What are 21st Century Skills?
- Solve Real World Problems - anything required to be done, or requiring the doing of something that is perplexing or difficult with application to a given setting
- Self-Reflect - careful thought about your own behavior and beliefs
- Effectively collaborate - to work jointly with others or together
- Communicate across Contexts – the ability to effectively send and receive information interpersonally and in groups
- Think Critically - the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion
- Innovate - to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
- Be Flexible - susceptible of modification or adaptation
- Be Self Directed - a purpose or orientation toward a goal that serves to guide or motivate
- Be Creative - the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.
What is Personalized Learning?
Personalized learning is the tailoring of education (curriculum, pedagogy, and environments) to meet the needs of all individual learners. Technology is usually used to facilitate personalized learning environments.