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Giusic. Italy
Giusic. Italy
The skills to be promoted are those indicated by the European framework of eight key competences:
Communication in the mother tongue; Communication in foreign languages; Mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology; Digital competence; Learning to learn; social and civic competences; Spirit of initiative and the entrepreneurship; Cultural awareness and expression.
I think that a teacher should consider social competences first of all, but digital skills, critical thinking, communication are very important too.
Lorena, R
Lorena, R
HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK
HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK
I totally agree with Roger...

I Think that the all the competences skills should be focused in our classrooms. I agree with the focus presented by Roger in the video.
I Think that the all the competences skills should be focused in our classrooms. I agree with the focus presented by Roger in the video.
Sevasti Milona, Gree
Sevasti Milona, Gree
I agree with Roger. In my opinion all the skills are important and should be cultured in parallel with knowledge.
Roberta Condomitti - Italy
Roberta Condomitti - Italy
irreproachable!
Maria Luisa, Italy
Maria Luisa, Italy
Only if teache
Susanne, Sweden
Susanne, Sweden
Knowledge less important - you can find it. Learning to learn and skills are the most important things we can learn our students. 
Cristina Muntean, Romania
Cristina Muntean, Romania
I agree with Roger Blamire.
I think we have to focus on new tchnologies, communicative competences, collaborative work , communication, etc.
Livia, Italy
Livia, Italy
I think that a teacher should consider social competences first of all,  but digital skills, critical thinking, communication are very important too.
Miguel Ángel Frías, Spain
Miguel Ángel Frías, Spain
I agree with Roger. The tools to focus on:
- Social skills-emotional intelligence
- New technologies
- Collaborative work
- Critical thinking
- Autonomy, learning to learn
- Communicative competence (languages)
- Entrepreneurship
- Competences in science and technology
ANTONINA PUSATERI (ITALY)
ANTONINA PUSATERI (ITALY)

The need to provide young people with the necessary basic skills and to improve improve the results of individual results is an essential essential part of EU strategies for growth and jobs. Starting from the spontaneous knowledge must rebuild the school and show a map of formal knowledge, using different teaching devices, active structuring tasks, where to exercise experience and solve problems. The skills to be promoted are those indicated by the European framework of eight key competences:
Communication in the mother tongue; Communication in foreign languages; Mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology; Digital competence; Learning to learn; social and civic competences; Spirit of initiative and the entrepreneurship; Cultural awareness and expression.
ANTONINA PUSATERI (ITALY)
ANTONINA PUSATERI (ITALY)
Stefania Altieri
Stefania Altieri
21st Century skills
Personal and social responsibility
Critical thinking
Collaboration
Communication
Digital competences
Claudia GUINA - Romania
Claudia GUINA - Romania
Yes, I agree!

Isabel Cachada
Isabel Cachada
I agree with Roger ide
Diego Padoan
Diego Padoan
I am fully agree with him.  The today classrooms and multinationality and so students are daily involve to conprend and help others that are in difficulties. So collaboration and work in a team in indispensable for future job placement.
Lucia, from Catania- Italy
Lucia, from Catania- Italy
I perfectly agree with all the innovative input shown in the video. By using these skills in our classroom, we give the pupils the chance to develop a critic and a widen active competence.
Suzana Pimentel
Suzana Pimentel
I totally agree with the presented ideas in the video.
Anabela Fernandes
Anabela Fernandes
I agree with Roger. The 4 C's are essential for the training of 21st century students for a changing society. With these skills we are giving them tools to become active and constructive citizens in an increasingly demanding age. It seems to me important that the student become the center of the learning process.
However, it is necessary to start with the teachers. It is in them and in political power that the obstacle to change lies. Maybe this is due to historical or social reasons, economic, educational policies and even some insecurity from the teachers.
As someone said, we are twentieth-century teachers, teaching in 19th-century classrooms to 21st-century students. Something is not right!
Derya, Turkey
Derya, Turkey
I totally agree with the presented ideas in the video. Especially creativity and critical thinking should be vtal competencies that we aim to achieve in our classes. However, governmental policies affect in what way we teach in the class. As predicted, national exams that are in multiple choice format and aim to assess memorization skills(!) decides waht ans how we teach in the lessons. 
Gabriella, Italy
Gabriella, Italy
The video highlights the importance of various skills needed in modern society, such as creativity, responsibility, critical thinking, digital skills ... To develop these skills by students is necessary that there are competent teachers prepared not only for pedagogical aspects but also to those related to ICT, for evaluation, for the organization ....
The professor. Roger Blamire outlined a complete and interesting picture!
Violeta, Lithuania
Violeta, Lithuania
Yes, I agree. 
Raffaella Papini
Raffaella Papini
I'm totally agree.
Loredana, Italy
Loredana, Italy
The video is  very interesting, full of truth; I'm  totally agree.
Valbona, Albania
Valbona, Albania
saporattet laborators in everykind of types where every student can find himself and can find more time to learn and to make what he want's
Nadia, Italy
Nadia, Italy
i agree completely but I am  discouraged for the final step: assessment. What is the sense of everything if assessment is difficult  and there is little chance to change the way to assess?
Marta, Poland
Marta, Poland
Life Long Learning is a key to successin the world of rapid  changes. Learning to learn, flexibility, critical thinking and many more mentioned in the video - very well done summary!

Elisabetta, Italy
Elisabetta, Italy
Present students are future adults; the critical thinking, the ability to work together, the sense of responsibility, the ability to communicate in an appropriate language, the digital skills are skills that are being built day by day, step by step through trial and error. The disciplines should be the means by which to develop these skills
Mariagrazia, Italy
Mariagrazia, Italy
Teaching and learning in a new perspective.
Lucia Letizia, Italy
Lucia Letizia, Italy
The video is very interesting, full of truths and insights. We must walk the road of change, be flexible to teach the flexibility and the ability to face and overcome the challenges with a critical spirit and collaboration capabilities.

I believe that all powers are necessary and among their employees: are taught to learn to promote critical thinking and so on for all the skills.
Adina,Romania
Adina,Romania
Not all the skills and tools we had when we became teachers are needed today. So we must focus on our own improvement in order to be good teachers.
Sure, he's totally right. Want to find out more about the tools he uses!
Sure, he's totally right. Want to find out more about the tools he uses!
Mirela, Romania
Mirela, Romania
It is important to learn how to learn.
Carlo, Italia
Carlo, Italia
Enjoy learning!!!!
Adriana, Romania
Adriana, Romania
we all know  the importance  af the 21st century skills, and we, as teachers, we have the moral obligation to pass them to our students- creativity, communication, collaboration , are essentiale in the society we live.
Ayşegül SONER , Turkey
Ayşegül SONER , Turkey

I think personal and social responsibility is the most important key among the 21st century skills. Because if you take your learning responsibility, you can gain all the other skills, too. So my motto is ''Don't give me the fish but teach me to fish...''
Patricia, Germany
Patricia, Germany
I personally value the key skills of the 21st century that were stated in the video. They should be definetely available to all learners but we also should accept that every learner will have a certain tendency toacquire  specific skills... (>>inclusion)
The combination of all 6 key skills will make sure that life long learning is possible for every learner. 

Atanasija, Croatia
Atanasija, Croatia
Our professional development should help us redesign the methods and learning activities to build the skills and competencies of the 21st century such as communication, cooperative learning, problem-based learning, critical learning, self assessment as well as peer assessment and application of knowledge using ICT. 
Rossella, Italy
Rossella, Italy
We are conscoius of 21st century skills but we work as in 20st century because students must pass INVALSI tests.
Cristina Antal - Romania
Cristina Antal - Romania
Almost all the 21th century skills are based on technology. Creativity, communication, collaboration, digital competences are to be developed throught technology. This is how the classroom looks like in the future.
Margarita M., Spain
Margarita M., Spain
I agree with Roger Blamire. 21st Century is the Century of globalisation thanks to technology. The teacher role and the student role in the teaching-learning process have changed. We must develop the eight key competences and the 21st century skills (for students and for teachers).  All of them are important for the successful of teaching-learning process. 


Nunzia, Italy
Nunzia, Italy
I think need  imagine new classroom to improve skills and ability for our students
Afroditi, Greece
Afroditi, Greece
Learning to learn.
Learning to fail and not give up but continue.
I am teaching for many years at a school where computing technologies are considered important aid for the educational relationship
I am teaching for many years at a school where computing technologies are considered important aid for the educational relationship
Emiliana, Italy
Emiliana, Italy
Creativity, communication, problem solving, curiosity, ICT literacy, I think teachers should help students to develop these skills to become better people in the future.
simone, italy
simone, italy
the part I prefer is when he explains the importance of helping students to enjoy learning

Ciao
Ciao 
María, Spain
María, Spain
Thanks to Roger for thinking and expressing himself so clearly. Creativity and critical thinking are essential in such a global world, but we will do nothing without communicating and collaborating with each other. Personal and social responsibility are basic for any learning and digital competences are key to put the rest of the skills together. I couldn´t agree more!
Elvia, Italy
Elvia, Italy
I do agree with Roger and I hope that those teachers who are still wary of technologies could change their minds and start taking into account he EU 21st Century Skills
Rosa/ Italy
Rosa/ Italy
What a beautiful video! He says what I think and what I constantly repeat to my colleagues on the new way of teaching.

Célia B., Portugal
Célia B., Portugal
Personally, I bet on creativity since I notic ethat at schools students do not seem to be curious and skilled in terms of solving problems. i ADVISE
Daniela Dimitrova, Bulgaria
Daniela Dimitrova, Bulgaria
Extremely useful video! It gives us food for thought. I agree with everything seen.
Magdalena M, Spain
Magdalena M, Spain
In this regard, an increasing number of schools around Spain are making their shift from knowledge-based education to education centred on competencies. The government has also given a push to accelerating the process with the new educational law. However, much more is still to be done and as teachers we all need to contribute as much as we can.


Monica, Italy
Monica, Italy
What a beautiful video! He says what I think and what I constantly repeat to my colleagues on the new way of teaching.

Serkan, Turkey
Serkan, Turkey
It is a very useful and inspiring video. 21st century skills summarized perfectly. I totally agree with Roger. We need emphasize all these skills both for the students and for ourselves as teachers.
Betül, Turkey
Betül, Turkey
To me especially, personal responsibility is very important skill. I agree that Teachers shpoul take responsibility for one's learning in and beyond school
Cristina. Spain
Cristina. Spain
From my point of view, the ideas presented in the video completely coincide with the need to reflect on the current society and its needs. From there, we can begin to adapt the bases to achieve a pioneering and quality education. To do this, teachers must help their students to develop correctly in society. This is achieved by offering them tools and skills that they can use throughout their lives
Mª Rosario. Spain
Mª Rosario. Spain
The description of both skills and abilities are indispensable as the axis of teaching. I agree with the rapporteur.
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M. Elif Dönertaş, Turkey
M. Elif Dönertaş, Turkey
All through the presentatios what we can see clearly is altough everything else has changed considerably, learning environments and approaches have not. 21st century skills are  the curicial summaries of everything that must change for a better future education system. So I agree with Roger!
Šárka, English teacher, Czech
Šárka, English teacher, Czech
21st century skills:
CREATIVITY- should have a lot of space at school. During the creation process people very often learn to reach their goal / bring an idea to life and can self-direct their learning without being pushed by the teacher.

COMMUNICATION - 
necessary for life, relationships, work. social skills

COLLABORATION - my experience has shown that we must give SS enough opportunities for team work to learn skills for successful cooperation and shared responsibility. Plus, collaborative work makes SS really work and be active. I can see the difference.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY + CITIZENSHIP

foreign language - majority of people need it in their adult life
cultural awareness- people must be more tolerant
digital competence
- tech will make your life and career easier if you master it
mathematical competence - WHY?
I really do not know- I live pretty nice without deep Maths knowledge, most of secondary-school Maths I have forgotten. Basic counting and % left in my mind is what I need. I would let SS choose levels of Maths to study. 

PEER ASSESSMENT 

Martyna, Poland
Martyna, Poland
I am certain that all the abilities and competences mentioned by Roger are important in the 21st century education. They are indispensable both for students and teachers.
Katarzyna, Poland
Katarzyna, Poland
I absolutely agree with Roger. He presented main key competences for the generation in 21 century. I think they are the most important skills and abillities in them.

Katarzyna, Poland
Katarzyna, Poland
I absolutely agree with R
Rosana, Spain
Rosana, Spain
I agree with the exposicion by Roger because I think that the first step to try to change education is we adapt to the real world and its needs.

Those needs are refering to grow up the competences and skills, which can help to our students in their life in society.

For this reason, teachers should show the best way to learn this competences.
First of all we need
 First of all we need to develope critical thinking, followed by collaborative collaboration. we might remodule our way to teach and to learn.
Fadime Sezgek
Fadime Sezgek
I totally agree with Roger. As he said; The skills of Creativity communication, collaboration, digital compatance, critical thinking, learning to learn is very important not only for students but also for the teachers in the classrooms. To engage the students and to motivate them easily teachers should develop 21st century teaching scenarios

Sanela Jukic, Croatia
Sanela Jukic, Croatia
We have to make it work for all those skills, they are all very important.
Right now I'm involved in project called ATS2020 where we are actually working on learning scenarios for developing those skills.
It's a bumpy road but we are getting better.
Samanta, Italy
Samanta, Italy
I think that creativity is a very important skill to develope because it allows to solve the problems and to create new views, adapting to the fast changing of the reality. Then I think communication could be a strategic lever to change the thoughts and behaviours.
Inga, Latvia
Inga, Latvia
I think that critical thinking is the skill that must be developed more than others (at least in my school) because too many students tend to believe everything they see or hear, and never anayze the source of information.

Emanuela, Italy
Emanuela, Italy
I think that today we should focus on effective communication between us and studnts and  among students,self-learning, good cooperation with peers, be able to deal with conflicts, motivation, emphaisation.
Ruben, Pt
Ruben, Pt
1. What skills should we develop in the classroom?
For me the 21st century skills are:

· Self-learning

· Critical Thinking

· Communicative collaboration

· The domain of computer resources.

