The skills that are pivotal to achieve the 21st century pedagogy goals are :
- Critical thinking
- Active learning
- Problem solving skills
- Communicating, making connections,creating and expressing oneself in a variety of ways
- Contextualized knowledge. As you can see in the learning pyramid , uncontextualized and non-activity based learning could result in a low retention rate.
- Collaborative team work. This is mainly achieved through web2.0 technologies and social networking tools .
If you have read the UNESCO’S publication “ The four pillars of education “ you would realize that collaboration is the core element of the four pillars which are :
-Learning to know
- Lerning to do
- Learning to live together
- Learning to be
===> We need also in 21st Century (May 2012) to add #itsecurity + #cybersecurity knowledge to that list! <===