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21st Century Skills and Literacies

Activity: Team Exploration

With your team, examine and discuss the resources below to explore 21st Century Skills and Literacies. Use these questions to guide your exploration:

1. What are 21st century skills?
2. What does it mean to be literate in the 21st Century?
3. What does it mean to be a 21st century teacher?
4. What changes might you and your school need to make to address 21st Century skills?

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After EXPLORING and DISCUSSING the resources below, work with your team to share what you've learned:

1. Create a Wordle that portrays what it means to literate in the 21st Century. Share the URL (web address) to your Wordle by copying and pasting the address in the reply box.
2. Post a reply to the discussion question , reflecting on needed changes you or your school might need to make to better equip students for the 21st Century.

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Resources:

Please explore all of the following:

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  KMSLiteracyDef.pdf
  

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  NCTE_21cLiteracyvs20cLiteracy.pdf
  

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• National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Students and Teachers and Administrators and Technology Facilitators and Leaders .
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy Maps: Illustrate the intersection between ICT and core academic subjects
• A View of 21st Century Learners (2:16)

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Explore at least three of the following:

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills: According to their web site, they're the "leading advocacy organization infusing 21st century skills into education."
• West Virginia's Dept. of EducationTeach21
• 16 Habits of Mind
• More thoughts on 21st Century Literacies from NCTE
• Standards for 21st Century Learning (from West Virginia Dept. of Ed.):PreK-2, Grades 3-4 Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12,

3 Steps for 21st Century Learning (4:13)



The Machine is Us/ing Us (4:30)


R/evolution (5:28)

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