· Creativity


2. Should the curriculum focus on content or skills?

Above all, it should focus on being simple in its application, having the possibility of interdisciplinarity and then concentrating on competences, with content being a means to reach them.
Maite Fresnillo/Spain
Maite Fresnillo/Spain
I agree totally with the ideas expressed by Roger and I consider that we should take advantage of the new methods we have at hand but, on the other side, I find that among my students there are always some who delegate responsibility: for them is easier not to do any extra effort because they prefer to be given everything done  but then, they complain because they feel bored. I hope that future generations who have started at school with this spirit will adapt to that in the correct way.
Judit Xaus, Catalonia
Judit Xaus, Catalonia 
I totally agree with the skills presented by Roger because I think that if we want to change education, first of all, we have to adapt to the real world and to nowadays reality. That means that memorising is not as important as it used to be, since I can have all the years and important facts of a concrete historical event in a second after having googled it. Perhaps, today, it would be more important to understand those historical events, and to see in which way they have modeled us. 
For that reason, and for lots more, I think that we nowadays students have to learn those competences and skills, that help them think, learn, gain autonomy, know how to manage and lead a group...
Gabriela Sandru, Romania
Gabriela Sandru, Romania
Digital competences, collaborative and communicative competences, critical thinking and creativity, responsabilit - both personal and social -  are the most important skills we should focus on in our teaching.
Matilda Bajkova/Macedonia
Matilda Bajkova/Macedonia
First of all, the crucial questions about what skills, competences, knowledge should we as a teachers focus on in our classroom? I must stress that, 6 th parts of critical thinking are the most important priority we as a teachers must to know to manage continuously.
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Songul KURT/Paris
Songul KURT/Paris
'21st century competences  are so crucial. These skills are  problem  solving, critical&creative thinking, self-actualization,decision taking,collaborating, respecting others, learning to learn is key sompetences in this digitally socialized environment, in this century.
Aida Lumshi -Albania
Aida Lumshi -Albania
Critical Thinking , solving problem must stimulate student to perform core skills
Keratso. Greece
Keratso. Greece
Critical thinking is the first priority we have to evaluate for our students. The information that young  people will have to manage this century will be huge and changing continuously. Adoptation, creativity and  competivity are priorities that young people will have to evaluate in order to be able to live in the 21st century.
maria grazia giammorcaro
maria grazia giammorcaro
Critical thinking is a kind of thinking characterized by mental processes of discernment, analysis, and evaluation.

Betül, İstanbul-Turkey
Betül, İstanbul-Turkey
As the 21st Century skills initiate active learning and higher thinking order skills  , it  enables learners to decide their learnings so the roles change and the adaptation of this change  requires personal and social responsibility. In addition -, these skills focus on creativity so the learning process becomes more meaningful for the individual learners. Producing someting includes many elements so collaboration on a specific mission provides peer learning in a social learning environment. Finally ,the constructive assessment part of this process  provides development of works.
Tolga ERGÜN, Turkey
Tolga ERGÜN, Turkey
I think digital competences is the nest of all the other skills in 21st century. 
Concetta, Italy
Concetta, Italy
Creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, personal responsibility, digital competences are important skills in the nowadays society. The 21 century skills for teacher: teacher professional learning, understanding ICT in education, organization and administration, pedagogy, ICT, curriculum and assessment.
Luka from Croatia
Luka from Croatia
All of the skills/competences mentioned are important. But I think that the metacognitive ability of learning how we learn is probably the most important one, because it informas all the other skills. If you aren't aware of your own learning style, or what pace is best for you, you will have trouble handling any kind of new learning - including all the other competences listed in the video above. However, I must add that, while the classrooms should change to accommodate new skills/competences, some things, like teaching values of respect for other cultures/life choices, embracing diversity, emapthy, etc. should never go out of style, regardless of the ICT revolution.
Anna Chiarenza, Italy
Anna Chiarenza, Italy
I agree with Roger's opinion, we can't think that we can keep teaching without taking into consideration the new competences and skills the 21st century needs. Unfortunately, curricula not always allow us to focus on what are the needs of the present time. Another problem the Italian school faces is that there isn't enough cooperation among teachers, especially High School one, yet. 
Liliana Álvarez Blanco, Spain
Liliana Álvarez Blanco, Spain
Obiously, I agree with Roger´s presentation. All of us, have to think about what we what, what they need, why and how we can get it. We can´t focus only in contents, we have to take into account t21st century skills.
Konstantina, Greece
Konstantina, Greece
I agree with Roger's presentation  about 21st century skills. We should aim at a balance of skills according to our students' needs. The 8 EU key competences  are very important. It depends to teacher's goals and  student's need to which skills, competences and knowledge should we focus on in our classroom.
Daniela Millini, Italy
Daniela Millini, Italy
It's impossible not to agree with Roger's focus. The 8 EU Framework of Key Competences is probably easier to adapt to our school goals as they can be partly connected to specific school subjects - which is not what we should do, but it's what we have been doing since we had to fill in a "Certificato delle Competenze". I think that the 6 ( or 4) 21st Century 'Skills'  show more clearly their absolute 
interconnection and overlapping through all the single content subjects we pretend to teach in our schools. 
Ma Dolors Virgili
Ma Dolors Virgili
Salou, spain

I totally agree that commmon key competences are essential to use when programming our course syllabus, in fact we already take them into account when preparing tasks for our students. Creativity, groupwork and problem solving are the most important ones if we want students achieve great products.
Dora Romano
Dora Romano
(Matino, Italy)
Roger shows a very complex society where EU key competences (learn to learn, communicate, active citizenship, and so on ..) are strongly required in people in order to cope with rapidly changing cultural, social and economical scenarios. Teachers should be visionary people to help students to be self-confident and "well-equipped" going towards the future world.
Alessandra Savona, Italy
Alessandra Savona, Italy
I totally agree with what Roger has said about the key competences our students and we teachers should achieve to be 21st century citizens. We should always keep in mind what the EU skill competences are. They are vital for everyone's formation. It's true, we don't know what the world will be like in the future, but one thing we know we cannot ignore what skills our students need today.
Arminda Pereira, Portugal
Arminda Pereira, Portugal
The 21st century skills are a set of abilities that students need to develop in order to succeed in the information age. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills lists three types:

Learning Skills
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Collaborating
Communicating

Literacy Skills
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
Technology Literacy

Life Skills
Flexibility
Initiative
Social Skills
Productivity
Leadership
New Skills for New Jobs
These skills have always been important for students, though they are particularly important in our information-based economy. When most workers held jobs in industry, the key skills were knowing a trade, following directions, getting along with others, working hard, and being professional—efficient, prompt, honest, and fair. Schools have done an excellent job of teaching these skills, and students still need them.

To hold information-age jobs, though, students also 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.


Oksana Na
 Oksana Nagorna (Poltava, Ukraine)
"21st century key competences" that`s what should we start with to recreate the system of education in furure, that`s what should every school teacher be aware of. 
María Concepción Pomar Rosselló (Palma de Mallorca, Sp
María Concepción Pomar Rosselló (Palma de Mallorca, Sp
I agree with what Blamire says that with nowadays' technology, some "old-school" skills like memorisation are not so important like years before to accomplish with your job, I think nevertheless that memorisation for example is a very good skill to develop in terms of brain training and development, therefore for me it is a pity that such skills are not required anymore (or at least not that much) in nowadays' schools. On the other hand, it is undeniable that the new technologies facilitate teaching skills such as coding much more easily and efficiently - skills that are highly on demand and that would mean a change in the lives of many children with a vocation. 

The EU, as Blamire points out in the video, states eight key competences to master for this 21st Century, which are: 

1. Communication in the mother tongue.

2. Communication in foreign languages.

3. Mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology.

4. Digital competence.

5. Learning to learn.

6. Social and civic competences.

7. Sense of initiative and entrepeneurship.

8. Cultural awareness and expression.

The digital era requires a strict mastery of communication competences via the social networks and sharing tools, promoting netiquette and self-control and underlying the value of a good SEO and personal branding practice. At the same time, in the new schools some other skills besides communication have become far more important as compared to the schools of old, like creativity, initiative, courage to take planned or calculated risks, learning from your own mistakes, self-evaluating your own creations, collaboration, being flexible and able to play different roles, respect to oneself and others, being able to work efficiently through digital tools, being able to analyse information and its sources critically, safety and responsibility online, problem-solving, decision-taking, well-founded argumentation, reaching your own conclusions, learning to learn, and self-actualisation. All these skills require new forms of assessment and testing, as Mr. Blamire points out. 

Marília Bação (Portugal)I agree with Roger Blamire and I think we should think very carefuly about what we are teaching to our students and also how we're teaching. Are they learning? Are they envolved? Is it useful(now or later)? When we take a look at the image belowwe can see that thinghs are changing: creativity?Digital competences? What places do they take in our classes? What do we REALLY have to change? Are school prepared? Are the policies prepared? Ifwe take a loook at the examinations at school do they follow the european orientations? There is still such a big gap .
Marília Bação (Portugal)I agree with Roger Blamire and I think we should think very carefuly about what we are teaching to our students and also how we're teaching. Are they learning? Are they envolved? Is it useful(now or later)? When we take a look at the image belowwe can see that thinghs are changing: creativity?Digital competences? What places do they take in our classes? What do we REALLY have to change? Are school prepared? Are the policies prepared? Ifwe take a loook at the examinations at school do they follow the european orientations? There is still such a big gap . 
Vincenzo Russo (Italy)
Vincenzo Russo (Italy)
The focus presented by Roger is quite useful and comprehensive.
Communication is obviously an important competence, but critical thinking is a habit that precedes it (one must know what to say before how to say it, I guess) and, so, should be firmly acquired.
Respect for others' roles and ideas, and for silence, is maybe one of the most essential ingredients for a profitable cooperation in every field of life.
Lareta Žubrinić, Croatia
Lareta Žubrinić, Croatia
In my country, the awareness and teachers knowledge on the skills of the 21st century is increasing rather slowly and still, the great emphasis is on learning content and remembering facts. 

Teachers know that the new skills need to be developed, but the existing educational system does not comply with the development of students in the 21st century. 

I agree with the Roger’s statement that teachers also should develop all these skills or there will be no progress in our classroom. For me,  the crucial skills are critical thinking and personal development. The skills mentioned by Roger can be linked to the learning zones (webinar Jose Louis Fernandez).
 I will translate Roger’s video and present on the next teaching council in my school.

Joana, Spain
Joana, Spain
I absolutely agree with Mr. Blamire. If we (teachers and school) do a deep assessment about what, where, how, when and why  we focus our learning process on contents or skills, we will realize our new way. We should work as a community for building lifelong learners at our schools. 
In regards to our knowledge net we need to take into account the creativity, communication, collaboration, digital competences, critical thinking and personal responsibility as the skills of this 21st century learning world. 


Alicia Serrano,Spain
Alicia Serrano,Spain
We have to plan the process of teaching and learning from a new look that favors the development of the skills of the twenty-first century. That is why we, the education professionals, have to reflect on all the elements of the teaching and learning process, starting from the characteristics and context in which we develop. Thus giving an adjusted response to the real needs, in the development of the new skills.
Mairead Ireland
Mairead Ireland
All of the skills and competences have a place in our classrooms to ensure students and teachers prepare ,plan and achieve their personal goals in an ever changing world. Being creative , being able to communicate effectively, having the ability to work collaboratively and using technology effectively will allow students and teachers alike take personal responsibility for their learning ,creating classrooms fit for purpose in the 21st century
Cristina, Spain
Cristina, Spain
I totally agree with the ideas of Roger Blamire, we must take into account these key skills to make our teaching better and adapted to the 21st Century. As our world is changing, the competences and skills required for both teachers and students should change too. New skills, new competences are required for everyone in order to be competitive and to succeed in this world.

Shukufa Najafova Azerbaijan
Shukufa Najafova Azerbaijan
I watch the video and must say that agree with Roger on this point of view. To my mind skills are important in our lives. To my mind 21st century skills should be compulsory for all the teachers. If we don't change then how we could change our students points of view for the furture?
Thomas, Germany
Thomas, Germany
I think all Skills are important. Personal skills, social skills, and collaboration skills as well as the skills finding own solutions 
elisa
elisa
all skills are important. However, critical thinking and personal and social responsibility should always be present in each single activity. 
Brigitta, Romania
Brigitta, Romania
I consider that, in order to be able to teach students 21st century skills, teachers should realize that collaboration is of utmost importance among teachers as well. It is important to realize that we do not teach a certain subject but educate individuals with the wish to make them able to learn on their own, and even more than that, be willing to learn and embrace knowledge all the time. :)
Valérie, France
Valérie, France
I think all those skills are becoming vital in teaching/learning. If I should concentrate on one or two I think I would choose communicating and groupworking
Almudena- Spain
Almudena- Spain
A summary of this kind on 21st century skills should be compulsory for all and every teacher. I consider it hard to focus on just one competence  but if I have to I will focus on Critical Thinking. It is essential.
Alice - Italy
Alice - Italy
I think we should focus on the develop of digital skills and group activities. It's important for students to learn how in a team. And it's also very important to learn how to use technology for their purpose. 
Regimantas Kaikaris, Lithuania
Regimantas Kaikaris, Lithuania
Like all other course members, I agree with Mr. Rogers. We can see that compiuters and other digital equipment changing our life and work in all institutions. I agree that 21st century is age of ICT and it's so important to develop digital competences to our pupils. We - teachers have to let studens fing out information by themselfs using technologies.
Luciano Dereani
Luciano Dereani
I completely agree with Roger. However I find difficult to evaluate some competence (such creativity, collaboration,...) in an objective way and respecting beaurocratic school's rules.
Maria Grazia Valenti
Maria Grazia Valenti
Italy, Palermo
I am totally agree with Roger. All the 8 competences and skills are very important for the successful of the our students. The goal of the 21th century skills for teachers are preparing students for their future life!
Catello de Sinno, Itay
Catello de Sinno, Itay
  I think we should focus on all the 8 competences and help our students to develop them.But the most important is learning to learn as a lifelong process in order to be a citizen always able to give his own contribute to the social life.
Maria Papadaki Crete-Greece
Maria Papadaki Crete-Greece
"Using digital resources to have fun." I was happy to hear that! All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, after all!
Luigina Branà
Luigina Branà 
Italy
There was really a lot to reflect on in Roger's presentation! I think we should focus on all the 8 competences in our classroom. Personally I think I should work more on the development of the social and civic competences and on the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, as I think they are the competences I neglect more, and on which I'm not accustomed to focus on.
Achilleas, Cyprus
Achilleas, Cyprus
Really great presentation.

