California Math League High School Round 4
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21st Century Learning Skills
Partnership for 21st Century Skills is an organization founded by U.S. Department of Education, National Education Association, and business leaders such as Time Warner, Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, Dell Computer, Microsoft and SAP in 2002. The organization's mission is to bring 21st Century Skills to every child in America by serving as a catalyst for change in teaching, learning, and assessment through a unique partnership among education, business, and government leaders. The organization believes every child in American needs 21st century knowledge and skills to succeed as effective citizens, workers and leaders in the 21st century. They identified Information and Communication, Thinking and Problem-Solving, and Interpersonal and Self-Directional Skills as the three most important learning skills in the 21st Century.
21st Century Learning Skills
by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills
1. Information and Communication Skills:
- Information & Media Literacy: Analyzing, accessing, managing, integrating, evaluating and creating information in a variety of forms and media. Understanding the role of media in society.
- Communication Skills: Understanding, managing and creating effective oral, written and multimedia communication in a variety of forms and contexts.
2. Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills:
- Critical Thinking & Systems Thinking: Exercising sound reasoning in understanding and making complex choices, understanding the interconnections among systems.
- Problem identification, formulation and solution: Ability to frame, analyze and solve problems.
- Creativity and intellectual curiosity: Developing, implementing and communicating new ideas to others, staying open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives.
3. Interpersonal and Self-Directional Skills
- Interpersonal and collaborative skills: Demonstrating teamwork and leadership: adapting to varied roles and responsibilities; working productively with others; exercising empathy; respecting diverse perspectives.
- Self Direction: Monitoring one's own understanding and learning needs, locating appropriate resources, transferring learning from one domain to another.
- Accountability and Adaptability: Exercising personal responsibility and flexibility in personal, workplace and community contexts; setting and meeting high standards and goals for one's self and others; tolerating ambiguity.
- Social Responsibility: Acting responsibly with the interests of the larger community in mind; demonstrating ethical behavior in personal, workplace and community contexts.
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