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21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times |  | Authors: Bernie Trilling, Charles Fadel
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: Har/Com
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0470475382
Dewey Decimal Number: 370.73
EAN: 9780470475386
ASIN: 0470475382
Publication Date: October 5, 2009
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The new building blocks for learning in a complex world This 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 what twenty-first century teaching and learning can achieve. A vital resource that outlines the skills needed for students to excel in the twenty-first century - 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)
- Includes a DVD with video clips of classroom teaching
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. For more information on book visit www.21stcenturyskillsbook.com/
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 The Gospel According to P21 November 23, 2009
Lynne Munson
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Want to read a whole book about how education should be reshaped to fit the needs of America's biggest companies? Then we recommend Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel's new book, 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in our Times, a book-length ad for the content-free learning championed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Trilling is global director for the Oracle Education Foundation, a P21 board member. Fadel is global leader for education as Cisco Systems, also a P21 board member. They co-chair P21's Standards, Assessment, and Professional Development committee.
Why are 21st century skills so important? Trilling and Fadel's answer is that a "21st century skills gap" causes businesses to spend "over $200 billion a year...finding and hiring scarce, highly skilled talent, and in bringing new employees up to required skill levels through costly training programs." (p. 7) (There isn't a citation for either the existence of a "21st century skills gap" or for the $200 billion figure.)
So Trilling and Fadel argue that the skills identified as "21st century skills" by P21 (critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity and innovation, etc.) must become the basis for education because these skills "address new work skill demands" and will prepare students to "invent new and better services and products for the global marketplace." (pages 49, 56)
The authors imagine schools shifting from a "20th century model" to a "21st century model" in order to teach 21st century skills. In the 21st century school, according to Fadel and Trilling, class time would include "50 percent time for inquiry, design, and collaborative project learning and 50 percent for more traditional and direct methods of instruction." (p. 135) Why? Because "[p]rojects - defining, planning, executing, and evaluating them - have become the currency of 21st century work." (p. 82)
Here's the authors' argument in a nutshell: In order to better serve business and save the for-profit world $200 billion a year, we need to replace at least half of the curriculum in America's schools with an unproven program that puts the needs of business before the needs of students. Trilling and Fadel don't consider the possibility that there are students who might want to be scientists, doctors, teachers, artists, or any of the host of occupations that don't involve "invent[ing] new and better services and products for the global marketplace." And they neglect entirely our schools' role in the creation of knowledgeable citizens.
Jay Mathews, reviewing Trilling and Fadel's book on the Washington Post's Website recently, said that he is "trying NOT to write off the 21st century skills movement as a sham, but its leaders don't make it easy." Agreed.
 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times October 31, 2009
Dee Hartt
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
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