Digital
Native

http://www.billlouden.com/technology2

VIDEOCLASS

st

Studentsansweredaprobl
em
questionandgathered
informationtoanswerthe
problem.
Studentsreportedtheir
findingstoamixedgroup.

21CENTURYSKILLS
CRITICALTHINKING
ANDPROBLEMSOLVING

COMMUNICATION

Studentsworkedinteams. COLLABORATION
Studentsmadeapresentati CREATIVITY
on
usingdifferentmedia.
RAPATAN2015

We wont know what

children would know 10
years from now, so
inquiry is the process
children learn how to
learn and apply those
skills in the learning of
everything for the
future

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21st classroom is
highly augmented with
technology that allows
kids to be one on one.
Its like to have a play
time rather than to
have people sitting
around with a teacher
in front.

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21CENTURYSKILLS
CRITICALTHINKINGA
ND
PROBLEM-SOLVING

INSTRUCTION
Teacherposesaproblema
nd
asksstudentstosolveitor
researchforanswers.

COMMUNICATION

Teacherraisesanissueor
topicandstudentsexpress
theirideaswithvariedmed
ia.

COLLABORATION

Teacherprovidesataskan
d
studentsworkinteams.

CREATIVITY

Teacherpresentsachallen
ge

THE K+ 12 GRADUATE

Group yourselves according to your region.

Provide the groups with pink and blue meta

cards.
In the pink meta cards, write the skills you
have been doing in the course of your work.
In the blue meta cards, write the 21st
century skills that you will start applying.
Arrange your outputs creatively on a half
sheet of Manila paper.
Post outputs.
Group leader shall present the groups
output.

Success in the 21st century requires

knowing how to learn. Students today
will likely have several careers in their
lifetime. They must develop strong
critical thinking and interpersonal
communication skills in order to be
successful in an increasingly fluid,
interconnected, and complex world.
Technology allows for 24/7 access to
information, constant social interaction,
and easily created and shared digital
content.

In this setting, educators can leverage

technology to create an engaging and
personalized environment to meet the emerging
educational needs of this generation. No longer
does learning have to be one-size-fits-all or
confined to the classroom. The opportunities
afforded by technology should be used to reimagine 21st-century education, focusing on
preparing students to be learners for life.
- Karen Cator -