21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn

This anthology will introduce the Framework for 21st Century Learning from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills as a way to re-envision learning and prepare students for a rapidly evolving global and technological world. Highly respected education leaders and innovators focus on why these skills are necessary, which are most important, and how to best help schools include them in curriculum and instruction.

Contributors examine three basic questions to illuminate the theme of 21st century skills:

1. Why are 21st century skills needed for learning in the future?
2. Which skills are most important?
3. What can be done to help schools include these skills in their repertoire so that 21st century learning results?

Benefits

• Obtain theories, strategies, and methods of change from a diverse group of leading researchers.
• Increase rigor by infusing 21st century skills into core subjects.
• Realize the importance of students mastering content and skills, moving beyond the old standards of memorized information.
• Nurture critical student skills such as ingenuity, agility, and adaptability.
• Teach students to apply and transform their knowledge for useful and creative purposes.