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21st Century Skills for Jobs: Enhancing Education and Learning

This article discusses the importance of 21st century skills in the workforce, including basic, technical, organizational, and company-specific skills. It also explores educational principles such as constructivist learning, cooperative learning, and scaffolding, and how they can support the development of these skills. The article concludes by highlighting the benefits of using WebQuests as a teaching tool to promote authentic and collaborative learning experiences.

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21st Century Skills for Jobs: Enhancing Education and Learning

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  1. WebQuests Jan Perkins Shelby County Schools July, 2001

  2. Workers for the 21st Century • Basic Skills • Technical Skills • Organizational Skills • Company-Specific Skills From the National Summit on 21st Century Skills for 21st Century Jobs January 12, 1999

  3. Supporting Educational Principles • Constructivist Learning Environment • Cooperative Learning • Scaffolding

  4. Constructivist Learning Environment “. . .constructivist learning experiences and appropriate classroom practices include reflective thinking and productivity; authentic activities, including student collaboration and consideration of multiple perspectives, and student access to content area experts who can model domain-specific skills. . . “ Grabe/Grabe, 1998

  5. Cooperative Learning • Improves comprehension of basic academic content • Reinforces social skills • Allows student decision making • Creates active learning environment • Boosts students’ self-esteem • Celebrates diverse learning styles • Promotes student responsibility Orlich et al. Teaching Strategies: A Guide to Better Instruction, 5/e (1998)

  6. Scaffolding • Temporary structure which provides help at specific points in the learning process • Allows learners to complete a challenging task which they would not be able to accomplish without help

  7. Scaffolding Provides... • resources • a compelling problem or task • templates and guides for student products • guidance on cognitive and social skills

  8. Traditional Learning Model

  9. Constructivist Learning Model

  10. Why WebQuests? • Provide authentic, real world experiences • Focus on understanding and transforming information • Promote cooperative learning • Provide a framework for project-based learning in a contructivist environment

  11. WebQuest Definition • Inquiry-oriented • Based on a doable, engaging task • Uses pre-defined resources from the Web (and others) • Requires the application of information in a new context

  12. WebQuest Parts • Introduction • Task • Process/Resources • Evaluation • Conclusion • Credits

  13. WebQuests Examples The Realm of Fairy Tales The Geography of FedEx Expansion Return to Web page

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