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Zuania Tollinchi Velázquez                        José A. Mariani Vázquez

Luis Villanueva Pagan                        Génesis Yudmé Galán Canales 

Lizamarie Rojas Rodríguez

English 3103-115

Petra E. Avillan-Leon

Summary

21st Century Skills: The Challenges Ahead

Andrew J. Rotherham and Daniel Willingham

According to Rotherham and Willingham to be successful today, the society like business leaders, politicians and educators believe that students need these skills, but they are not part of the teaching process in the 21st century. What can we do? The system is never going to change but is a task of the teacher or professor to provide the newest education, of course, but inside the lines of the system. The authors explain that these skills are taught in private schools who has the instruments or in others words the money to provide each student the latest improvement in education. What about public schools? In the system there are good and bad teachers but is the students who seek their own education. They need to collaborate with each other to ensure, not only the privileged ones, a rich education in all parts. Critical thinking, problem solving, information literacy and global awareness are not new skills. In this point of the century we need others skills to survive in this highly qualified world of technology. The students require complex challenges. Like Rotherham and Willingham said “revamp human capital education in particular how teachers are trained” because they are in charge to the first steps of motivating the future societies.

Skill and knowledge are not separates things, they are connected. Knowledge can help us see the core of a problem but to resolve it you would need thinking and problem solving skills to work through it. There are other situations where we have a particular thinking skill but content knowledge is necessary if we are to use our thinking skill. For example, if you want to criticize the information that is written in a Puerto Rican’s history book, you would have to know this resources. In that way, you need content knowledge to use your skills properly and effectively. Skills reside in the learner’s brain while content knowledge can be found in a lot of places. Therefore, skills can be seen as essential and content knowledge as desirable.

The 21st century curriculum is from 1900’s this mean that is an old one, now there is too much knowledge. One issue of the curriculum is that we know how to teach math and science but can’t teach self-direction, collaboration, creativity and innovation the same way. What the plan of the 21st century skills purpose is to give students and experience to develop these skills. Education leaders also have to know which skills are teachable and essential. The idea of the 21st century skill curriculum is to “teach skills in the content knowledge and to treat both as equally important’ (Rotherham; Willingham)

There has been greater emphasis on skills that has important effect for teacher’s learning. The mission is for the teachers to succeed where past generations have failed. Advocates of the 21st century skills favor students-centered methods: problem-based learning, project-based learning that allows students to collaborate and engage with the community, some of those methods are found in textbooks, teachers believe it’s effective but teachers don’t use them. Another problem is that class sizes are reduced, teachers don’t change their teaching strategies. Sometimes the system doesn’t give the teachers time to share their expertise.

A problem to solve in this system are the tests and assignments in the schools. Most of them are easy and not challenging in their levels of education. They should make assignments and tests that develop creativity, knowledge and skills learned in class.

Works Cited

Andrew, Rotherham J. and Willingham Daniel. "21st Century Skills: The Challenges Ahead." Eductional Leadership (2009): 16-21.

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Professor. Petra Avillan

ING 3103 sec.123

30 August 2016

21st Century Education Skills

           What are 21st century skills? 21st century means that it’s not 20th century not 19th, meaning that things like time evolve.There will be a major population of indians and the language that most people will speak in China is english. I believe that this is a true statement because english  will become more useful  as  a universal language, nowadays practically everyone speaks english or has to learn english. Through time people discover new things more each and every year. Since technology has been added to schools use, it has permitted students to get information much faster. Since the way we learn is also changing, it is necessary that the way we are taught also changes. In the video of 21st skills is said that teachers should have a more dynamic method of teaching and we agree to this. Ordinary teaching methods are so boring, that people nowadays don’t feel the need to learn but feel obligated. We should use technology so we can evolve or change and use the best of it. Technology is very important for teaching and teachers should make more dynamic classes with technology. We must implement technology so we can be part of this new era or education and learning.

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English 3103-141

Prof. Petra Avillán

Xavier de la Cruz, Carlos Díaz, Marielisa Ferrer, Adriana Negron 

August 23, 2016

Our Response to Reading and Videos

Education in the 21^st Century

            “Education in the 21^st Century” is a video presented by the Smithsonian Student Travels that lets us know how education, technology, and life has evolved and created what is now the 21^st century. The United States population in nearly the same amount of people that have been able to learn and speak the English language in China and there are more than 450,000 words in the English language. That is seven percent of what Shakespeare could’ve used in his time. This demonstrates the evolution of our knowledge and the way things expand itself throughout the whole entire world with technology. Many think China is what will take over and that is what has been taught and said because of the economic growth they have, but in reality India is expected to be the most populous nation by 2025 and one in four worlds workers will be Indians. Other than the growth in populations another thing that has been growing throughout the entire world is the control that technology has on us. The digital growth in the universe in the past five years has been by 1,000%. Technology isn’t only a personal daily use now, but it is also used and needed for education. Forty-six percent of teachers say their homework will require technology to be done and ninety-four percent of students say their homework requires technology. This is the information that demonstrates that us as human beings is this society not only use technology as an advancement, but depend on it to be able to keep moving forward. In the 21^st century it isn’t and shouldn’t only be about teaching and learning technology, but by using it to create cultural awareness, creativity, problem solving, innovation, communication, and so on and so forth. All of these qualities are what help share, evolve, and make an advancement of our knowledge with others throughout the world. All of this information that has been shared with us through the video is what distinguishes the 21^st century from the 17^th, 18^th, and 19^th centuries.

EFSmithsonian. "What Is 21st Century Education?" YouTube. YouTube, 2012. Web. 28 Aug. 2016.

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