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<h1>21st Century Skills</h1>
<h2>Notes by Ben Gibbs</h2>




 




The idea that there is a set of skills required for successful living in the
21st century has been about for a while, but it is only in the last 18
months or so that anyone has identified these clearly and in a way that
enables schools and others to implement them in their curriculum.

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<a href="http://www.tonywagner.com/">Tony Wagner's</a>  7 survival skills are about as
clear as it gets, and have been formed from his (Harvard-based) research
into the needs of some of the US's largest employers (see 
<a href="http://www.tonywagner.com/7-survival-skills">
here</a>  in particular).
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The <a href="http://www.p21.org/"> Partnership for 21st Century Skills </a>has taken
this a stage further and looked at how these skills might be developed into
a new curricular framework for schools (see 
<a href="http://www.p21.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=120">here</a>  in particular).
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Cisco's <a href="http://www.cisco.com/web/about/citizenship/socio-economic/21S.html">
21st Century Schools Initiative</a> is a powerful (and very well funded)
outfit that focuses on how schools can use technology to enhance the
learning of 21C skills. They've gone quite far. See 
<a href="http://www.cisco.com/web/about/citizenship/socio-economic/docs/ATC21S_Exec_Summary.pdf">this</a>  in particular. Also note that it's supported by the OECD and
forms a part of the work of the 
<a href="http://www.innovationunit.org/knowledge/our-ideas/21st-century-education">
Innovation Unit</a> in its 
<a href="http://www.getideas.org/global-education-leaders-program">Global Education Leaders Programme</a>

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