Module 2: Current Trends in Education and Educational Reform Notebook Activity 9 Flashcards
Explain critical thinking and how it is important to workforce readiness.
Critical thinking helps which helps employees use knowledge, facts, and data to solve problems.
Explain what Twenty-First Century Knowledge and Skills Framework is.
Presents a view of 21st Century teaching and learning that combines a discrete focus on 21 century student outcomes (a blending of specific skills, content knowledge, expertise and literacies). The focus is on learning and innovation skills; information, media and technology skills; life and career skills; core subjects, and 21st century schemes.
Explain how National Education Association (NEA) and American Association of School Librarians (AASL) were involved in the creation of the Twenty-First Century Knowledge and Skills Framework.
They partnered to develop the framework for teaching and learning that stretches from preschool through graduate school. They identified the knowledge, skills and expertise that they believe students should master to be successful in this century.