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21 CLD Introduction

21st Century Skills – What are they?

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MEET THE TRAINER

I am Araoye Abdulwaheed by
name. I am an Instructional Leader
and Education System Leader
within the K-12 school system.

I am a Microsoft Innovative
Educator Expert, earning the award
three times from 2022-2022 as a
recognition by Microsoft as one of
the changemakers in education. K-12 Instructional Leader | Education System Leader
Teacher Trainer | Consultant | Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert

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 What is 21st Century Learning Design?

For discussion
Now think about what skills do you think
are required for the 21st century.
• How do we design learning environments that will
develop these skills?

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 What are the 21st century skills?

Many frameworks have been developed to

try to understand, as well as illustrate, the skills
that are required to live and work effectively in
this globally connected world of the 21st century.

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 P21 Framework for Learning in the 21st Century

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

http://www.p21.org http://www.p21.org/route21/
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 Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills
(ACT21S framework)
Ways of thinking
• Creativity and innovation
• Critical thinking, problem solving, decision making

Ways of working
• Communication
• Collaboration (teamwork)

Tools for working

• Information literacy
• ICT literacy

Living in the world

• Citizenship — local and global
• Life and career
• Personal and social responsibility
• Delivering high percentage of STEM-D Skills
From the ACT21S project: http://www.act21s.org
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 Core 21st century skills

Problem-solving and innovation Global awareness Knowledge construction

Skilled communication Self-regulation and assessment Collaboration

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 21st century learning environments

How to learn.

Gain knowledge.

Adapt to change.
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 Innovative Teaching and Learning (ITL Research)

The foundation of 21CLD is

ITL Research; a global
research program that
investigated how schools and
systems could encourage
innovative teaching practices,
and the impact innovative
teaching practices had on For more information on ILT Research, visit
student learning. www.itlresearch.com

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 ITL Research in 8 countries
National Board Russian Academy of Education &
of Education, Finland The Academy for Teachers
Training, Russia

The Schools
Network, Ministry of
England National
Education,
Indonesia

National
Ministry of
Education,
MEXICO National National Ministry
Ministry of Education,
of Education, Brunei
Senegal

New South Wales

Department of Education &
Training, Australia

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 ITL Research

Education
2009-2012 system change

Innovative School leadership

and culture

Teaching Innovative
teaching
and practices

Learning
Individuals
with skills for
life and work
today

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 Innovative teaching practices

Student centred Extending learning Embedding ICT

pedagogies • Problem-solving • By educators
• Personalised • 24/7 learning • By students
• Collaborative opportunities • Basic usage vs. higher
• Knowledge construction • Global & cultural level use (for knowledge
• Self-regulation understanding building & creativity)

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 Innovative teaching practices and 21st century learning outcomes

Students 21C Skills

Score

Learning Activity Score

Source: ITL 2011, LASW method, based on analysis by SRI International (Innovative Teaching)

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 Learning design & 21st century skills

To develop students’ 21st century skills,

teaching must change to embed those skills.

Programs are needed to provide teachers opportunities to

collaborate in designing, developing, practicing,
researching and reflecting upon new
teaching methods that embed these new
skills in learning activities.

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 Learning design & 21st century skills continued

Collaboration
Knowledge construction
Self-regulation

Real-world problem-solving and innovation

The use of ICT for learning

Skilled communication
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 21st Century Learning Design - 21CLD

Develop a deep understanding of 21st century skills and a language to describe these skills.

Framework to analyse and code learning activities to see how deeply teachers
embed opportunities for their students to develop 21st century skills.

Develop a meta language for talking about and sharing how they are
embedding the development of 21st century skills into learning design.

Collaborate in designing new learning activities that provide deeper

21st century skills development.

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 21st Century Learning Design (21CLD) part 2

Transforming education by
focusing on 21st century skills is
one of Microsoft’s focus areas,
and offering training for
teachers on the 21st Century
Learning Design (21CLD)
curriculum has been successful.

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 21st Century Learning Design (21CLD) part 3

The 21CLD curriculum builds on the

Innovative Teaching and Learning (ITL)
research methodology, providing a
collaborative, practice-based process
that helps educators transform how they
design enriching learning activities for
their students.

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 21st Century Learning Design Curriculum

21CLD Course 1 21CLD Course 2 21CLD Course 3 21CLD Course 4

Skilled Knowledge
Introducing 21CLD Collaboration Communication Construction

21CLD Course 5 21CLD Course 6 21CLD Course 7 21CLD Course 8

Real-World
Problem-Solving Use of ICT for Continuing the
Self-Regulation and Innovation Learning 21CLD Practice
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 21CLD curriculum elements

• A focus on redesigning learning to develop 21st century skills and

deepen learning of curricular goals.

• Using the new learning designs in their own teaching and analysing
the impact on learning.

• Sharing new learning activities with other educators locally and globally.

• An opportunity for educators to discuss and support each other as

they tease out the 21CLD dimensions.

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 21CLD Decision Trees and Rubrics

Collaboration Skilled Communication Knowledge Construction

Self-Regulation Real-World Problem-Solving and Innovation Use of ICT for Learning

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 21CLD OneNote

Reading ICT Tools

Anchor lessons Learning units

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 21st Century Learning Design (21CLD) part 4

Analyse and “code” learning activities to see how deeply they integrate
21st century skills.

Collaborate in designing new learning activities that provide deeper 21st

century skills development.

Examine the impact of these learning activities on students’ work.

Use ICT as part of the learning process.

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21 CLD Introduction end

21st Century Skills – What are they?

21st Century Learning Design 1.3: What are the 21st century skills? Microsoft in Education