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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | The new building blocks for learning in a complex worldThis important resource introduces a framework for 21st Century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world. 21st Century content includes the basic core subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic-but also emphasizes global awareness, financial/economic literacy, and health issues. The skills fall into three categories: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills. This book is filled with vignettes, international examples, and classroom samples that help illustrate the framework and provide an exciting view of twenty-first century teaching and learning. - Explores the three main categories of 21st Century Skills: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills
- Addresses timely issues such as the rapid advance of technology and increased economic competition
- Based on a framework developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21)
The book contains a DVD with video clips of classroom teaching. For more information on the book visit www.21stcenturyskillsbook.com. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Bernie Trilling | | Hardcover: | 240 pages | | Publisher: | Jossey-Bass | | Publication Date: | October 05, 2009 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0470475382 | | Product Width: | 1.56 centimeters | | Product Height: | 2.37 centimeters | | Product Weight: | 0.01 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.0 inches | | Package Width: | 6.1 inches | | Package Height: | 1.1 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 18 reviews |
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21 of 25 found the following review helpful:
 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times Oct 31, 2009
By Dee Hartt
First off, thanks to the authors for writing a book that is applicable to teaching and learning. I've read 6 other books on 21st century skills topics and none have come close to providing models, examples, etc. on teaching and learning. In this book the authors spend less time detailing the changes in our world that are bringing an emphasis on "21st century skills" back to the forefront and more time on defining the skills and a learning framework to be used by educators in assisting students acquisition of these skills. The text details each "21st century skill" with descriptors of what students should be able to do. For educators, this is paramount in designing performance tasks and/or evaluating student performance tasks as actually being a "21st century skill." The authors then provide a learning framework or the "the project learning bicycle" and finish up with good descriptors of system changes to promote the implementation of their ideas. To sum up my thoughts, this is a book written for educational practitioners.
Dee W. Hartt, Ed. D.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
loved the ideas presented in this book! Dec 25, 2009
By M. Hagen
An informative book for any parent who is actively engaged in their child's education. If more schools had the kind of learning framework presented here, we could revolutionize education as we know it. So many of us faltered along the way because we were forced to learn in a system that didn't optimize our capabilities or support our learning styles. This book offers the guidance and vision within a comprehensive framework that can do both. We need this kind of thoughtful leadership now more than ever if we want to be competitive in the global environment.
Be sure to watch the DVD portion, it was so inspiring it made me want to go back to 4th grade..and that's the way our kids should feel about going to school every day!
9 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Learning for Life in the 21st Century Nov 25, 2009
By John Connell
"....to the little girl in Santo Domingo, whose eyes will forever remind me that 'a mind is a terrible thing to waste.' "
May you, and the millions like you, find the dignity, happiness, and serenity you deserve, through the transformational power of education.
This powerful and personal memory ends Charles Fadel's dedication of the book he has co-authored with Bernie Trilling: 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in our Times. The slogan of the UNCF, a phrase redolent of that long and continuing struggle for civil rights in the USA, is an apt reminder of the critical role of education in building and maintaining a world in which every child has the chance to experience the joy of learning and a chance to take his or her life somewhere beyond mere survival.
The first point to make is that 21st Century Skills is a highly practical and down-to-earth introduction to the detail that underpins the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), the US-based (but determinedly outward-looking) organization focused on "...infusing 21st century skills into education." The book manages to offer a concise and accessible exposition of all the key issues, ideas and philosophy of P21. Anyone who wants all of that in a single, highly readable package would do well to seek out this book.
Fadel & Trilling take us through their definition of 21st century learning, through what they call `the perfect learning storm', namely a convergence of forces, as they see them, that should be causing us to re-think the shape and objectives of schooling today, through the full P21 set of 21st century skills, and through a series of pragmatic examples of P21 in practice. The objective is to meet one of the pivotal challenges of our time:
"The 21st century challenge for each of us is to build and maintain our own identity from our given traditions and from the wide variety of traditions all around us. At the same time we must all learn to apply tolerance and compassion for the different identities and values of others."