Marko Brajković, Croatia
Marko Brajković, Croatia
Some time ago, I've finished "Competences for 21th century schools" course. To sum up - key competences are - learning to learn, digital competence, communication in mother tongue, communication in foreign languages... and important skills are - critical thinking, problem solving, decision taking... I try to focus on this competences and try to  improve their skills. 
Anna Bonaccia
Anna Bonaccia
I agree with Roger when he says : we have no idea what the world will be like .  We must prepare our student  for this new world. Digital tools enable me and my students to communicate in a foreign language and collaborate with other students in Europe in Etwinning projects , helping  us to develop our creativity in digital presentations . I think the most important skill is learning to learn and using digital tools students become able to improve their knowledges  whenever they want.

Maria Antonietta Italy The school promotes the evolution of society.Guarantee rebirth, growth, evolution must think a good school.Creativity school, communication, exchange of ideas, critical thinking, responsibility ,digital competence are skills of each teacher should be able to teach and to make internalize their students with interesting methodological strategies
Maria Antonietta Italy                        The school promotes the evolution of society.Guarantee rebirth, growth, evolution must think a good school.Creativity school, communication, exchange of ideas, critical thinking, responsibility ,digital competence are skills of each teacher should be able to teach and to make internalize their students with interesting methodological strategies
Susana, Portugal
Susana, Portugal
A very clear and interesting presentation by Roger Blamire. All around us the world is changing in so many different ways that´s is hard to get along. We can´t control everything and we can´t predict the changes and what the future will bring us. It will include technology without doubt so “Digital Competences” are crucial, but to face such among of changes “Creativity”, “Critical Thinking” and “Personal Responsibility” are also crucial for students and for teachers. I guess “Collaboration” and ”Communication” are skills we already work in school, but concerning the other skills, there is still a lot to do. 

Carmen Avramescu, Ro
Carmen Avramescu, Ro
Federica, Italy
Federica, Italy
I think that all skills are very important but  COLLABORATION is the key skill for students that will be future world citizens. Another very important skill that I think teachers must focus on is personal responsibility.
Victoria Ostankova, Russia
Victoria Ostankova, Russia
We all know that we have to follow the school curriculum, and sometimes it covers only educational topics i.e. what students should know or should able to do by the end of the session. I guess we as professional teachers have to adapt it or even modify it a bit in accord with the 21st century skills. The list with the European competencies comes in handy when I prepare for my classes as I integrate some of them into my lesson plans. 
HULYA BAL - TURKEY
HULYA BAL - TURKEY
These skills can be developed. But we do not apply these qualities in education, so this application is very difficult. Especially with digital citizenship studies these skills can be improved. We can make additions to 21st century skills:Leadership, cooperation and adaptability, creativity and innovation, global citizenship, communication, productivity and responsibility, information access, analysis and synthesis, entrepreneurship. (http://fclturkey.eba.gov.tr/index.php/fcl-nedir)
Katarzyna Siwczak
Katarzyna Siwczak
What skills, competences, knowledge should we focus on in our classroom? Definitely the ones mentioned by Roger Blamire: creativity, communication, collaboration (including flexibility), digital competences, critical thinking and personal responsibility (the idea of learning to learn). I would like to emphasize the last concept as, it seems to me, if a student does not realise he/she has to take responsibility for his/her own learning process, as teachers we cannot get too far…
Maria Rosaria. Italy
Maria Rosaria. Italy
This video is very engaging and it widens teachers' barriers. 
Marzia, Italy
Marzia, Italy
The most interesting part of Blamire's presentation is for me the stress on teachers skills. We should face and enjoy the 21th century challanges improving our competences trough keeping open and collaborative 
Alice, Spain Good explation Roger. In education we must focus not only on students but also on teachers. and this sense the skills, how they learn, how we teach, which tools or material we use, how we feels....
Alice, Spain Good explation Roger. In education we must focus not only on students but also on teachers. and this sense the skills,  how they learn, how we teach, which tools or material we use, how we feels....
Barbara, Genoa (Italy)
Barbara, Genoa (Italy)
A wonderful presentation by Roger Blamire. The attention to developping personal skills and a longlife learning attitude in the students must go together with the consideration of the students' different personalities and attitudes towards learing.
Inga, Lithuania
Inga, Lithuania
I am glad that our school works a bit differently already. Our teachers and I try to see every child in the class and adapt the material to his/her needs. The curriculum is not in the first place. It is very important for us how our students feel at school. If they are happy and healthy, have no problems at home (social, psychological...) and their friends, then they are ready to be taught. If they have problems we try to support them and provide complex help of professionals. We can expect any results of personal growing only then, when children are and feel ok. And we do work with 21st century skills more than with teaching material. 
Maribel, Spain
Maribel, Spain
What is more important, the content or the skills?
In a world where you can get information with the click of a mouse, I really think that the way you manage to get that information is what matters.
That's why focusing on competences should be far more important than coping with the established curriculum.
Salva, Spain
Salva, Spain
I agree with Roger's presentation. In today's society, both teachers and students must be prepared to cope with global demands and challenges such as the economic crisis or the care of the environment. We must equip our students with key competences to respond to these problems. However, many teachers have the feeling of not being able to teach in this society because the changes are so fast that we do not know how to work them.
Ana Fonseca (Portugal) I really liked Roger’s video as I totally agree with him. I think that we should focus ourselves in developing the students’ creativity because this is the way we help them to broaden their horizons and make them more participative in their learning process. Obviously that communication and collaboration and closely related to creativity development as it is by using their oral and written skills and by collaborating actively with other in the learning process they will be creative. And, not to mention critical thinking. If they develop their opinion, express themselves, participate actively in their learning they get critical thinkers of their and others’ work. And, of course they also develop their responsibility. As far as digital competences they are essential in our technological world. So, this is in connection with my point of view for future classrooms.
Ana Fonseca (Portugal) I really liked Roger’s video as I totally agree with him. I think that we should focus ourselves in developing the students’ creativity because this is the way we help them to broaden their horizons and make them more participative in their learning process. Obviously that communication and collaboration and closely related to creativity development as it is by using their oral and written skills and by collaborating actively with other in the learning process they will be creative. And, not to mention critical thinking. If they develop their opinion, express themselves, participate actively in their learning they get critical thinkers of their and others’ work. And, of course they also develop their responsibility. As far as digital competences they are essential in our technological world. So, this is in connection with my point of view for future classrooms.
Valeria Viola, Italy
Valeria Viola, Italy
That's true: These are not only competences to be acquired by students but they should be also teachers'!!!
Maria Calà, Italy
Maria Calà, Italy
Roger's thoughts are good food for thought. In particular, I share the importance of critical thinking, for teachers and for students, since we all need to grow responsibly in our daily work. Students if properly guided, prodded, motivated and interested parties can develop their creativity and personal responsibility, even with the help of ICT.

The key issues are flexibility and openness, respect for the rhythms and modes of learning of students, consistent with the social world. I believe that today's students need to acquire all the eight European powers and their cross-cutting issues order to be able to master and use in the world of life, precisely because of the 21st century society is changing rapidly, and you have to adapt to its changes.
Gabriela Bruno. Portugal
Gabriela Bruno. Portugal
Giving students the ability to develop 21st century skills is a challenge we must take every day. All our work should be thought in order to help our students to learn how to learn.

Laura, Spain
Laura, Spain
The development of 21st Century skills is a challenge of today's teaching. We don't have to focus only on contents acquisition but on skills development, and how they can communicate, evaluate... etc. those skills. I think that implies a different look at the teaching of subjects in an isolated way. We have to find ways to stablish links between subjects and that implies a different way to work with colleagues.
Ezgi Ulutan, Turkey
Ezgi Ulutan, Turkey
I think that the 21st skills mentioned by Roger Balmire is very important. Firstly, the teachers should aware of the skils for teachers. They try to improve themselves to get 21st skills. They should leave to think traditional way. I think that critical thinking is focused on in my classroom. Because my pupils have difficulty to connect between real world problem and subjects. 
Elvin Aliyev
Elvin Aliyev
Assessing these skills is important as teaching is these  skills. How we can assessing this skills?

21st Century Skills
21st Century Skills
This project provides a platform for educational professionals (educators, teachers, principals, librarians) working in schools in the European countries involved to communicate, collaborate, develop projects and share; In short, feel, and indeed be, part of the most exciting learning community in Europe.



The eTwinning project promotes collaboration between schools in Europe using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), providing support, tools and services that facilitate, in any disciplinary area, the creation of partnerships, short or long term. So it is with this project that I can - be an integral part in the construction of my self-training plan; - provide my students with a diversified, shared, creative and collaborative construction of knowledge; - promote in me and my students multidimensional competences, integrating quality requirements and know how to act with pertinence, mobilize in a given context; Know how to combine, communicate, transpose; Learn to learn and learn to learn and to engage. In this way the skills of the XXI century are reflected in my teaching practice and with the Etwinning project in an initial phase in the personal component of each student and educator where each individual solves a problem with his personal character, through the knowledge, his Know how , Their culture, their experience, their personality, their will, and then on a collective component, that is, interaction with others, sharing, research ... and with the existing resources (databases, Etc.), thus contributing to the construction of collective and participatory knowledge.



"(...) being able to read does not define literacy in today's complex world. The concept of literacy includes computer literacy, consumer literacy, information literacy and visual literacy. In other words, literate adults must be able to obtain and perceive the information in different media. What's more, understanding is the key. Literacy means being able to perceive new ideas well to use when needed. Literacy means knowing how to learn. "







STRIPLING, Barbara K., ERIC, 1992, in CTAP Information Literacy Guidelines K-12, http://ctap.fcoe.k12.ca.us/ctap/Info.Lit/Guidelines.html
Este projeto disponibiliza uma plataforma para que os profissionais da educação (educadores de infância, professores, diretores, bibliotecários) que trabalham em escolas dos países europeus envolvidos, possam comunicar, colaborar, desenvolver projetos e partilhar; em suma, sentir-se, e efetivamente ser, parte da mais estimulante comunidade de aprendizagem na Europa.

O projeto eTwinning promove a colaboração entre escolas da Europa, com recurso às Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC), proporcionando apoio, ferramentas e serviços que facilitam, em qualquer área disciplinar, a criação de parcerias, de curta ou longa duração. Assim, é com este projeto que posso - fazer parte integrante na construção do meu plano de autoformação; - proporcionar aos meus alunos uma construção diversificada, partilhada, criativa e colaborativa do conhecimento;  - promover em mim e nos meus alunos competências pluridimensionais, integrando exigências de qualidade e de Saber agir com pertinência, mobilizar num dado contexto; Saber combinar, comunicar, transpor; Saber aprender e saber aprender a aprender e empenhar-se. Desta forma as competências do século XXI refletem-se na minha prática letiva e com o projeto Etwinning numa primeira fase na componente pessoal de cada aluno e educador onde cada indivíduo resolve um problema com o seu cunho pessoal, mediante os conhecimentos, o seu Know how, a sua cultura, a sua experiência, a sua personalidade, a sua vontade, e depois numa componente coletiva, ou seja a interação com os outros, partilha, pesquisa... e com os recursos existentes (bases de dados, material adequado, etc.), contribuindo deste modo para a construção de um conhecimento coletivo e participado.

“ (...) ser capaz de ler não define a literacia no complexo mundo de hoje. O conceito de literacia inclui a literacia informática, a literacia do consumidor, a literacia da informação e a literacia visual. Por outras palavras, os adultos letrados devem ser capazes de obter e perceber a informação em diferentes suportes. Além do mais, compreender é a chave. Literacia significa ser capaz de perceber bem ideias novas para as usar quando necessárias. Literacia significa saber como aprender".



STRIPLING, Barbara K. , ERIC,1992, in CTAP Information Literacy Guidelines K-12, http://ctap.fcoe.k12.ca.us/ctap/Info.Lit/Guidelines.html
Natasa Todosijevic, Serbia
Natasa Todosijevic, Serbia
I totaly agree with thoughts of Roger Blamire, but it`s not always  an easy job to do.
Anna Maria Tomaselli from Italy
Anna Maria Tomaselli from Italy
Very interesting the 21st century skills for teachers:
-teacher professional learning
-understanding ICT in education
-organisation and administration
-pedagogy
-ICT
-curriculum and assessment.
Katerina,Geece
Katerina,Geece
We ought to try to acquire the skills described by Roger Blamir so as to motivate our students ,lead them to their self-exploration  and enable them  to the 21st century required skills.
Claudia Massaregli from Itlay
Claudia Massaregli from Itlay
The key issues are the flexibility and openness. Very important is the respect of the rhythms and modes of learning of the students. Key is consistency with the social world and the global reality in which we live
Roger's ana
Roger's ana
Roger
Roger
Rosy, ItalyRoger's analysis is very interesting and innovative and I totaly agree with him. What I like is the idea of learning to learn, that is the starting point for teacher's and student's collaboration
Rosy, ItalyRoger's analysis is very interesting  and innovative  and I totaly agree with him.  What I like is the idea of learning to learn, that is the starting point for teacher's and student's collaboration 
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Roger's 
Dijana Jovanovic, Serbia
Dijana Jovanovic, Serbia
I completely agree with Roger's analysis, here the most important thing is to know facts and to learn everything from the books. There are little if none requirements of skills or critical thinking. 
Nicoleta - Romania
Nicoleta - Romania
Unfortunately, Romanian school go more on competition than cooperation par. There are few teachers were trained to teach skills viata.Sunt agree with Roger
Riccardo R. - Italy
Riccardo R. - Italy
The reality is sad: italian school builds students able to live in school contests. No one cares about life-long educational skills. We have a lot to meditate...
Filipa, Portugal
Filipa, Portugal
How objective and clear can a comunication could be?  This much! Thank you Roger. I totally agree with your vision. I only add one thing more. Schools and teachers must work with their peers and make a network of knowledge to spread the goof practices and to manage some problems that lie down in the sfere of influence of several areas of a comunity. It will be easier to aplly these competences if the community network is sharpen and well oiled as a structure.

