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21
Century Skills
Presentation
By Dan Farina
EDU 652
New Skills we need to
function in the world today
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Solution Fluency
Information Fluency
Collaboration Fluency
Creativity Fluency
Media Fluency
Digital Citizenship
What is Solution Fluency?
Whole brain thinking
 Creative problem solving
 In real time
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Steps to Solve a Problem
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Define the problem
Design a solution
Apply the solution
Evaluate the Outcome
Ideas to Practice
Problem Solving in Elementary
Bella Mysteries
 Riddles
 Graphic Riddles
 2 Minute Mysteries
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What’s a Graphic Riddle?
Noon good
 Gener ation
 Youjustme
 CCCCCCC
Answers: Good after noon,
Generation gap, Just
between you and me, 7
seas
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Real World Ideas for
Older Kids Solving Problems
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Learn about famous people overcoming
failure ie Michael Jordon, Walt Disney
Learn about real world problems like
water pollution and acid rain
Real World Ideas for
Older Kids Solving Problems
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Presidents who
solved conflicts
JFK-Cuban Missile
Crisis
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Presidents who
solved conflicts
Poorly
Nixon-Watergate
Cover up
Problem Solving
in Other Areas
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Write the end of the story
Finish the Fable
Math Problems- You have $20, make
lunch or dinner for your family
Moral Dilemmas
Come up with 20 fun things to do for
free in town
Information Accuracy
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2 Parts
First -find the Data on the Internet
Second-access the data
is it accurate?
is it bias?
Helping younger students
develop a critical eye
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Can you tell what’s wrong
with this picture?
How about these?
Developing a critical eye and
Access Data
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Watch a Movie after reading a book and
look for differences
Study the differences between Fact and
Opinion
Edit Peer Writing
Developing a Critical Eye
Do Classifications ie. Apples
Study and write about the apple, can
you tell which is which?
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Critical eye about Reading
Books and Poetry
How does the author feel about
some topic…?
 How does a character feel
about some topic…?
 Read and Analyze poetry
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Research Meaning and Analyze
Nursery Rhymes and Common Terms
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Humpty Dumpty (who or what?)
Ring around the Rosy (the plague)
Idioms
Oxymorons
Internet Research Activities
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Internet Fact Scavenger Hunt
Look up Facts about History
Make students find two or more
sources that agree
Be sure to keep kids Safe
Develop an Eye for Details
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Use Blank Maps
Fill in the Details: rivers, cities,…
Developing a Critical Eye with
Games
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2 Truths and a Lie
Make a Subtle Change Game
-kid changes 3 things on self
Collaboration Fluency
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Compromise and Share
Team Work
Cooperate
Create things Together
Partnership
Collaboration Fluency
Team Work
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Put students in groups
Book Clubs
Group Projects
Group Challenges
-line up by birth date without talking
-line up by height without talking
Things to Remember with
Groups
Accountability of Groups Individuals
- pop quizzes and peer reviews
- questions to answer individually
 Consider Personalities
 Mix it Up
 Give Roles
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Assign Class Projects
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Class Books
Class Recipes
Readers Theater
Class Newsletter or Paper
Group Write
Interview Each Other
Peer Reviews
Creativity Fluency
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Art
Design
Story Telling
Using the Imagination
Create Solutions
Use Art to Solve a Problem
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The Art has to Solve a Problem
Monster in the Box
Got to Use your Mistakes, too
Give Art Projects that attempt to
Solve a problem
Use Songs to Solve a Problem
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Songs that Changed things
Peace (antiwar) songs from the 60’s
Songs that Tell a story (Camp Granada)
Story Telling and Writing
Find a story or legend to retell
- How the Opossum got it’s tail
 Story Starters for writing
 Share Family Stories you heard from a
Relative
 Study Poetry or Songs that tell a story
 Make up your own Fables
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Art and Design
Design a City of the Future
 Animate a Comic Strip of Book or Story
 Design an Educational Game for
Learning
 Come up with a New Superhero
-villains, powers and costume
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Media Fluency
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2 Parts Media Fluency
One- to understand the real Message
-how it shapes your thinking
-interpret that message
Two-Create Your Own Message on the
Best Media and Publish that Media
What students should
study to Understand Media
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Marketing Techniques
Propaganda and Debate Techniques
Scams
Spin (Political Spin)
Euphemisms
Social Etiquette
Commercials
Expose Students to Marketing,
and Branding
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Tiger Woods
Walter Payton
Michael Jordan
Elvis
Marylin Monroe
Others
Watch 60 Minutes on dead celebrities
Talk about Media Influences
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Super Bowl Commercials
Nixon Kennedy Debate
Silent Movie Stars who lost their Career
with talkies
Scams and Con artists
Marketing Tricks
Movies with Brand Placement
Music in Movies
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Discuss How Music can manipulate the
feelings of a Movie Scene
Play other music during the scene
Does it change the feeling?
Tragedy, Victorious, Horror, can students
pick the scene just by hearing the music?
Digital Citizenship
What is Integrity and Honesty?
 Why are they Important
 Document Real Life Stupidity
 Human Nature
 Discuss Cyber Bullying
 Stranger Danger for the Internet
Be wise, be safe, be weary
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Read Students Fairy Tails
with a Message
Pied Piper-story about integrity
 Red Riding Hood-talking to strangers
 Emperor Has No Cloths
 Fractured Fairy Tales
-tell the story from
the wolfs perspective
Write Your own Tale
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Manors and Social Etiquette
Wisdom
 When to talk about what
 Things we don’t Say
 Being sensitive to Others feelings
 Topics that cause Conflict
-religion, politics, money
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21 Century Skills
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Solution Fluency
Information Fluency
Collaboration Fluency
Creativity Fluency
Media Fluency
Digital Citizenship