I like this because it accords with my own preference to view education primarily as a means for the reproduction and development of cultures, and only secondarily as a means for the maintenance of a society. Jerome Bruner has written:
"Man's intellect....is not simply his own, but is communal in the sense that its unlocking or empowering depends upon the success of the culture in developing means to that end."
Building and strengthening of culture is a process that happens from the ground up, while building and strengthening a society tends to happen from the top down. If one of the underlying tenets of P21 is to focus on the former, while not forgetting the importance of the latter, then I can only commend this attempt to describe the 21st century skills approach as one that teachers should, at the very least, take account of in developing their own teaching practice.
There are those who have tried to dismiss P21 as an endeavour whose primary aim is the creation of a `content-free curriculum', or even a `knowledge-free curriculum'. This is simply nonsense, and is indeed, at heart, malicious in its intent. P21 is about shifting the balance in the curriculum; it is not about deleting the experience of hundreds of years of formal education. As the authors say:
Teachers who are shifting their practices to meet the needs of our times talk about how they're remixing the coverage of content with the uncovering of ideas and concepts....
21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in our Times is, I believe, an important book, one that offers a clear, intelligible and comprehensive characterization of the essential features of the P21 approach. It is a book that I would commend to anyone interested in thinking through the relevance of education to children today and into the future.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
21st Century skills for teaching and learning for life Oct 18, 2010
By Lori Donovan
I had an opportunity to hear Bernie Trilling speak when the book first came out. As a school librarian who sees every student in my school, this book has become a valuable resource for me and my library partner. This book provides a practical guide for reinvigorating teaching for the next generation. Each chapter lays out a foundation that supports teachers and students as we prepare them for a job that may not exisit yet, all the while reinforcing critical thinking & problem solving, communication & collaboration, and creativity & innovation.
We focused in on the Four Converging Forces that educators need to look at in addressing student learning and have adapted many of our collaboration lessons with teachers to include these skills. Chapter 3 focuses on many other digital literacies and Chapter 5 on how to prepare students for work.
The second part of the book takes all the theories and places them in a blueprint for practice within the school district. Any school system looking for a model of how to incorporate 21st Century Skills into their curriculum needs to reference this book. Practical ideas and implenetations that can be adapted to current core curriculas are included along with a DVD for professional development opportunities.
My copy is heavily tagged, underlined, and well-used.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
A Readable and Provocative Argument for Rethinking Education Jun 07, 2010
By Scott Weighart
"Scott Weighart"
I had the opportunity to hear Charles Fadel speak recently, and he really impressed me. His basic theme was that American students are falling behind the rest of the world--particularly China and India--with regard to skilled workers. US students are particularly hurting in math and science performance, and that's where many of the best career opportunities will be in the next few decades. How do we address this? We need more emphasis on skills, not just knowledge, and on real-world relevance.
Thus inspired, I picked up a copy of 21st Century Skills. I wasn't disappointed. It's a highly readable book that asks us to embrace the need for change in education and learning. How can we get students to love learning while simultaneously ensuring that they are equipped to compete in the global economy?
After providing some brief historical context, the book examines what it will take to be successful as students, workers, and citizens in the 21st century. Digital literacy is one key component, but there is also a substantial emphasis on any number of soft skills: problem solving; teamwork; initiative; flexibility; and so forth. The authors proceed to advocate for "powerful learning," which is built on collaborative small-group learning--often revolving around a problem or project.
They conclude by describing how we can "retool" schooling to meet the human resource needs of the new century while creating an educational system that truly engages young people.
21st Century Skills is a must-read for educators, parents, managers, and government policymakers, but it also would be of interest to anyone looking to understand the ways in which our educational system needs to be modified to ensure that the US does not continue to lose ground globally in the education race.
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