Monika/Hungary
Monika/Hungary
I agree with the with the focus presented by Roger in the video
The'list of digital skills ; this is the order of importance: 1. Google Docs and Microsoft Office, 2.Basic photo editing 3.Basic video editing, 4.Setting up to wifi networks, 5.Setting up a website domain, 6.Backing up to the cloud, 7.Converting files format.
8.On line banking, 9.Branding yourself, 10.HTML code and basic coding. 2030: I think, that coding will be the most important e-skill.
Alessandra -Italy
Alessandra -Italy
I  appreciated so much Roger's analysis....I'm reading  other posts and  many of them reflect my thoughts, I complete agree with Bartolomeo Corbo and Antonio Marinello
Alessandra
Alessandra 
Antonio Marinello, Italy
Antonio Marinello, Italy
I think that Roger's analysis is really thorough. I agree with Amelia De Chiara and I believe that students need to acquire all of the eight european competence and the relevant cross-cutting themes Roger set out in his talk. I have started working on these skills and competences with my students: 
1) Learning to learn (personal responsibility)
2) Communication
3) Digital competence;
4) Critical thinking;
5) STEM competences
6) Collaboration
Elisabetta nepa
Elisabetta nepa
Sono assolutamente d'accordo con Blaimer e dobbiamo fare di tutto per rendere il nostro creativo gli studenti, critici, collaborativo.
Bartolomeo Corbo - Italy
Bartolomeo Corbo - Italy
I'm very very agree with mr. Roger Blamire. Italian school is too much based on knowledge. Our students need to develop new skills to work together, to resolve complex problems, to communicate clearly. And the teachers need to train and refresh to 
to meet the new challenges of the future.
Elisabetta Mauro, Italy
Elisabetta Mauro, Italy
Roger's reflections are good food for thought.  I especially share the relevance of critical thinking, for teachers and for students, since we all need to grow more responsible in our daily work.  We all live on this planet and reality can not be ignored simply because we are expected to prepare for exams.
Maria Maddalena Pallotta, Italy
Maria Maddalena Pallotta, Italy
Roger's very interesting video.

I think that never before in this historical period, the company changed so much faster. New technologies provide infinite knowledge, communications are in real time with any part of the world and all this happened in a very short period of time. I think we teachers find ourselves faced with an unavoidable choice: change teaching methods to keep up with the times otherwise the school will no longer be a functional place of learning to pupils' needs.
Rita, Italy
Rita, Italy
Very good reflection about the 21 st skills, in my teaching experience I have noticed that students if  appropriately guided can develop their creativity and personal responsability,also with the help of ICT, more difficult is to teach them how to develop critical thinking.
Breda, Slovenia
Breda, Slovenia
What to be asses determines what will be taught...
I think the assesment is very important, it it won't change, there will be no real changes in the everyday classrooms
Daniela Patri, Italy
Daniela Patri, Italy
 I agree with the video: key competences, like creativity communication, collaboration, digital competence, critical thinking and personal responsibility are very important for the education. 
Olga Martins, Portugal
Olga Martins, Portugal
It was a very interesting video. The key competences referred by Roger Blamire (creativity, communication, collaboration, digital competence, critical thinking and personal responsibility) are fundamental and of extreme importance for the successful students' future.
Teachers should be able to provide students with all of them, as well as the correct tools to help and create their own future in a globalizing world.
Jose Bueno, Spain
Jose Bueno, Spain
I totally agree with the ideas of the video, we must take into account these key skills to make our teaching better and adapted to the 21st Century.
MARIANTHI ARVANITIDOU- GREECE
MARIANTHI ARVANITIDOU- GREECE
Globally competent teachers have the ability to effectively teach students whose families come from all over the world and to impart global competencies in each of their students. They do so by being able to communicate in multiple languages, especially with students and families who speak a different language at home, and by being able to create a classroom environment that values diversity and global engagement, specifically by teaching students to learn from and respect diverse cultures and perspectives, engaging students in discussions about global issues, and filling their classrooms with global resources (such as books, maps, and websites) that they encourage students to use. 
Athina, Greece
Athina, Greece
It was really a nice video. Teachers and policy makers have to work hard to introduce the EU key competences in the school curriculum. I think that the key point is collaboration!!!! 

Alessandra Murgia, Italy
Alessandra Murgia, Italy
We cannot help our students to develop creativity, the ability to adapt themselves to different situations, flexibility in collaborating with others or critical thinking if we  ourselves are not prepared to apply the same skills to meet our students’ needs. Roger Blamire’s message was clear, the world is changing and we have to change with it, taking responsibility in the changes of our community

Giusy, Italy
Giusy, Italy
As our world is changing, the competences and skills required for both teachers and students should change too. Roger focused on EU key competences that we all should bear in mind. New skills, new competences are required for everyone in order to be competitive and to succeed in this world. Learning to learn is the most important thing to remember.
Alessandro /Ital
Alessandro /Ital
Yes, I totally agree with Roger, students must understand why they study, why it's important to acquire 21 skills, so this is a great challenge for teachers. One of way is to change own teaching method, it is not enough use a traditional lesson, students must be involved in their learning process. Only in this way students can be able to understand how much is important studying.
Amelia De Chiara, Italy
Amelia De Chiara, Italy
The 8 Competences and the Transversal Skills are all important to help our students to face real life and to make their way through our society. Everything starts with the “learning to learn” competence: it’s important for students but it is also necessary for teachers. We all must be lifelong learners so teachers have to learn what is a competence-based approach and how it can be implemented in their daily practice. Teacher’s role has to change but most teachers continue to be stuck on traditional methods. Our school has included key competences in its curriculum, we have “Unità di Apprendimento” based on competences and transversal skills but not all teachers know how to implement them in daily practice. It’s a long way, it’s not simple but there are many teachers who want to improve their professional skills.
Nina, Ukraine
Nina, Ukraine
In my opinion, competences mentioned by Roger Blamire are essencial for successful future of the students. In my country many teachers still teach students memorize facts and reproduce them and as a result graduates do not find years spent at school so useful as they would like them to be. I think teachers need to focus rather on skill than on content because learning to learn and critical thinking will definitely help students to find necessary and appropriate content. 
Nina/
Nina/ 
Aleksandra, Croatia
Aleksandra, Croatia
I agree with Mr. Roger. I think we should adapt the competences and skills of different situations in the classroom.
Anna Chiarenza, Italy
Anna Chiarenza, Italy
I think that the future challenges should be faced  with flexibility, creativity and good knowledge both of the mother-tongue and foreign languages.  Students need to develop skills and competences but most of all to be able to critical thinking. 
Marián Reguera, Spain
Marián Reguera, Spain
Mr Blamire has had a look at the important Key competences, now part of our curricula.  During all his speech I have been thinking about eTwinning, where we can easily fulfill our needs.
Ankica, Croatia
Ankica, Croatia
I think we can all agree that 21st century skills require a lot of student involvement. While we all have students who are willing to get involved, do the work on their own, take responsibility, there are those who like taking the easy road. It is quite a challenge for us the teachers to prepare them for the 21st century world. 

Simona Costaru, Romania
Simona Costaru, Romania
We live in a changing world. We must be prepared for every kind of challenge we can meet. It`s about children and growns, it`s about teachers and students. All of us must be prepared. I think that is the role of the school: to create, to improve, to develop, to learn, to motivate, to involve. We have to prepare our students for life, for future, for following their goals.
Laura Serban, Romania
Laura Serban, Romania
I think we should focus on motivating our pupils in finding their goals in nowadays life. They can discover themselves with our help and we need to encourage them to develop skills that will make them enjoying living in the society.
Paola Iorio. Italy
Paola Iorio. Italy
 Teachers must change their mind. They need to provide context to develop students' skills. E-twinning projects help in this.
Antonietta, Italy
Antonietta, Italy
I agree with Roger. 21st century skills must be developed in a sort of balance as they provide the right background for future citizens. In particular students need to develop the key competences in order to be able to build their own project of life. 
Maria Grazia Licandro - Italy
Maria Grazia Licandro - Italy
I agree with Roger Blamire, Senior Advisor to the European Schoolnet, who showed us the six main themes through which you can achieve mastery of the eight key European competences: - Creativity, Communication, Collaboration, Digital competence, Critical Thinking, Personal responsability .

In fact it is easy to develop these themes in any disciplinary or interdisciplinary activities, if the teacher knows the value, if you know how to use ICT, it is a good director and organizer, whether it is a good pedagogue, if he knows where the ICT and prepared a curriculum and adequate assessment.
Magdolna, Hungary
Magdolna, Hungary
I've found Roger's presentation on the 21st skills very informative. In my classes, I intend to develop the 4C skills and also put an emphasis  on learning to learn. 
Margarida Almeida, Portugal
Margarida Almeida, Portugal
It is true that we must give importance to the competences of each student. Exploring competencies and developing them is essential and it will contribute to their success.
Clara Abegão, Portugal
Clara Abegão, Portugal
I agree with Roger´s presentation. In a global society characterized by complexity,
unpredictability and interdependence, individuals (teachers and students) must be
prepared to face increasing challenges. Issues such as rapid social change, scientific and technological advances, economic and cultural globalization, asymmetries and conflicts (we have just taken a course about the challenges on the
integration of migrants in the classroom!), as well as the generalized socio-economic crisis and the serious environmental problems emerge as global challenges that
require a reflexive and holistic approach. It is in this context that emerges the urgency of providing individuals with skills, not only of a technical and cognitive nature, but also of a personal and relational nature, that allows them to adapt to a complex and constantly changing world. Essential life skills
that enable individuals to understand and participate in the knowledge society,
mobilizing through them the knowledge, how to behave and knowledge to solve the
problems with which the changing world of today constantly confronts them.
Ana, Portugal
Ana, Portugal
I strongly agree with the focus presented by Roger in the video.
As a History teacher I try to focus my teaching practice on many skills that I think that are very important for 21st century like criativity, communication, collaboration, digital competences, critical thinking and personal and social responsability. All of them are very important but it is extremely important for students to build knowledge using argument, reasoning and analysis and even make decisions by themselves. Students shouldn't wait for others to educate them, they need to learn how to educate themselves using the tools they find, by other words: learning to learn.
Ana Ventura, Spain
Ana Ventura, Spain
As a teacher of English as a foreign language I try to focus my teaching practice on many skills; creativity, communication, collaboration, digital competences and so on as I think they are extremely important for our 21st century students. I think teachers must focus on teaching skills rather than content because they are a lot more important, significant and useful in our society nowadays.
Antónia Brandão PT
Antónia Brandão PT
Since i’m more interested on innovation on classroom and school i read a lot about new skills required to “survive” on the future that we don’t know what will be, that’s why i’m trying to prepare my students, and myself, to accept changes and to don’t take anything, like for example a job, for granted.
Be able to adapt, adjust, be flexible, understanding, communicative, collaborative, keen of technology with digital competences, divergent and creative, all can be important to the unknown future.Critical thinking, curiosity, be able to investigate all can be decisive. School and teachers are often frightened by all that is new and it shouldn't. Mr .Blamire is right, but i value also ability to memorize. It is still important
Some important skills:
Creativity
Communication
Literacy of all kinds creativity
Collaboration
Digital competences
Critical thinking
Learn to learn 
Self actualization 
Be a citizen 
Gaia, Italy
Gaia,  Italy
Critical thinking is basical, even of all the competencies are required to deal with the challenges of our society. 
Working as a foreign language teacher, I usually focus on communication, citizenship and technological competence. The problem is that, at the present, the school paradigm is still inadequate, with the majority of activity addressed to curriculum knowledge and traditlional lessons.
Maria Anna Casoria
Maria Anna Casoria
As a foreign language teacher, I focus on: communication, collaboration, and creativity.
As tools I use also the new technologies: digital competences.
Kristina Kaučić, Croatia
Kristina Kaučić, Croatia
It is not an eaasy thing to find the right balance. All 8 competences are very important but sometimes strict curriculum does not allow teachers to pay more attention to all of them. Creativity ,andcritical thinking , collaboration and ICt competences can easily be achieved in eTwinning projects.
Andrea Checchetti, Italt
Andrea Checchetti, Italt
New skills are required for the new century. We must provide teaching staff the tools to create a context in which to develop these skills
Vanesa, Croatia
Vanesa, Croatia
I agree with Roger Blamire. These 6 competencies are crucial for our students, but some of them are difficult to achieve in our school system
Mari del Mar. Excellent video. this is very challenging for me because I normally focus on the content in my classes. I want my students to learn the contents and be able to communicate in the second language. I think is time for me to start working on these skills but I think we need a better designed curriculum. this is going to be challenging but worthy.
Mari del Mar. Excellent video. this is very challenging for me because I normally focus on the content in my classes. I want my students to learn the contents and be able to communicate in the second language. I think is time for me to start working on these skills but I think we need a better designed curriculum. this is going to be challenging but worthy.
Joan Ginard, Spain
Joan Ginard, Spain
I enjoyed this video a lot. I fully agree with Mr. Blamire.
I have seen or read other sources talking about 21st century skills, and I think this video is great: simple and well structured. I find difficult to pick any idea without mentioning the rest.  


Serena, (TV), Italy
Serena, (TV), Italy
This presentation is very detailed and exhaustive. I agree that a curriculum should focus more on skills than on content and I have been trying with my colleagues to follow these principles, to plan a curriculum based on the 8 key-competences maintaining a balance between content and skills. We have particularly focused on creativity and collaboration, since we work with young pupils of the Primary School. It is very challenging and demanding.
Anna Eckerlein, Germany
Anna Eckerlein, Germany 
I can agree with Blamire's analysis of 21st century skills. Thinking about the competences he mentioned, I was surprised about how much needs to be changed. To me it's not enough to just add paragraphs to school curricula. More obligatory, theoretical objectives can be quite discouraging for teachers and therefore will have a hard time to be put into practice. So lots of things need to be done in training teachers already at university level (and of course practicing teachers). It's inevitable to discuss the problem of assessment and I find myself wondering how to solve that problem too. So I would be interested in getting to know details/tools of how to assess in the 21st century. 
José Luis Saavedra, Spain.
José Luis Saavedra, Spain.
I totally agree on these six competencies. But perhaps the most difficult to teach, by our educational model so closed in high school, are creativity, collaboration and critical thinking.

