21st Century Skills
Partnership with 21st Century Skills is a phenomenal website that elaborates on the
connection teachers can make with the 21st Century Skills we are teaching and
how to use them within the classroom. I love how this website lists the ways
that we can make the skills easier for teachers to implement in the classroom.
It has plans and support systems that the teachers can use to help them. It
defines the 21st Century skills and tells educators how we can implement them
inside the classroom.
The
world is constantly changing and it is imperative that we are changing with the
fast world. The website shows a diagram of how they foresee the 21st Century
skills and how it should be mapped out in our brains to make it easier for
educators to imagine.
This website stated, "It is
important for us to maximize the impact of technology." I agree with this
statement, yet we need to make it relevant to our students. The website gave a
brief overview of the idea of the virtual education world and how it can be
implemented. It is hard to believe
that this type of learning is already being introduced and used.
Partnership
with 21st Century Skills also touched on
the idea that students and teachers should be able to work in an environment
with changing priorities. I
disagree with this idea of learning. Students of really young ages need to be
able to focus and manage one priority at a time. Although this is realistic for
students and teachers of older ages, children need a slower change. Students
are quite permeable, yet it is imperative they are not feeling stressed with
the change.
Partnership
with 21st Century Skills suggests a great
deal of implications for the students and teachers in the classroom. It
suggests teachers should be implementing technology in the classroom as the
society changes around us. There is a great need for students to be learning
with tools that will help them in the "real world" as they grow
older. The teachers are asked to create lessons that include the dispositions
of the 21st Century skills and we are able to do this with collaboration and
with the help of this website. The main idea I got from this website is that
students should be collaborating with the use of technology and using it as
frequently as possible.
Resources
The partnership for 21st century
skills. (2011).
http://www.p21.org/
