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21st-century skills / Skills for the 21st century

in recent times is easy, especially when visiting sites and portals of American origin, to come across terms such as "21st-century skills", "21st-century learning" "21st-century education", "21st-century learners" ... How strange is this stuff?
Underlying these terms is the understanding that the educational institution, as we have known over the past 150 years, is an invention of the 19th century that must change to keep pace with the demands today's society. skills and goals that were instrumental in preparing students for work and life are in the industrial economy rethought and redesigned to make the people of this century, characterized by exponential growth of knowledge, globalization, technologizing.
Who decides the powers of the 21st century?
For this purpose it was created a body formed by Department of Education U.S. , the International Society for Technology in Education ( ISTE), Microsoft , Apple, Dell and Cisco called The Partnership of 21st Century Skills (P21) '

The P21 identifies six key elements in learning in the 21st century:

• Emphasize Core Subjects
• Emphasize learning skills
• Use 21st century tools to Develop learning skills
• Teach and learn in a 21st century context
• Teach and learn 21st century content
• Use 21st century assessments That measure 21st century skills.

Learning skills include: *

capacity information and communication ( media literacy, information culture and literacy) .
* thinking skills and problem-solving that include critical thinking and systems thinking , identification - problem formulation and solution , creativity and intellectual curiosity .
* interpersonal skills, quali

•   flessibilità e adattabilità
• senso di iniziativa e auto - direzione
• competenze sociali e interculturali
• produttività e responsabilità
• leadership   

The tools of the 21st century are :

• Technology information and communication between as a computer, Internet and other technologies
  audio, video and other media and strumenti multimediali
  
        Il contesto del 21 ° secolo può essere creato  
• * Rendendo i contenuti pertinenti al la vita degli studenti '
       * Avvicinando il mondo in classe
       * Tenendo gli studenti nel mondo
       * Creando   opportunità per gli studenti di interagire tra loro , con gli insegnanti e con altri adulti competenti in autentiche esperienze di apprendimento.  

I contenuti del 21 ° secolo comprendono :

     * consapevolezza globale
     * alfabetizzazione finanziaria , economica e business
     * cittadinanza
     * Health Literacy