We are waiting for a long and exciting, that we are initiating and we will see where it takes us, I hope that to port, which will mean that we take to our students from an education of the past to an education of the future.
Lilianna, Poland
Lilianna, Poland
I do agree with Robert and I try to develop all 8 key competences in my teaching .
We should keep a balance between content and skills.
Rossella, Italy
Rossella, Italy
I found the video very interesting, particularly the last part about new skills of teachers. Which the skills of 21 century are, is for me clear, and I'm trying to change my learning approach sso that my students can develop them. But I find diffuclt the assessment of social skills. 
Amael Kervarrec (Colombia)
Amael Kervarrec (Colombia) 
I'm tatally agree but we have to focus on some skills which are corresponding of our skills or thinking. 
for example in class of science I'll insist to developp critical thinking , self leraning and upgrade and certainly communictaion 
Concetta Rapisarda Italia
Concetta Rapisarda Italia
Roger Blamire was very clear, he explained very well what are the skills for the 21st century. I think that the technology along with the creativity and effective communication in the mother tongue and in foreign languages are very important. They are necessary for the citizens of the future.
Eleni, Greece
Eleni, Greece
21st century will be highly demanding on skills. I think especially Critical thinking and learning how to learn are basical skills for the future. Knowledge is essential in order to build skills and skills are needed to achieve knowledge. The one should assist the other. 
Betül, Turkey
Betül, Turkey
All of the six skills that our expert has mentioned are really significant to be remembered to get our pupils involved. Teachers should take responsibility for their learning in and beyond school and they are going to learn to learn. >This point of view is very impressive.
Michelina Mosca
Michelina Mosca
I particularly enjoyed collaboration because I think only working together we can grow.
Luigi Alterani, Aversa, Italy
Luigi Alterani, Aversa, Italy
The main problem is that the current educational paradigm is inadequate and does not give our young people incentives, methods, tasks and solutions that enable them to develop their intelligence critically, to analyze and evaluate the information they receive.


Ana Prados, from Spain
Ana Prados, from Spain
Excellent explanation of what those 6 competences consist of. I particularly enjoyed creativity (evaluate risks when doing a job) , collaboration (adopt a role, respect other people's thoughts and disagree) and critical thinking. But still a long way to go until we fully incorporate them into our lessons. 
Melissa Esposito, Naples, Itay
Melissa Esposito, Naples, Itay
I agree with Roger: communication in the mother tongue and in foreign language and mathematical competences are skills that students need supported by technology. Technology has to support creativity, communication, collaboration both for students and teachers.
Donatella De Gregorio, (NA) Italy
Donatella De Gregorio, (NA) Italy
I think we should focus on skills, competences, knowledge at the same time when we plan a curriculum in our classroom. Sometimes it's difficult to balance content and skills to be acquired and assessing them is even more challenging.
RAVAS Centa Mariana/Romnia
RAVAS Centa Mariana/Romnia
Creativity, innovation, critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and collaboration are all a part of a 21st century math learning experience. 
Dulce Freire, Isabel Cruz e Vítor Silva - Portugal
Dulce Freire, Isabel Cruz e Vítor Silva - Portugal
We agree with Roger. The 4 C's are essential for the training of 21st century students for a changing society. With these skills we are giving them tools to become active and constructive citizens in an increasingly demanding age. It seems to us important that the student becomes the center of the learning process.

However, it is necessary to start with the teachers. It is in them and in political power that the obstacle to change lies. Maybe this is due to historical  or social reasons, economics, educational policies and even some insecurity by the teachers.
As someone said, we are twentieth-century teachers, teaching in 19th-century classrooms to 21st-century students. Something is not right!

Olga Keramida/Greece
Olga Keramida/Greece
Fully complete Roger's presentation...
Marina Gurina (Ukraine)
Marina Gurina (Ukraine)
I agree with Roger. I think the skils of learning to learn, creativity, critial thinking, knowledges of mother and foreign languages, communicative skils, collaboration and learning to survive are more important in modern cociety.
Jan De Craemer / Belgium
Jan De Craemer /  Belgium
The keycompetences framework is a great tool. I am also particular fond of og the DIGCOMP framework
Jack Gilbert, United Kingdom
Jack Gilbert, United Kingdom 
 The two themes I want to highlight in terms of 21st century skills are collaboration and cultural awareness.  Today collaboration can mean so many different things, including working with people from both a face-to-face or virtual format. Technology has enabled students to collaborate virtually, which is increasingly becoming the case in higher education. Grantham’s chapter in ‘Teaching with Tablets’ highlights how the role of a teacher has shifted from a source of information to facilitating the learning process.  With this in mind I also want to highlight the importance of cultural awareness which technology plays a signficant part in. Projects like eTwinning can provide a new means for learning about cultures which I believe plays  a huge importance within the 21st century . 
Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece
Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece
I fully agree with everything that Roger presented in the above mentioned video. I also believe that knowledge hasn't changed since previous years. What has changed is skills and ways we absorve knowledge. Students nowadays know far more about technology than we as teachers do. We have to follow them by creating an environment friedly to them. 
Cristina Fuertes, Spain
Cristina Fuertes, Spain
I agree with the video, the problem is school follows the curriculum and the structures of the last century.

Stelios Anas
 Stelios Anastassopoulos, Greece
What Mr. Roger Blamire refers in new skills needed really make sense in new technology era. I believe that the main target for us should be to develop in students of a life learning attitude and way of thinking. Whichever means helps in this purpose is valuable for a teacher. Learning to learn, I think, is the base. A combination of knowledge and competences, therefore, are the prerequisites for this development and for skills's augmentat as well.
Anne Fischer, Berlin
Anne Fischer, Berlin
Skills and Competencies needed:
- digital literacy
-critical thinking
-strong communication
-STEM competencies
-cross cultural understanding and awareness
-creative 

As robots, AI and Augmented reality become more and more prominent in our world, we need to learn how to invent and create and communicate as most of the  blue collar jobs and skills of the future will be taken over by machines and we will be left with jobs that require more creative thinking and deep understanding. 
CHRISTOS, GREECE
CHRISTOS, GREECE 
I AGREE WITH EVERY SINGLE WORD  OF ROGER, BUT WE ALL MUST THINK WHAT EDUCATION WE NEED, WHAT PEOPLE WE WANT TO MAKE, I THINK ART AND MATHS ARE VERY IMPORTANT FOR EDUCATION AND COLLABORATION IN THE SOCIETY. CHILDREN SHOULD LEARN TO WORK, COMMUNICATE, COLLABORATE AND SHARE THEIR IDEAS. WE NEED TO LEARN HOW TO BE EFFECTIVE AND BECOME MORE AND MORE CREATIVE AND SKILLFUL.
CHRISTOS, GREECE
CHRISTOS, GREECE 
I AGREE WITH 
Behlül AKYOL, Turkey
Behlül AKYOL, Turkey
In the world of borders, In the future, school teachers need to communicate, collaborate, be creative, use and enhance digital competencies. Good practice and sharing of technologies is very important.
Chiara C., Italy
Chiara C., Italy
This video is very interesting. I reflect about in the future school teachers need to communicate, collaborate, be creative, use digital competences, develop critical thinking to understand a world that become more and more complex and reflect about responsibility involved.


Maria, Portugal
Maria, Portugal
Indeed I do agree with all Roger has talked about. We have more than ever to motivate and engage our students and ourselves. We should promote learning and teaching scenarios facilitators of the 6 sets/ groups of competences for lifelong learning.
By promoting:
Creativity we allow the students  to express on their own and produce something by themselves or/and with others.
Communication we exercise speaking and writing skills – adapting our language to different situations and new forms of expression and discussions, using ICT, apps , social media, for instance.
Collaboration by working together ( pair/group work)on a task to solve a problem, to reach an objective we implement flexibility, responsability . 
Digital competences – Digital operational skills: making things work, organising, managing, filing, evaluating information and learning to protect privacy, to respect other people , that is as  Roger says , help them to learn to be safe and responsible.
Critical thinking  - we help them to assess options, make decisions, contest, analize.as  the world is becoming more and more complex with a lot of information, this is a really important skill to be developed.
Personal responsability – will help them learn to learn, enjoy learning,  be responsible for future learning, reflecting on their own learning, adapting , becoming the person they want to be, being a citizen of the world.

Giuseppina Serini, Italy
Giuseppina Serini, Italy
I fully agree with the above by Roger Blamire

Miriam Scafati, Italy
Miriam Scafati, Italy
The new competences that are challenging  learning and teaching are the future  of school, the future of education, the future of students.
Cristiana Ziraldo
Cristiana Ziraldo
I really appreciated listening to Roger and I found the video clear and to the point.  Very effective indeed.   We should focus to all the skills he mentions CREATIVITY, COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION, DIGITAL COMPETENCES, CRITICAL THINKING, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, yet we cannot do it individually, these skills should be shared by all colleagues within your department and within the school.
Jolanta, Poland
Jolanta, Poland
From my point of view, personal responsibility is very important - for students and for teachers. But convincing people that they learn for themselves is very hard in our education reality aimed at standarised results.
Simonetta, Italy
Simonetta,  Italy
I totally agree . At the moment I'm struggling to create a collaborative environment with  my students  despite the traditional way of learning they are used to. 
Cecilia, Italy
Cecilia, Italy
I found very interesting in this video the focus on teacher's competences: often we ask to our students something that we miss.
Patrizia Sebastiano, Italy
Patrizia Sebastiano, Italy
New tewchnologies are changing the way we learn, work, live. So  it needs change the teaching to develop learner' competences.
competence is combin
 competence is combination of knowledge, sklls, attitudes and values. interesting combination, and the stones too.
Isabel Graça
Isabel Graça
To “teach” students the 21st century skills we need to change the entire educational system, regarding contents, the way we work and assess, the “classes” time, the teachers time, the space…


Creativity, communic
 Creativity, communication, collaboration, digital competences,
Ana Ventura
Ana Ventura
I completely agree with Roger's focus on the video. I think teachers must adapt our teaching methodologies to the constant changes in society so that students can achieve significant and long life learning.
Iliyana, Bulgaria
Iliyana, Bulgaria
Nice video. The 21st century skills are very important to be learned by students as well by teachers. In my opinion, the skilled people can find any content inside and outside school and curriculum. 
Ana Pinheiro
Ana Pinheiro
I have had occasion to mention the competences of the 21st century and the need to plan our classes with these competences in mind. Only in this way do we prepare our students for the future.A curriculum should cover content and activities. This is another change that has to happen .....
Ioannis Velonakis, Greece
Ioannis Velonakis, Greece
In a modern classroom the teacher has to be responsible for more things than the traditional transmitting of some aspects of a specific subject. In general, I agree with most of what Roger says in his presentation about the skills, the competences and the knowledge which are necessary for the citizens of 21st century. In my opinion, science knowledge, understanding and skills are almost equally important as Mathematic and Information Technology skills and the ability of communicating effectively in mother language as well as in foreign languages. Also, learning how to learn, negotiation, communication and communication skills combined with the ability to work collaboratively and interchange roles within a group are key competences in our society.       
Dalia, Lithuania. Yes, very useful and makes me reflect on my work and activities in class
Dalia, Lithuania. Yes, very useful and makes me reflect on my work and activities in class


Manuela Vieira, Portugal
Manuela Vieira, Portugal
I think this video is very important and I absolutely agree. It shows the different ways of working with our students- develloping, skills, competences and  of course knowlegde. I think that it is important a combination of all of this in order to create a link between the todays work with the future classrooms.  Teachers needs to pratice and learn, shools need money to improve tecnology.  So we need to keep on improving the 21st century skills
Aarón, Spain
Aarón, Spain
competence is combination of knowledge, sklls, attitudes and values. interesting combination, and the stones too.
L_biro, Italia
L_biro, Italia 
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BURCU YÖRÜK
BURCU YÖRÜK
TURKEY
 I think this video will be to help  me professional compentece. ıt is very helpful for me
. 21 century  learning skills  sums up very successful.




Tushar Chaudhuri, Hong Kong
Tushar Chaudhuri, Hong Kong
I try to apply a 3C model to all that I teach. Connect, Collaborate, Construct (or Create)
Isabel Nunes, Portugal
Isabel Nunes, Portugal
Powers of the 21st century behind the content of this video:
Creativity
Communication
Collaboration
Digital competence
Critical thinking
Personal responsibility
I think it is, of course, that must be created opportunities for students to develop these skills in the classroom, but also teachers should develop these skills in their professional development.
I believe in the pedagogical model of learning based in projects, in which students learn how to plan, the search / find, organize, produce, working in a group collaboratively to communicate... So, I would say that the curriculum/ school/ the teacher should promote the development of the powers of the 21st century and of values (particularly in the context of active citizenship), supported by learning the content of discipline/ multidisciplinary.
Elena B, Ital
Elena B, Ital
We are preparing students for jobs that don't exist yet. The new challenge is to develop 6 types of skills:
- Personal and social responsibility
- Critical Thinking
- Digital competences
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Creativity.
It's a big change but step by step we can find a way.
Rosa Calvino
Rosa Calvino

The 21st century skills are a set of abilities that students need to develop in order to succeed in the information age. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills lists three types:


Learning Skills

Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Collaborating
Communicating

Literacy Skills

Information Literacy
Media Literacy
Technology Literacy

Life Skills

Flexibility
Initiative
Social Skills
Productivity
Leadership
- See more at: https://k12.thoughtfullearning.com/FAQ/what-are-21st-century-skills#sthash.W55Aqh82.dpuf
Carol (Italy)
Carol (Italy)
Challenging skills! Thank you so much!​
Angelina Alberico, Italy
Angelina Alberico, Italy
Roger's video was very interesting and useful, because the skills allow us to have a global view and to prepare the students to have: Communication, collaboration, digital competences, critical thinking, personal responsibility and assessment, which are the cornerstones of skills of the 21st century and will help the students, future citizens, to understand the complexity of the world, take initiatives, putting them constantly test to try and select the right solutions.
Mary Koleta- Greece
Mary Koleta- Greece
It is a challenging world that demands challenging skills. We, as teachers, ought to , first,  develop a deep understanding of 21st century skills, in order to be able to assist learners in the process of acquring them.
Athanasia Papachristou, Greece
Athanasia Papachristou, Greece
I think that a focus on the 4Cs: creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration is essential to prepare students for the future.

