21st Century Skills (A Partnership)

This article is about a non-profit organization - The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - provides a deep overview of what they're all about.

"The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has created a new way of looking at teaching and learning today", in several different ways. For example, they focus on the core subjects and address learning and thinking skills.

The purpose for this article, or partnership program, is intended for students to learn new things in new ways so they can live and work in a changing world. Among other purposes, this Partnership has many useful ways of how students may succeed in this ever changing world.

Among the Partnership's framework, we can see that it includes the standards, curriculum, environment, and assessments that districts must implement.

This article was a great read for anyone entering the teaching/education field. I thought it was important when this article mentioned that "students today are partly shaped by their environment, which is media rich, immediate, fast, engaging, dynamic and instant. It is electronic and digital, a communication medium implying instant gratification."

Also in this article, we learn that 21st century learners are:
*collaborative, networkers, and communicators
*adaptive and creative
*information, media and technology savvy
*partial to instant gratification
*reliant on media in its various forms

So, when becoming a teacher or educator of any sort, we must ALWAYS know are students and where they are coming from. Things are always changing!!