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Essential Skills for the 21st Century Workp lace: Keys to Succeeding in the Global Economy

Ken KayPresident, Partnership for 21st Century Skills

Ed ReillyCEO, AMA

Charlie KreitzbergCEO, Cognetics Corporation

Essential Skills for the 21 st Century Workplace:Keys to Succeeding in the Global Economy


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Todays Speakers

Ken Kay is president of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, anorganization dedicated to promoting a new vision of what studentsneed to be successful in a globally competitive economy. Ken alsoserves as the CEO and co-founder of the e-Luminate Group, aneducation consulting firm specializing in marketing communications .

Charles B. Kreitzberg founded Cognetics Corporation in 1982. Dr.Kreitzberg, who is currently CEO of Cognetics, was Director of

Technology Research/Development at the Educational TestingService in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1972, with his long-timecolleague Ben Shneiderman, he published one of the first books onusability: The Elements of Fortran Style .

Edward T. Reilly is president and chief executive officer of AmericanManagement Association. Reilly previously served as president andchief executive officer of Big Flower Holdings, Inc. Prior to that, hespent over 25 years in a variety of senior executive positions with

The McGraw-Hill Companies.


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What is the Partnership for 21 st Century Skills?

What is thePartnership for 21 st Century Skills?

www.21stcenturyskills.org


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PS21 Members


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M e a n t a s

k i n p u t a s

p e r c e n t i

l e s o

f t h e

1 9 6 0 t a s

k d i s t r

i b u t i o n

Economy-wide measures of routine and non-routine task input (US)

(Levy and Murnane)

How the demand for skills has changed


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What skills are most important for jobsuccess when hiring a High School graduate?

Why 21 st Century Skills?


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Of the High School Students that yourecently hired, what were their deficiencies?



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What skills and content areas will begrowing in importance in the next five years?



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Skills Development

We need todevelop the

life, learning andinnovation skillsthat are most importantin the workplace


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Educational Community Focus

Business Community Focus

The P21 Framework


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Core Subjects Economics English Government Arts History Geography Reading or Language

Arts Mathematics Science World Languages Civics

Core Subjects Economics English Government Arts History Geography Reading or Language

Arts Mathematics Science World Languages Civics

21 st CenturyThemes

Global Awareness Financial, Economic,

Business & EntrepreneurshipLiteracy

Civic Literacy Health Literacy

21 st CenturyThemes

Global Awareness Financial, Economic,

Business & EntrepreneurshipLiteracy

Civic Literacy Health Literacy

The P21 Framework


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Information, Media &Technology Skills

Information Literacy Media Literacy ICT (Information,Communications &Technology) Literacy

Information, Media &Technology Skills

Information Literacy Media Literacy ICT (Information,Communications &

Technology) Literacy

The P21 Framework


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Life & Career Skills Flexibility & Adaptability Initiative & Self-Direction

Social & Cross-Cultural Skills Productivity & Accountability

Leadership & Responsibility

Life & Career Skills Flexibility & Adaptability Initiative & Self-Direction

Social & Cross-Cultural Skills Productivity & Accountability

Leadership & Responsibility

The P21 Framework


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Learning & Innovation Skills Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

Creativity & Innovation Communication & Collaboration

Learning & Innovation Skills Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

Creativity & Innovation Communication & Collaboration

The P21 Framework


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21 st Century Skills Framework


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Are your students: Problem solvers?

Good communicators? Good collaborators? Information and technology literate?

Innovative and creative? Globally competent? Financially literate?

Critical thinkers?

Conclusion


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Are our students ready forthe new global economy?

Conclusion


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Why We Need Better Critical Thinking

The Financial Meltdown

The Challenger Explosion

Enron

September 11

and many more


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21 st Century Skills

Were in a time of great change

with no road-map.


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Economic Propositions

We need an educatedpopulation that can deal withissues beyond than the massreproduction of productsNeed to be able to think clearly


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The 21 st Century Corporation

Flatter organizationsCompanies expectworkers to act and reactacross the boardSpeed and flexibilityWorkers need to thinklike a CEO

What is the mission andthe vision of theorganization?


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Global Competition

Program for International Student

Assessment (PISA) exam American students repeatedly score lower than international students

International students focus on criticalthinking, problem solving, and appliedlearning

American students focus on rotememorization


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Real Coin of the Realm

In the 21 st century, the real coin of the realm is, can students look at

material they never have seen before and know what to do with it?

Dr. John Bransford


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C i i l Thi ki i h F d i f M K Skill


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Critical Thinking is the Foundation for Many Key Skills

Critical Thinking

Communication CollaborationGlobal

Awareness

Technology Fluency

Life & Career Skills

Learning & Innovation Skills


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Critical Thinking for Business

What does critical thinking mean

in terms of business?


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Critical thinking for everybody

Every worker needs to be able to think

criticallyWhat is the value you add to thecompany?

The key to surviving the work worldEven at the cash register, criticalthinking for:

Crisis managementCustomer service


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What is the big picture?

Everyone makes a contribution

At Dell, 40% of productivityimprovement came from the peopledoing the online assembly

Improvement starts from the bottom up


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What can we do?

What can we do?


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What can we do in schools?

We need to be intentional and purposefulStudents need to aspire to critical thinking

Teach problem-solvingProject/challenge based learningSelf-direction


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Self-management

At Apple, if somebodyneeds to be managed,

theyre no longer employable.

Agile Critical Thinking


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Agile Critical Thinking

Action oriented

Real World SituationsTaught Using On-line Social Learning

CCritical


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Teaching Critical Thinking

Many, many examples

Must understand the domain to workwithinEx. Healthcare thinking is different from IT

How to influence the use of ideasPeer-mediation as mentoring

Social media, computing, 21st

centurytechnology

Emphasizing 21 st Century Skills


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Emphasizing 21 Century Skills

In the Schools In the Workplace

T hi C i i l Thi ki


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Teaching Critical Thinking

We need to be on a continuousimprovement cycle in a global contextin which everybody is headed in thisdirection, or must be to compete in

the global race.


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Content or Skills?

Its not a question of content OR skills

But of content AND skills

CONTENT! SKILLS!

Do Everything!


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Do Everything!

Punt, pass, and kick AND read the playbook!

Need a fusion of content and skills

Technology


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Technology

Content is not all thats importantMore than turning on the machine

How to use technology to:Critically thinkCommunicate

Problem solveCollaborate


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Technology

Its not just about

teaching people to usetechnologybut getting people to understand how to innovate with

technology

C i it


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Curiosity

How are things different? How arethings working?

These are the keys to moving forward


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Curiosity, Motivation, Drive, Self-Direction

CuriosityDrive

Motivation Self Direction

Curiosity should be encouragedYoung people are not taught to define the next

step on their ownWhat are we doing in our culture to encourage

this?


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AMA Solution


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AMA Solution

Critical ThinkingSeminar #2533

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assumptions, evaluate arguments or draw conclusions Know how to take abstract ideas and make them more tangible Be more aware of how emotion, time pressure, style and limited

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