Stavroula L, Greece
Stavroula L, Greece
Roger is right. t is challenging and very demanding for the teachers. I agree that the most important thing is that we, teachers, must develop the 21st century skills so that we can help our students to develop their skills:
-Creativity-Communication-Collaboration-Digital competences-Critical thinking-Personal and social responsibility.​
Arianna from Italy
Arianna from Italy
21 century skills
Creativity
Communication
Collaboration
Digital competence
Critical thinking
Personal responsibility
Tonia C.(Gragnano-Italy)
Tonia C.(Gragnano-Italy)
Roger's video is very clear and points out the importance of developing the XXI century skills in our students. In my experience  a natural way to achieve this goal is   by  eTwinning projects.
Angela, Romania
Angela, Romania
Because I am in a multicultural school, my focus is on collaboration, critical thinking, communication and personal responsability. 
Sunay Efe,Konya
Sunay Efe,Konya
I really agree with the ideea that we need to prepare students for life long learning.  I am always trying to give them freedom in choosing their place and adapt the environment for a good learning. Will change the way of approaching the discipline and ability to relate to students who definitely more digital skills than in past generations.
Serenella Silenzi, Italy
Serenella Silenzi, Italy
I really thank Roger for his excellent video. He was very clear and detailed for both students and teachers. In particular I would like to underline the importance of critical thinking and digital competence for both the categories, because re-thinking our learning/teaching is necessary if you want to improve, it is not a waste of time but it is a must. Finally a wise and competent use of ICT may be a very useful scaffold for creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, personal & social responsibility, but also for professional learning (EUN e.courses!!!), organization and administration, pedagogy, curriculum and assessment.
Nehir ÇABUKER, Turkey
Nehir ÇABUKER, Turkey
I think the presentation of Roger is very usefull to understand more what we need to do. Icould say that its critically important that we have learn/ teach how to and what to learn. And also we need to analyse the teacher's role for the future education.
ISABELLE SQUILLACI–BARI (ITALY) I agree more with Rogers presentation which describes the education of the 21st century.Communication, collaboration, digital competences, critical thinking, personal responsibility and assessment are the school success’s skills - 21st century skills are crucial for students and teachers.
ISABELLE SQUILLACI–BARI (ITALY) I  agree more with Rogers presentation which describes the education of the 21st century.Communication, collaboration, digital competences, critical thinking, personal responsibility and assessment are the  school  success’s  skills - 21st century skills are crucial for students and teachers.
Fulvia, Italy
Fulvia, Italy
The eight European Core competencies are all important, although I think that, even if they are cross-curricular,  some skills are better suited to a discipline in particular, rather than to others. The real challenge is to learn to teach skills and build a truly shared Common Core.
Ksenija from Serbia
Ksenija from Serbia
I thank Roger for so useful presentation, and completely agree with him. It is very important to develop all the skills that he mentioned. I usually try my best to do so. But students must change their minds first and not to learn for good marks but for their own knowledge and how to use what they know in real life
I think with the evolution reached today, inevitably, the teaching and the relationship with the students will suffer 'changes. Will change the way of approaching the discipline and ability to relate to students who definitely more digital skills than in past generations.
I think with the evolution reached today, inevitably, the teaching and the relationship with the students will suffer 'changes. Will change the way of approaching the discipline and ability to relate to students who definitely more digital skills than in past generations.
MARIA, ITALIA
Mirela Babić, Croatia
Mirela Babić, Croatia
Thinking critically, learn how to learn
Marchilia Volini Kendall, Naples, Italy
Marchilia Volini Kendall, Naples, Italy
I appreciated the explanaition of the transversal skills (see attachment), but I would have liked an answer to the open question "how do we assess a student's contribution to a collaborative task? 
Maria Giuseppa Sallemi, Italy
Maria Giuseppa Sallemi, Italy
Students need to know how to use their knowledge and skills-by thinking critically, applying knowledge to new situations, analyzing information, comprehending new ideas, communicating, collaborating, solving problems, and making decisions.”
Learning for the 21st Century emphasizes the importance of incorporating information and communication technologies into education from the elementary school.
Experiences that are relevant to students' lives, connected with the world beyond the classroom.
Alexia, Athens Greece
Alexia, Athens Greece
Students must learn how to learn together with their teachers.
Gian Luca Cossari, Italy
Gian Luca Cossari, Italy

The 21st century skills are functional to good teaching for significant learning; flexibility on the spaces and new tecnologie.Ciò makes explicit greater development of skills; I got to experience it to school through, for example, the EAS.
Gian Luca Cossari, Italyu
Gian Luca Cossari, Italyu
Maria Rosaria Tafuro, Italy
Maria Rosaria Tafuro, Italy
I agree with Roger 's statements that focused attention to the fact that the pressure exerted by the sudden changes, imposes new requirements on the role of teacher and student in the classroom and in the world. The teacher is no longer the transmitter of knowledge, but it should educate and guide the student towards the new  21st century skills emerging in recent years which have  a different organization and set of skills with different priorities compared to the ones of the recent past




Ida, aly
Ida, aly
The 21st century skills are strongly related to the possibility to have more open and flexible spaces and to technology. I experimented teaching in schools with and without technology and flexibility  and I found the context very different to enhance the growth of competences.
Višnja, Serbia
Višnja, Serbia
Skills are more important, they are durable, while content can be upgraded later, if students learn how to find and examine the facts. But content is also important, and it shapes the way we are thinking, so there needs to be made a balanced mixture. Perhaps, just an obligatory minimum of content, and then focusing on skills mostly...
Ercília - Portugal In a global social system like the present, characterized by complexity, unpredictability and interdependence, several challenges are face. Issues such as serious environmental problems, rapid social transformations, scientific and technological advances, economic and cultural globalization ... require a reflexive and holistic approach. Hence, education and school today face great challenges and should prepare students for these challenges. As such, I agree with Roger, it is necessary for students to develop these skills.
Ercília - Portugal    In a global social system like the present, characterized by complexity, unpredictability and interdependence, several challenges are face. Issues such as serious environmental problems, rapid social transformations, scientific and technological advances, economic and cultural globalization ... require a reflexive and holistic approach. Hence, education and school today face great challenges and should prepare students for these challenges. As such, I agree with Roger, it is necessary for students to develop these skills.
Asun Ara, Spain
Asun Ara, Spain
As teachers, and as educators, we should own the content of a subject, in my case, the English language, but we should also have some skills and competences to transmit our students those concepts in a proper way. Personally, I think that I can teach my students much more due to my experience in life (as a teacher, as a students, as a citizen, as a human being in general) rather than as the contents themselves. Nowdays, everyone can know everything if they know how to look up the information in a proper way. At present, discussions about different topics finish soon since one can surf on the net and find the answer. But one must know how to find the right answer, and this is the aspect that we, teachers, should teach our students.
Thus, I totally agree with Roger and the skills he proposes to be a 21st Century teacher.
Elena Chiş
Elena Chiş
Specific key skills XXI century represents a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes. These are considered necessary for personal fulfillment and development, active citizenship, social inclusion and employment. The 8 specific skills XXI century are:
• communication in the mother tongue;
• communication in foreign languages;
• mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology;
• digital competences;
• learning to learn;
• social and civic competences;
• sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;
• cultural awareness and expression.
Key competencies are interdependent and have important cross-cutting themes such as:
• Creativity common to all
• communication in the mother tongue and in a foreign language
• Work together: assuming the role of collaboration, are heard
• Digital skills: management, organization, retrieval, coding (creating software, games), evaluating the bands, privacy protection, respect for people, responsibility,
• evaluating options critical thinking, decision-making,
• responsibility, social responsibility, learning to learn: responsible person at work and in personal life, eager for self-knowledge and lifelong learning.
Dora, Greece
Dora, Greece
Teachers have to do more than transmit educational content: they have to cultivate students’ ability to be creative, think critically, solve problems and make decisions; they have to help students work better together, by developing their ability to communicate and collaborate; they have to build students’ capacity to recognise and exploit the potential of new technologies; and they have to nurture the character qualities that help people to live and work together.
Papadimitriou Artemis
Papadimitriou Artemis
I agree with Rogers presentation and I consider that these skills are important to help anyone. I  present a method that promotes all these skills...The Artful Thinking Routines were designed by Project Zero at Harvard University to help K-12 teachers regularly use works of visual art and music in their curriculum in ways that strengthen student thinking and learning.

Gabriele Ornaghi - Crema, Italy
Gabriele Ornaghi - Crema, Italy
I completely agree: this is the future!
Ivana Ľ., Slovakia
Ivana Ľ., Slovakia
In this video Roger Blamire explained very clearly and shortly which skills are considered important for life in the 21st century. I think that curriculum should focus on these skills and learns they through content.
Sevastiani Greece
Sevastiani Greece
I couldn't agree more with Rogers presentation which describes the education of the 21st century.
Laura brazzabeni
Laura brazzabeni 
Italy
II completely agree 
Anna, Italy
Anna, Italy
In my opinion this video is a short but clear summary of the new competences that are challenging teachers. 
Alina L., Romania
Alina L., Romania
Creativity, communication, collaboration, digital competences, critical thinking, personal and social responsability....are the 21st century skills most useful for students and teachers...so, I`m agree with Roger presentation
Luís Veloso, Portugal
Luís Veloso, Portugal
Yes, i agree with the focus presented by Roger. These skills are important to help anyone, and is not for now.
Andrei, Romania
Andrei, Romania
The purpose of education is to create valuable skills for students, a sort o social preparation so as to be able to cope with daily issues.
Being creative, communicative, responsible may seem to be the perfect educational product in terms of students' skills.
Maria, Italy
Maria, Italy
I agree with the focus presented by Roger  and I think  all these skills are important to help our students to become  citizens in a world that  changes continuously.
Marcella, Italy
Marcella, Italy
All this skills are important and all together they compose the frame for perfect person
Marta Tarantino
Marta Tarantino
Roger Blamire's presentation perfectly clarifies and effectively summarises important concepts such as the difference between skills and competences and the transversal elements which play a fundamental role in the contemporary idea of learning processes. The need to present our learners with learning activities as well as learning environments -  in a nutshell- learning experiences- that provide them with the necessary opportunities to implement and thus increase their higher-order levels of thinking happily meets with the incredible variety of aids and solutions that technology has been offering. But , as a teacher, I mustn't forget that it isn't a simple matter of mastering a handful of magical devices and tools! The challenges that future classroom scenarios offer need a positive, energetic attitude towards lifelong learning: strategies, techniques, means, all must be set within an everchanging framework.
laura,Pagnozzi,Italy
laura,Pagnozzi,Italy
I agree with the making of Roger fire are key skills: creativity, personal and social responsibility, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, digital competences.
  the students should learn how to learn and acquire the skills able to overcome tests and problems it faces.
a good teacher must be updated continuously to be able to use ICT in education, organizing a learning environment and manage it, pedagogy, curriculum and testing are fundamental elemeti for a future teacher.
Adriana Lefter, Romania
Adriana Lefter, Romania
I`m agree with Roger presentation, all tthese key competences are very necesary for each person to adapt to the real life, to live in these word who is in a paermanent changing ans developing. 
Donato Piccinino, Italy
Donato Piccinino, Italy
Working on skills changes the way you learn and encourages kids to learn and acquire new skills. The Roger Blamire reflections are shared and appropriate because face the reality of the 21st century in a changing world and that needs multiple intelligences and skills to always apply the best solutions
Tihana, Croatia
Tihana, Croatia
In this century the most important thing that we can teach our students is how to adapt to constant changes. We can't do that if we are not prepared to do the same. We have to improve competencies and skills that will help us reach that goal. Communication, collaboration, constructive use of technology, creativity are key competencies everyone needs to develop. 
Anna Bormida
Anna Bormida
Genova, Italy
I agree with Roger ! He presented a clear, positive picture of what students and teachers have to develop in the present and in the future Scenario.
Students and teachers have a great challenge and I hope to participate at this process ! 
Teachers skills are very high and I think that one of the most important is Teacher professional learning because we need to reflect on the way we teach  and what our students learn with us.
For students I particularly agree about  creativity ( learning from mistakes) , communication ( express yourself in different language and situation), collaboratio working together on a task to complete or create something , personal responsibility , enjoy learning, responsible for your learning metacognition is really important.rs.pngzoom_ou
 
Maria Luisa, Turin, Italy
Maria Luisa, Turin, Italy
We have to reflect a lot on these key concepts. This video is very clear and well structured. Roger focused these skills on specific references and a wide range of detailed contexts. Thank you!
George Kyriakopoulos
George Kyriakopoulos
laura,Pagnozzi,Italy
laura,Pagnozzi,Italy
I agree with the making of Roger fire are key skills: creativity, personal and social responsibility, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, digital competences.

  the students should learn how to learn and acquire the skills able to overcome tests and problems it faces.

a good teacher must be updated continuously to be able to use ICT in education, organizing a learning environment and manage it, pedagogy, curriculum and testing are fundamental elemeti for a future teacher.
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Maria Luisa Provezza, Italy.
Maria Luisa Provezza, Italy.
I think Roger is right. As our society has changed , new skills and abilities need to be taken into consideration. If we want to prepare our students to be life-long learners, we should implement the 8 EU Key Competences. Our students should understand their learning strategies, should know how to solve problems taking calculated risks and should use  appropriate digital tools to express themselves and what they have just learnt or discovered. They have to learn how to communicate in an effective way so that they can be understood in this multicultural world and they can understand changes and political situations. They need to be citizens of a world which needs flexibility but also personal and social responsibility.




