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Amnah Al Hammoudi

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Watching the video confirms that all of the skills used TOGETHER and not separately will produce a student who is ready to face the workforce in the 21st century.

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The video showed six critical 21st century skills . These skills are : Critical Thinking , Collaboration , Communication , Creativity , Media Literacy and Information Literacy . These skills are essential to develop a knowledge based learning rather than just memorization .

The emphasis of these skills is to create an environment were students can learn for a life time . By applying these skills in a classroom , the education process becomes more beneficial and more student centered.

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As teachers, we need to be aware of nowadays stduents learning scince they prefer to use the technology. The word cloud shows how to deal with students to let them learn and enjoy thier learning.

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I made a word cloud on my entry on the 21st century skills assignment, and I noticed that the words 'work', , 'together', 'teaching', 'use' and 'skills' were the most prominent. It got me to thinking that that is the essence of what 21st century skills are – the skills that students need to develop, like working together and using tools, that will help them succeed in the 21st century (and beyond!).

I attached the video before because of the AMAZING idea it presents - we are, right now, preparing our students for jobs that don't even exist yet! How do we do that? This is where critical thinking, creative thinking, communicating and collaborating go hand in hand to help us prepare our students for the jobs of the future.

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Connecting High School to College and Career

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Preparing Students for College and Career

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Learn about the four Cs: critical thinking, creative thinking, communicating, and collaborating. Discover how to combine critical and creative thinking into ...

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In recent years, education systems worldwide have developed frameworks with an increased emphasis on developing the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for success in the 21st century.
The video represent that the 21 st educational skills controlled by the technology and the integration between the following:

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Collaboration across Networks and Leading by Influence

Agility and Adaptability

Effective Oral and Written Communication

Accessing and Analyzing Information

Curiosity and Imagination

So in the 21 st century the teacher only steers children in the right direction as they develop self-confidence and learn social values.

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The video expresses numerous sides to think of as teachers. Because there are many kinds of resources of getting information, teachers have to teach students what kind of resources
they have to choose to get the reliable and appropriate information. In addition, how this information can be relevant to the area of study and how and where they can benefit from these information. Can we use this information outside the classroom? Can these information help us to minimize problems in the future? The question is HOW!Students should be guided to validate these information then use them usefully. We as teachers should create a lesson that is relevant to the content we teach, challenge the students and most importantly an engaginglesson. Make students to solve problems, share opinions and open free discussionare what we as teachers looking for. We should help students to depend on themselves to discover more facts about what they read
and find then analyze them and createa change on how to make things better compared to what it looks like in the real life.

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Learning is a continuous process. It is not going to end the minute you graduate from your university or when you start working. The "what to learn part" might vary continuously but the "how to learn part" rarely does and that is where the 21st century skills come in to the picture. These are life skills telling you how to approach life.

To hold information-age jobs, students need to think deeply about issues, solve problems creatively, work in teams, communicate clearly in many media, learn ever-changing technologies, and deal with a flood of information. The rapid changes in our world require students to be flexible, to take the initiative and lead when necessary, and to produce something new and useful.

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As teachers in the 21st century, we should focus on ways in which we can use technology to create lessons that are relevant, challenging and engaging to help the global community of learners to utilize diverse approaches in applying 21st century skills which includes; Critical thinking, Media literacy, Communication, Collaboration, Information literacy and Creativity, that will prepare them for colleges and future careers in life.

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Cloud 3 word cloud art created by theresa.ikeogu

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The 21st Century Skills video presents the six different abilities students need to develop to succeed in the information age. The six skills as mentioned in the video are creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, media literacy and information literacy. If a teacher considers these skills when designing a learning activity, the learning process will be more efficient. Students will gain better knowledge and improve different skills. The successful of integrating technology into the classroom will make the delivered lesson more interactive, more engaging. Also, it will save both time and effort required to prepare, deliver or review a lesson. The teacher can use the Web 2.0 tools to make sure that students can interact, collaborate and share their ideas with others. When a teacher takes into account the 21st-century skills when teaching, students will be able to apply what they learn in the classroom. The focus of the delivered lesson should be on the quality of students’ work, not the quantity. The class should be student-centered, so they can improve their skills and understand the content successfully. It should be self-directed, so students can enhance their critical thinking and develop their problem-solving skills.

