Iowa Core - 21st Century Skills
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The following paragraphs are taken from the Iowa Core Curriculum 21st Century Skills: icc_essentialconceptsskills.pdf
Within this 21st century skill framework are the common strands of learning and innovation; communication, information, and technology; and, life and career skills.
The development of the Iowa 21st century essential concepts and skills was a collaborative
process engaging the expertise of p – 16 educators, business, and industry representatives. Sources used for this work included the 1991 SCANS report, What Work Requires of Schools, and Framework for 21st Century Learning, from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. The committee surveyed the literature and endeavored to bring together the common elements of these frameworks. The members have outlined the concepts, dispositions and habits of mind believed essential for success in the 21st century.
The reality of building capacity for the 21st century is that we do not know what the work of the future will be like (Darling-Hammond, 2007) or how technology will influence health and financial issues. The challenge is to prepare students to think critically, to engage in mental activity, or habits of mind, that “…use facts to plan, order, and work toward an end; seek meaning or
explanations; are self-reflective; and use reason to question claims and make judgments…” Noddings, 2008). It may be that our task is not only to prepare students to “fit into the future” but to shape it. “…If the complex questions of the future are to be determined… by human beings…making one choice rather than another, we should educate youths - all of them - to join
in the conversation about those choices and to influence that future…” (Meier, 2008)
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