Egido Annamaria, Italy
Egido Annamaria, Italy
I agree with Rger, 21st century skills are really important for students and teachers
Daniela Chisalita,
Daniela Chisalita,
Romania

I agree with Roger and congratulate him for the presentation. I sat down with skills and abilities mentioned, passion for teaching profession and love for children.
Lorena, RO
Lorena, RO
21st century skills are crucial for students and teachers. 
Maria Natália Couto, Portugal
Maria Natália Couto, Portugal
I couldn't agree more with Roger is referring to on this video. Opening classrooms to the world is crucial.
Zulmira Magalhães, Portugal
Zulmira Magalhães, Portugal
I agree with Roger and the most important thing is that we, teachers, must develop the 21st century skills so that we can help our students to develop their skills:
-Creativity
-Communication
-Collaboration
-Digital competences
-Critical thinking
-Personal and social responsability.

Simona S. Italy
Simona S. Italy
I agree with Rger, 21st century skills are really important for students and teachers
Dora, Greece
Dora, Greece
I absolutely agree with Roger and I liked very much his presentation. I think it appealed to my soul!! I believe that teachers should be competent and able to teach 21st century skills to their students. Skills like ITknowledge, collaborative work, negotiation and communication skills, basic maths competences and knowledge of foreign language are demanded in our society!!
Angela, Italy
Angela, Italy
I really agree with the focus presented By Roger because he underlines both the 21st Century skills students must develop and the 21st Century skills teachers must have to make their teaching effective. If we want our students to acquire the skill of life long learning, we also must learn to learn over time and change our way of teaching. 
Francesca
Francesca
Kids need to acquire involved different areas: ways of thinking (critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, creativity and innovation, learning to learn and metacognition), ways of working (communication, collaboration and teamwork), tools for working (information literacy, ICT literacy, learning to learn and meta cognition), living in the real world (citizenship, local and global, life and career, personal and social responsibility).
As teachers we must prepare our students to became “long life learners”. 



Darina, Bulgaria
Darina, Bulgaria
All these skills are very important and relevant to the future classroom. I think PBL method would help a lot for their development.
Mihaela, Romania
Mihaela, Romania

Yes competencies that a teacher has to follow in teaching learning are found in the legislation of each European countries. I think the hardest thing is to make possible their development where teachers are not themselves able to develop these skills. As a result many courses are needed primarily for teachers. Human resource is the first to make a difference in learning.
Mihaela, Romania
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José Ramón-Spain
José Ramón-Spain
All the skills are important and most of them have to be developed altogether.  Project based approach is one way to carry on all of them. Learning to learn is also something to be developed deeply

antonio, Northern Italy
antonio, Northern Italy 
I like very much mr Roger Blamire reflection on asessement. It’s right . Me  too,I  never assess my students’ contrinbution to a collaborative product or to lifelong learning! I need to find a moment and a way to do it!.
 
gabriella
gabriella 
I like very much the use of picture from thepast.nothing seems to be changed since there in Italian schools!!!

I agree with him when he says that ritical thinking is becoming more and more importanyt in our complex society.in a certain sense he recalls me Edgar Morin book that i post here and that focuese on this aspect of education.thank you Roger Blamirfor your contribution I like it very much 

Raquel Fernandez, Barcelona
Raquel Fernandez, Barcelona
It is very important that teachers have the skills described by Roger Blamire. Because, it will determine how we organize and design our learning activities taking into account that 21st century skills will be acquired and put into practice by our students. 
Assessment is a fundamental part of the process to know if our teaching task is correct or not. Evaluating our task will determine the quality of our job as creators of learning experiences. 
Fausto, Italy
Fausto, Italy
I read many say that the most important thing is critical thinking. 
But how to teach it? Tell me. I believe that every individual has the right to be informed. Yes. Informed, made aware of things. Then the same individual must be respected, not bombarded, otherwise he will spend the rest of his life in trying and deconstruct and discover himself and give some revival to his own imagination. I still believe that the best teaching method is the one that can inspire. I'm in search of that, I'm ardently seeking that. So, again, technology, a different setting, a more wide sense of knowledge, et similia, all those things can help. Just help.


Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy
Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy
I agree with the focus presented by Roger in the video. According to me, transversal competences such as collaborative problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity,  are particularly important today, but the most important one is the ‘learning to learn’ competence. Every teacher is involved in this task, regardless of the subject taught, because digital competence, cultural awarewness and expression, sense of initiative and enterpreneurship are aims common to all matters. “Learning to learn” means to develop a problem-solving attitude and the curiosity to learn and apply learning in a variety of life context to develop the right competences for 21st Century Schools.

Annamaria, Hungary
Annamaria, Hungary
Need to develop these skills - together - teachers + students + students' parents. 
Diego, Croatia
Diego, Croatia
Critical thinking, collaboration, communication, problem solving and personal responsability are the most important skills that we have to develop withn our students. 
Josefina Martín, Spain
Josefina Martín, Spain
We should address all of them providing learning designs which involve these skills significantly. Project Based approach is key in order to develope them.
Alexandre Martins, Portugal.
Alexandre Martins, Portugal.
Hello. I think PBL in a way to develop all skill that Bart speak in the video... and with witch I totally agree.
An excelent article to rewiew: 
http://floridacitizensalliance.com/liberty/role-education-twenty-first-century-learning-social-engineering-play-role/
Vasilis Boskos, Greece
Vasilis Boskos, Greece
In my opinion, collaboration, learning how to learn and critical thinking are the most important skills that we and our students should have. 

Doina Andrei, Romania
Doina Andrei, Romania
The educators have to effectively create the classroom of the future – a classroom that will build the necessary skills for educating globally competent students, and truly prepare them to thrive as responsible global citizens in the 21st century. Skills that globally competent students will require to successfully navigate college, career, and life in the 21st century include:
- an appreciation for cultural differences
- an ability to understand and consider multiple perspectives
- critical and comparative thinking skills
- problem-solving abilities
- comfort with ambiguity and change
- an understanding of globally significant issues. 
Dimitra, Brussels
Dimitra, Brussels
Our age can be described as the "information age". It demands several abilities that students need to develop in order to be successful in an information - based society. 
First they need to develop LEARNING SKILLS such as Critical and Creative Thinking, as well as the ability to Collaborate and to Communicate. 
Besides their learning skills they need to have LITERACY SKILLS. Information, Media and Technology Literacy are key skills. 
The future citizens 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, also, require students to be flexible, to take initiative and to lead when necessary and to produce something new and useful. So, LIFE SKILLS such as Flexibility, Initiative, Social Skills, Productivity and Leadership are also important..............
Edit, Hungary
Edit, Hungary
All the competencies and skills are important to be improved in this and the forthcoming centuries. To my mind, the most important skills to be improved considering our students are: critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity. For  teachers: all the previously mentioned plus lifelong learning and developing.
Caterina, Italy
Caterina, Italy
We should change our traditional way of teaching and use technology to keep up with our students. We should give them the chance to develop critical thinking and  collaborative skills. 
Vlad Eugenia Ioana, Romania
Vlad Eugenia Ioana, Romania
The most important skill is to learn how to learn 
Eleni, Greece
Eleni, Greece
I think that the most important skill, as far as math and science is concerned, is critical thinking. 
ALEXANDRU BISCOVEANU, Romania
ALEXANDRU BISCOVEANU, Romania
I am totally agreed with Blaimer and we must do everything for our students to increase their motivation for learning and for coming to school with love.
Rosa, Italy
Rosa, Italy
I'm agree with Roger. His introduction is clear  and focuse on the important 21st century skills. We need to change our way to teach and the students their way to learn. I think the most important skills for the students are the creativity and the critical thinking.
Despoina Amarantidou, Greece
Despoina Amarantidou, Greece
We should motivate our students and make them collaborate and cooperate with their peers.
Linda, Latvia
Linda, Latvia
21st century skills/competences- all of them need to be focused on. Future classroom may help in that. I`m more worried about the skills for teachers. Will I manage and be educated ever enough?
Ayhan, Turkey
Ayhan, Turkey
We really need to change something . We have this power as a teachers. New technologies new adapts and to try get students
Ivan DUMITRA MITRICA, ROMANIA
Ivan DUMITRA MITRICA, ROMANIA
I am agree. And I think we must know what our students want to find in class because this is the only way in wich we can develp their interest for school
Željka, Croatia
Željka, Croatia
We really need to make our students 'use their heads'
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Francesca, Italy
Francesca, Italy
I completely agree and I think that the most challenging but  the most important skill is the critical thinking
Helga, Croatia
Helga, Croatia
It is our task to help our students become critical thinkers and valuable members of today's society.
Zvonimira, Croatia
Zvonimira, Croatia
We have to be accountable for our actions. We strive for a responsible society.
Zdravka, Croatia
Zdravka, Croatia
We need students to think critically!

Paula, Romania
Paula, Romania
Bravo for this presentation! We all want to have students demonstrating that they have developed most of these skills, but do we really know all our students ? It takes time and patience. It is also important for me to educate young generation in the sense of being tolerant and open minded. That's something else, too: the French writer Albert Camus said in his famous novel "La peste" "cette histoire nous concerne tous" (this matter/affair concerns all of us). We should teach our youngsters to care and show empathy.  Even when using new technology.
Popa Alina Romania
Popa  Alina Romania 
I think we have to create an original student, creative, responsable and prepared for life`s future all kind of situations. 
Carmela, Italy
Carmela, Italy
Pietra, Italy
Pietra, Italy 
I'm agrre whit this video. So im my class I develope lots of skills, competences, knowledges in my students
Chiara, Italia
Chiara, Italia
We need a super-student! How to have it grow up? Many of my 15 years old vocational students aren't so creative and curious! Perhaps something killed their creativity and curiosity before I met them! Nowadays the idea that it is important to start education at a very early age is spreading and I think it's right.
HALE,TURKEY
HALE,TURKEY
Mihaela Ciuchi,
Mihaela Ciuchi, 
This is my opinion!
Anita, Croatia
Anita, Croatia
Students
Anita, Croatia
Anita, Croatia
Critical thinking !
Moreno. Italy
Moreno. Italy
http://edglossary.org/21st-century-skills/
Moreno. Italy
Moreno. Italy

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The skills to be promoted are those indicated by the European framework of eight key competences:
Communication in the mother tongue; Communication in foreign languages; Mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology; Digital competence; Learning to learn; social and civic competences; Spirit of initiative and the entrepreneurship; Cultural awareness and expression.
I think that a teacher should consider social competences first of all, but digital skills, critical thinking, communication are very important too.

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I totally agree with Roger...

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I Think that the all the competences skills should be focused in our classrooms. I agree with the focus presented by Roger in the video.

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I Think that the all the competences skills should be focused in our classrooms. I agree with the focus presented by Roger in the video.

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I agree with Roger. In my opinion all the skills are important and should be cultured in parallel with knowledge.

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irreproachable!

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Knowledge less important - you can find it. Learning to learn and skills are the most important things we can learn our students.

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I agree with Roger Blamire.
I think we have to focus on new tchnologies, communicative competences, collaborative work , communication, etc.

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I think that a teacher should consider social competences first of all, but digital skills, critical thinking, communication are very important too.

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I agree with Roger. The tools to focus on:
- Social skills-emotional intelligence
- New technologies
- Collaborative work
- Critical thinking
- Autonomy, learning to learn
- Communicative competence (languages)
- Entrepreneurship
- Competences in science and technology

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The need to provide young people with the necessary basic skills and to improve improve the results of individual results is an essential essential part of EU strategies for growth and jobs. Starting from the spontaneous knowledge must rebuild the school and show a map of formal knowledge, using different teaching devices, active structuring tasks, where to exercise experience and solve problems. The skills to be promoted are those indicated by the European framework of eight key competences:
Communication in the mother tongue; Communication in foreign languages; Mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology; Digital competence; Learning to learn; social and civic competences; Spirit of initiative and the entrepreneurship; Cultural awareness and expression.

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21st Century skills

Personal and social responsibility

Critical thinking

Collaboration

Communication

Digital competences

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Yes, I agree!

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I agree with Roger ide

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I am fully agree with him.  The today classrooms and multinationality and so students are daily involve to conprend and help others that are in difficulties. So collaboration and work in a team in indispensable for future job placement.

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I perfectly agree with all the innovative input shown in the video. By using these skills in our classroom, we give the pupils the chance to develop a critic and a widen active competence.

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I totally agree with the presented ideas in the video.

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I agree with Roger. The 4 C's are essential for the training of 21st century students for a changing society. With these skills we are giving them tools to become active and constructive citizens in an increasingly demanding age. It seems to me important that the student become the center of the learning process.

However, it is necessary to start with the teachers. It is in them and in political power that the obstacle to change lies. Maybe this is due to historical or social reasons, economic, educational policies and even some insecurity from the teachers.

As someone said, we are twentieth-century teachers, teaching in 19th-century classrooms to 21st-century students. Something is not right!

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I totally agree with the presented ideas in the video. Especially creativity and critical thinking should be vtal competencies that we aim to achieve in our classes. However, governmental policies affect in what way we teach in the class. As predicted, national exams that are in multiple choice format and aim to assess memorization skills(!) decides waht ans how we teach in the lessons.

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The video highlights the importance of various skills needed in modern society, such as creativity, responsibility, critical thinking, digital skills ... To develop these skills by students is necessary that there are competent teachers prepared not only for pedagogical aspects but also to those related to ICT, for evaluation, for the organization ....
The professor. Roger Blamire outlined a complete and interesting picture!

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Yes, I agree.

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I'm totally agree.

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The video is  very interesting, full of truth; I'm  totally agree.

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saporattet laborators in everykind of types where every student can find himself and can find more time to learn and to make what he want's

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i agree completely but I am discouraged for the final step: assessment. What is the sense of everything if assessment is difficult and there is little chance to change the way to assess?

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Life Long Learning is a key to successin the world of rapid  changes. Learning to learn, flexibility, critical thinking and many more mentioned in the video - very well done summary!

