Skills of the Twenty-First Century

  • 21st Century skills are 12 abilities that today’s students need to succeed in their careers during the Information Age.

    The twelve 21st Century skills are: 

    1. Critical thinking

    2. Creativity

    3. Collaboration

    4. Communication

    5. Information literacy

    6. Media literacy

    7. Technology literacy

    8. Flexibility

    9. Leadership

    10. Initiative

    11. Productivity

    12. Social skills

    These skills are intended to help students keep up with the lightning-pace of today’s modern markets. Each skill is unique in how it helps students, but they all have one quality in common.

  • Which Skills did The Project Improve in your students?

    Shifaa Aldgeim, Jordan

    I think all the 12 that mentioned above

    Türkan Erişkin Çağlayan İlkokulu Manavgat / Antalya

    Imagination increases.
    Gains 3 Dimensional Thinking Skills.
    Learn and use Geometry and Math without noticing.
    It acquires artistic spirit and talent.
    Space intelligence develops.

    Hülya Yücel/Şehit Emrah Horoz İho

    With the project, my students gained critical thinking, interpretation, collaboration, efficient working, sharing, research and problem solving skills.

    Dorota Stolarska Poland

    Using the Internet, English, students learned what augmented reality is. They gained knowledge in geography and biology.

    ÜLKÜ ÇAKAR ZÜBEYDE HANİM ANAOKULU BİNGÖL TURKEY

    The project developed the skills of Creativity, questioning, problem solving, and producing.

    Binnaz Çetin ESKİŞEHİR

    My students gained creativity , critical thinking ,Using ICT and internet ,
    using augmented reality apps ,they learnt about geograpy and biology and space science , they gained critical thinking and problem solving .

    Şebnem DAĞDEVİREN İ.V. DUMLUPINAR MIDDLE SCHOOL

    Using the technology in the classroom and at home improved my pupils’ Creativity,productivity because they made a lot of product that we can observe,media literacy because they searched on the net,tecnology because they saw how they can use these AR apps in the lessons

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    Marinela Boras, TRGOS, Croatia

    My students improved all twelve above mentioned skills while working on this project.

    Cornelia Dinescu, Luizi-Călugăra School, Bacău, Romania

    All skills presented above and especially creativity.

    Ondrej Cerny, Most, Czech Republic

    Just watching work of others brought to my pupils will to prepare theit own projects. Even if they had problems with technical equipment (sometimes old mobiles etc.), they improved their creativity, communication skills, technology and media literacy... We are looking forward to use AR in our normal lessons (I haven't seen my students face-to-face from March 11...).