Chapter 1: 21st Century Skills

21stcenturyskills.org

This website gives a nice overview of what 21st Century Skills are and how they are incorporated.  One of my favorite things about the site is that you can watch videos of actual classroom using 21st Century Skills and you can upload your own videos to add the community of classrooms using these skills.  On the Overview page, it gives a great figure to show what 21st Century Skills are all about.  This is a great visual because it shows that 21st Century Skills do not neglect core knowledge, but it incorporates everything together in a way that most benefit the students.  This site also lets you know what different states are doing to incorporate these skills into their schools.  You can also request to have a speaker come and address various topics pertaining to 21st Century Skills.  This could be a great resource for a professional development day.  This site also offers a guide book called a MILE Guide.  You can buy paperback copies or you can download a PDF for free.  The last aspect of the site I want to talk about it the Route21 feature.  This is an interactive tool that helps demonstrate how to integrate core knowledge with 21st Century Skills.

This site is basically an extension from the chapter in the book, which makes it a perfect site to have in the appendix.  The chapter talks briefly about what 21st Century Skills are and how to incorporate them, this site goes into great detail about everything that has to do with 21st Century Skills.