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Present students are future adults; the critical thinking, the ability to work together, the sense of responsibility, the ability to communicate in an appropriate language, the digital skills are skills that are being built day by day, step by step through trial and error. The disciplines should be the means by which to develop these skills

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Teaching and learning in a new perspective.

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The video is very interesting, full of truths and insights. We must walk the road of change, be flexible to teach the flexibility and the ability to face and overcome the challenges with a critical spirit and collaboration capabilities.
I believe that all powers are necessary and among their employees: are taught to learn to promote critical thinking and so on for all the skills.

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Not all the skills and tools we had when we became teachers are needed today. So we must focus on our own improvement in order to be good teachers.

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Sure, he's totally right. Want to find out more about the tools he uses!

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Sure, he's totally right. Want to find out more about the tools he uses!

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It is important to learn how to learn.

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Enjoy learning!!!!

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we all know the importance af the 21st century skills, and we, as teachers, we have the moral obligation to pass them to our students- creativity, communication, collaboration , are essentiale in the society we live.

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I think personal and social responsibility is the most important key among the 21st century skills. Because if you take your learning responsibility, you can gain all the other skills, too. So my motto is ''Don't give me the fish but teach me to fish...''

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I personally value the key skills of the 21st century that were stated in the video. They should be definetely available to all learners but we also should accept that every learner will have a certain tendency toacquire specific skills... (>>inclusion)
The combination of all 6 key skills will make sure that life long learning is possible for every learner.

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Our professional development should help us redesign the methods and learning activities to build the skills and competencies of the 21st century such as communication, cooperative learning, problem-based learning, critical learning, self assessment as well as peer assessment and application of knowledge using ICT.

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We are conscoius of 21st century skills but we work as in 20st century because students must pass INVALSI tests.

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Almost all the 21th century skills are based on technology. Creativity, communication, collaboration, digital competences are to be developed throught technology. This is how the classroom looks like in the future.

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I agree with Roger Blamire. 21st Century is the Century of globalisation thanks to technology. The teacher role and the student role in the teaching-learning process have changed. We must develop the eight key competences and the 21st century skills (for students and for teachers).  All of them are important for the successful of teaching-learning process.

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I think need  imagine new classroom to improve skills and ability for our students

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Learning to learn.
Learning to fail and not give up but continue.

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I am teaching for many years at a school where computing technologies are considered important aid for the educational relationship

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I am teaching for many years at a school where computing technologies are considered important aid for the educational relationship

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Creativity, communication, problem solving, curiosity, ICT literacy, I think teachers should help students to develop these skills to become better people in the future.

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the part I prefer is when he explains the importance of helping students to enjoy learning

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Thanks to Roger for thinking and expressing himself so clearly. Creativity and critical thinking are essential in such a global world, but we will do nothing without communicating and collaborating with each other. Personal and social responsibility are basic for any learning and digital competences are key to put the rest of the skills together. I couldn´t agree more!

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I do agree with Roger and I hope that those teachers who are still wary of technologies could change their minds and start taking into account he EU 21st Century Skills

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What a beautiful video! He says what I think and what I constantly repeat to my colleagues on the new way of teaching.

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Personally, I bet on creativity since I notic ethat at schools students do not seem to be curious and skilled in terms of solving problems. i ADVISE

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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

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Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

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Extremely useful video! It gives us food for thought. I agree with everything seen.

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In this regard, an increasing number of schools around Spain are making their shift from knowledge-based education to education centred on competencies. The government has also given a push to accelerating the process with the new educational law. However, much more is still to be done and as teachers we all need to contribute as much as we can.

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What a beautiful video! He says what I think and what I constantly repeat to my colleagues on the new way of teaching.

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It is a very useful and inspiring video. 21st century skills summarized perfectly. I totally agree with Roger. We need emphasize all these skills both for the students and for ourselves as teachers.

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To me especially, personal responsibility is very important skill. I agree that Teachers shpoul take responsibility for one's learning in and beyond school

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From my point of view, the ideas presented in the video completely coincide with the need to reflect on the current society and its needs. From there, we can begin to adapt the bases to achieve a pioneering and quality education. To do this, teachers must help their students to develop correctly in society. This is achieved by offering them tools and skills that they can use throughout their lives

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The description of both skills and abilities are indispensable as the axis of teaching. I agree with the rapporteur.

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All through the presentatios what we can see clearly is altough everything else has changed considerably, learning environments and approaches have not. 21st century skills are  the curicial summaries of everything that must change for a better future education system. So I agree with Roger!

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21st century skills:
CREATIVITY- should have a lot of space at school. During the creation process people very often learn to reach their goal / bring an idea to life and can self-direct their learning without being pushed by the teacher.

COMMUNICATION -
necessary for life, relationships, work. social skills

COLLABORATION - my experience has shown that we must give SS enough opportunities for team work to learn skills for successful cooperation and shared responsibility. Plus, collaborative work makes SS really work and be active. I can see the difference.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY + CITIZENSHIP

foreign language - majority of people need it in their adult life
cultural awareness- people must be more tolerant
digital competence
- tech will make your life and career easier if you master it
mathematical competence - WHY?
I really do not know- I live pretty nice without deep Maths knowledge, most of secondary-school Maths I have forgotten. Basic counting and % left in my mind is what I need. I would let SS choose levels of Maths to study.

PEER ASSESSMENT

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I am certain that all the abilities and competences mentioned by Roger are important in the 21st century education. They are indispensable both for students and teachers.

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I absolutely agree with Roger. He presented main key competences for the generation in 21 century. I think they are the most important skills and abillities in them.

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I absolutely agree with R

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I agree with the exposicion by Roger because I think that the first step to try to change education is we adapt to the real world and its needs.

Those needs are refering to grow up the competences and skills, which can help to our students in their life in society.

For this reason, teachers should show the best way to learn this competences.

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First of all we need to develope critical thinking, followed by collaborative collaboration. we might remodule our way to teach and to learn.

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I totally agree with Roger. As he said; The skills of Creativity communication, collaboration, digital compatance, critical thinking, learning to learn is very important not only for students but also for the teachers in the classrooms. To engage the students and to motivate them easily teachers should develop 21st century teaching scenarios

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We have to make it work for all those skills, they are all very important.
Right now I'm involved in project called ATS2020 where we are actually working on learning scenarios for developing those skills.
It's a bumpy road but we are getting better.

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I think that creativity is a very important skill to develope because it allows to solve the problems and to create new views, adapting to the fast changing of the reality. Then I think communication could be a strategic lever to change the thoughts and behaviours.

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I think that critical thinking is the skill that must be developed more than others (at least in my school) because too many students tend to believe everything they see or hear, and never anayze the source of information.

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I think that today we should focus on effective communication between us and studnts and among students,self-learning, good cooperation with peers, be able to deal with conflicts, motivation, emphaisation.

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1. What skills should we develop in the classroom?
For me the 21st century skills are:

· Self-learning

· Critical Thinking

· Communicative collaboration

· The domain of computer resources.

· Creativity

2. Should the curriculum focus on content or skills?

Above all, it should focus on being simple in its application, having the possibility of interdisciplinarity and then concentrating on competences, with content being a means to reach them.

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I agree totally with the ideas expressed by Roger and I consider that we should take advantage of the new methods we have at hand but, on the other side, I find that among my students there are always some who delegate responsibility: for them is easier not to do any extra effort because they prefer to be given everything done but then, they complain because they feel bored. I hope that future generations who have started at school with this spirit will adapt to that in the correct way.

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I totally agree with the skills presented by Roger because I think that if we want to change education, first of all, we have to adapt to the real world and to nowadays reality. That means that memorising is not as important as it used to be, since I can have all the years and important facts of a concrete historical event in a second after having googled it. Perhaps, today, it would be more important to understand those historical events, and to see in which way they have modeled us.
For that reason, and for lots more, I think that we nowadays students have to learn those competences and skills, that help them think, learn, gain autonomy, know how to manage and lead a group...

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Digital competences, collaborative and communicative competences, critical thinking and creativity, responsabilit - both personal and social - are the most important skills we should focus on in our teaching.

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First of all, the crucial questions about what skills, competences, knowledge should we as a teachers focus on in our classroom? I must stress that, 6 th parts of critical thinking are the most important priority we as a teachers must to know to manage continuously.

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'21st century competences are so crucial. These skills are problem solving, critical&creative thinking, self-actualization,decision taking,collaborating, respecting others, learning to learn is key sompetences in this digitally socialized environment, in this century.

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Critical Thinking , solving problem must stimulate student to perform core skills

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Critical thinking is the first priority we have to evaluate for our students. The information that young people will have to manage this century will be huge and changing continuously. Adoptation, creativity and competivity are priorities that young people will have to evaluate in order to be able to live in the 21st century.

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Critical thinking is a kind of thinking characterized by mental processes of discernment, analysis, and evaluation.

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As the 21st Century skills initiate active learning and higher thinking order skills , it enables learners to decide their learnings so the roles change and the adaptation of this change requires personal and social responsibility. In addition -, these skills focus on creativity so the learning process becomes more meaningful for the individual learners. Producing someting includes many elements so collaboration on a specific mission provides peer learning in a social learning environment. Finally ,the constructive assessment part of this process provides development of works.

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I think digital competences is the nest of all the other skills in 21st century.

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Creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, personal responsibility, digital competences are important skills in the nowadays society. The 21 century skills for teacher: teacher professional learning, understanding ICT in education, organization and administration, pedagogy, ICT, curriculum and assessment.

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All of the skills/competences mentioned are important. But I think that the metacognitive ability of learning how we learn is probably the most important one, because it informas all the other skills. If you aren't aware of your own learning style, or what pace is best for you, you will have trouble handling any kind of new learning - including all the other competences listed in the video above. However, I must add that, while the classrooms should change to accommodate new skills/competences, some things, like teaching values of respect for other cultures/life choices, embracing diversity, emapthy, etc. should never go out of style, regardless of the ICT revolution.

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I agree with Roger's opinion, we can't think that we can keep teaching without taking into consideration the new competences and skills the 21st century needs. Unfortunately, curricula not always allow us to focus on what are the needs of the present time. Another problem the Italian school faces is that there isn't enough cooperation among teachers, especially High School one, yet.

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Obiously, I agree with Roger´s presentation. All of us, have to think about what we what, what they need, why and how we can get it. We can´t focus only in contents, we have to take into account t21st century skills.

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I agree with Roger's presentation about 21st century skills. We should aim at a balance of skills according to our students' needs. The 8 EU key competences are very important. It depends to teacher's goals and student's need to which skills, competences and knowledge should we focus on in our classroom.

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It's impossible not to agree with Roger's focus. The 8 EU Framework of Key Competences is probably easier to adapt to our school goals as they can be partly connected to specific school subjects - which is not what we should do, but it's what we have been doing since we had to fill in a "Certificato delle Competenze". I think that the 6 ( or 4) 21st Century 'Skills'  show more clearly their absolute

interconnection and overlapping through all the single content subjects we pretend to teach in our schools.

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Salou, spain

I totally agree that commmon key competences are essential to use when programming our course syllabus, in fact we already take them into account when preparing tasks for our students. Creativity, groupwork and problem solving are the most important ones if we want students achieve great products.

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(Matino, Italy)
Roger shows a very complex society where EU key competences (learn to learn, communicate, active citizenship, and so on ..) are strongly required in people in order to cope with rapidly changing cultural, social and economical scenarios. Teachers should be visionary people to help students to be self-confident and "well-equipped" going towards the future world.

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I totally agree with what Roger has said about the key competences our students and we teachers should achieve to be 21st century citizens. We should always keep in mind what the EU skill competences are. They are vital for everyone's formation. It's true, we don't know what the world will be like in the future, but one thing we know we cannot ignore what skills our students need today.

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The 21st century skills are a set of abilities that students need to develop in order to succeed in the information age. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills lists three types:

Learning Skills

Critical Thinking

Creative Thinking

Collaborating

Communicating

Literacy Skills

Information Literacy

Media Literacy

Technology Literacy

Life Skills

Flexibility

Initiative

Social Skills

Productivity

Leadership

New Skills for New Jobs

These skills have always been important for students, though they are particularly important in our information-based economy. When most workers held jobs in industry, the key skills were knowing a trade, following directions, getting along with others, working hard, and being professional—efficient, prompt, honest, and fair. Schools have done an excellent job of teaching these skills, and students still need them.

To hold information-age jobs, though, students also 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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Oksana Nagorna (Poltava, Ukraine)

"21st century key competences" that`s what should we start with to recreate the system of education in furure, that`s what should every school teacher be aware of.

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María Concepción Pomar Rosselló (Palma de Mallorca, Sp

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María Concepción Pomar Rosselló (Palma de Mallorca, Sp

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I agree with what Blamire says that with nowadays' technology, some "old-school" skills like memorisation are not so important like years before to accomplish with your job, I think nevertheless that memorisation for example is a very good skill to develop in terms of brain training and development, therefore for me it is a pity that such skills are not required anymore (or at least not that much) in nowadays' schools. On the other hand, it is undeniable that the new technologies facilitate teaching skills such as coding much more easily and efficiently - skills that are highly on demand and that would mean a change in the lives of many children with a vocation.

The EU, as Blamire points out in the video, states eight key competences to master for this 21st Century, which are:

1. Communication in the mother tongue.

2. Communication in foreign languages.

3. Mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology.

4. Digital competence.

5. Learning to learn.

6. Social and civic competences.

7. Sense of initiative and entrepeneurship.

8. Cultural awareness and expression.

The digital era requires a strict mastery of communication competences via the social networks and sharing tools, promoting netiquette and self-control and underlying the value of a good SEO and personal branding practice. At the same time, in the new schools some other skills besides communication have become far more important as compared to the schools of old, like creativity, initiative, courage to take planned or calculated risks, learning from your own mistakes, self-evaluating your own creations, collaboration, being flexible and able to play different roles, respect to oneself and others, being able to work efficiently through digital tools, being able to analyse information and its sources critically, safety and responsibility online, problem-solving, decision-taking, well-founded argumentation, reaching your own conclusions, learning to learn, and self-actualisation. All these skills require new forms of assessment and testing, as Mr. Blamire points out.