Whatare21stCenturySkills

=21st Century Learning= The new millennium has brought challenges and change to the world. In the field of education, no longer are students content with 19th and 20th century learning. Knowledge and information, the currency of the 21st Century, is now available to all. Digitized primary source materials including such varied documents as drafts of The Declaration of Independence ([]) and Matthew Brady's original photographs from the Civil War ([]) are now at the fingertips of middle school students, not just the most scholarly of academics. The paradigm for teaching and learning has shifted.

=What Are 21st Century Skills?=

Click on the links below to find different definitions and frameworks for 21st Century skills:
 * [|Learning for the 21st Century]
 * [|Marc Prensky's 5 Skills Framework for Problem-Solving]
 * [|What are 21st Century Century Skills?]
 * **21st Century Skills Crosswalk:** This document shows six (6) major 21st century skills identified through an analysis of three major studies of 21st century skills. Citations are on the bottom of the third page: [|21crosswalk.pdf]
 * **21st Century Skills Critical Assessment Framework:**This document has potential indicators of attainment (specific behaviors that are evidence that the skill has been acquired/demonstrated) for each of the six skills enumerated in the Crosswalk. For external links or more information check out the home page of the Center for 21st Century Skills at Education Connection at []: [|21criticalassessframe.pdf]