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The video has shown how the 21st skills are essential and important to students. A focus on creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration is essential to prepare students for the future. Teachers’ help and input are used to illustrate the skills and knowledge students need to succeed.

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21st Century Skills  is a way of rethinking how students learn. Creativity, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, problem solving, media literacy and information literacy are all a chain to maintain complete effective education.

The skills presented in the video shows the importance of amplifying the successive education which target the internal of students and aid them on finding their own ways through their own developed strengthened abilities. Educators assistance is the key concept for applying the 21st century skills and modelling them successfully.

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21st  Century Skills

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As educators in the 21Century skills, we are accountable to
teach our students the skills to be equipped and prepared for the new innovations and change the world are forcing in the meanwhile. The video has shown the seven 21 century skills that students must have and some can develop very easily with the use of technology in his/her life. Most of these skills our students have because of the availability of resources. Students can apply core knowledge plus problem solving skills from exposing to media literacy and independent learning using information literacy. Collaboration and communication comes from the easy access to media literacy.

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We can see from the video that technology played a major role in the improvement and change that happened in learning. Being a digital citizen opens new horizons for you and makes you a better learner in a better learning environment.

If we take a close look to these skills with respect to technology, we find that communication and collaboration are not limited to time and place (anytime learning around the globe). Also having the knowledge of digital media tools improves learning by giving new means of building information and constructing knowledge (constructivism). Furthermore, it helps in developing critical thinking and creativity to learners.

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The 21st century skills video illustrates the six main elements or skills for teaching and learning in the 21stcentury which are critical thinking, media-literacy, communication, collaboration, information literacy and creativity. These skills build our students to become successful learners and support their education. Moreover, technology play a huge influence in building or teaching and learning these skills in our education systems. Therefore, teacher will always find a way to integrate these elements with technology in her/his lesson and learning environment. I believe these skills are the light of building a wonderful education system where students and teacher are happy and enjoy learning and teaching.

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21st Century Skills Word Cloud

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21st century skills video has shown some important elements that the learners are required to have such as creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, media literacy, information literacy and problem solving . Today most of the students are getting these skills from their learning environment. The education has been differently, where all students around the world are using technology in term of learning and studying new information. Technology has a big role in today’s education which intergrade the learners to be interact with the lessons. As well, the teachers, are applying lots of learning by doing, where the learners are able to understand the lessons with several options which are provided by the teacher such as papers, audio, video and presentations.

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The students need to be long-life learners; that can solve problems, innovate, communicate, collaborate, and use technology efficiency.

It is not about how much students know, it is about how the use this knowledge to benefit themselves and the world.

I think, as teachers - with the pressure - we tend to teach the students, so they can pass the exams, we forget that our main job is to help the students to reach their potentials, so they support the community.

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I saw the 21st Century Skills video . i loved it and it covers few of 21st century skills that our students need which are creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, media literacy, information literacy and problem solving for learners. Today’s technology provides the ability for students with diverse learning styles to engage in their classes. However, Learning by doing is now become a vision for every educational institute . We don’t want to teach our students using only Textbooks in this century, it will not work .because with the varied resources available today and having the 21st Century Skills, students can get closer to the source of information than they could before. also, they can analyze the results using new techniques, collect data themselves, present their results, and discuss these results with experts from around the world without moving . so its very important for us to study he 21st Century Skills and "If a student can't learn the way we teach maybe we must teach the way they learn."

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word cloud  on 21st century skills on Padlet.

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21st Century Skills - what do children in the 21st century need to learn to be literate citizens as adults? 

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21st Century Skills - what do children in the 21st century need to learn to be literate citizens as adults? 