Trends, Networks and Critical thinking in LATEST 21ST CENTURY SKILLS:

the21st century
LEARNING SKILLS- teaches students about the
ST
21 CENTURY SKILLS mental processes required to adapt and
improve upon a modern work environment.
THE FIRST SET OF 21ST CENTURY SKILLS BY
4 C's
SIEMENS:
Critical thinking- finding solutions to problems.
ANCHORING: Staying focused on important
tasks while undergoing a deluge of distractions. Creativity- thinking outside the box.

FILTERING: Managing knowledge flow and Collaboration- working with others.

extracting important elements.
CONNECTING WITH EACH OTHER: Building
networks in order to continue to stay current
and informed.
BEING HUMAN TOGETHER: Interacting at a
human, not only utilitarian, level to form social
spaces
Communication- talking to others.
LITERACY SKILLS- focuses on how students can
discern facts, publishing outlets, and the
technology behind them.
Information literacy: Understanding facts,
figures, statistics, and data.

CREATING AND DERIVING MEANING: Media literacy: Understanding the methods

Understanding implications, comprehending
meaning and impact.
EVALUATION AND AUTHENTICATION:
Determining the value of knowledge and
ensuring authenticity.
ALTERED PROCESSES OF VALIDATION:
Validating people and ideas within appropriate
context.
and outlets in which information is published.
Technology literacy: Understanding the
machines that make the Information Age
possible
LIFE SKILLS is the final category. Also called
FLIPS, these skills all pertain to someone’s
personal life, but they also bleed into
professional settings.

CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING: Employing Flexibility: Deviating from plans as needed.
standards of thinking, knowing the box before
Leadership: Motivating a team to accomplish a
going outside the box.
goal.
PATTERN RECOGNITION: Decision-making
Initiative: Starting projects, strategies, and
process in defining a problem.
plans on one’s own
NAVIGATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE
Productivity: Maintaining efficiency in an age of
LANDSCAPE: Navigating between repositories,
distractions
people, technology and ideas while achieving
intended purposes. Social skills: Meeting and networking with
others for mutual benefit.
ACCEPTANCE OF UNCERTAINTY: Balancing
what is known with the unknown to see how
existing knowledge relates to what we do not
know.

CONTEXTUALIZING: Careful consideration of

the situation.
 TRENDS AND FADS
•Technological Factors include ecological and
TREND is a gradual change or development that environmental aspects, such as R&D
produces a particular result. activity, automation, technology incentives and
the rate of technological change.
FAD is something, such as an interest or
fashion, that is very popular for a short time.

ELEMENTS OF A TREND: SWOT ANALYSIS is a situational analysis tool for

company leaders that involves assessing
1.Duration of Time strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and
2.Acceptability threats.
3.Cultural Basis
4.Transitory Increase or Decrease Good luck!

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NEURAL NETWORKS Prepared by: mcsb

TYPES OF THINKING:

INTUITIVE THINKING is "quick and ready

insight". It means having the ability to
understand or know something without any
direct evidence or reasoning process.

STRATEGIC THINKING is the process of

conducting research on the business
environment within which an organization itself
in order to formulate strategy.

Tools Of Strategic Analysis:

PEST ANALYSIS describes a framework of macro

environmental factors used in the
environmental scanning component of strategic
management.

•Political Factors are how and to what degree a

government intervenes in the economy.

•Economic Factors include economic growth,

interest rates, exchange rates and the inflation
rate.

•Social Factors include the cultural aspects and

include health consciousness, population
growth rate, age distribution, career attitudes
and emphasis on safety.