Christopher Doyle commented on 21st Century Skills on EdWeek recently....
Catch phrases like "21st Century Skills" become so broadly defined they
are meaningless, and more meaningless as educators apply the labels to
their irrelevant practices in hopes they can give the illusion of being
cutting edge. Certainly, we all hope to teach our content well, but that
necessitates each of us to understand how the 21st Century Skills (and
the condition leading to them and defining them) affect what it means to
be a historian (or scientist, or mathematician, or artist... or any
other noun).
Understanding those influences is an essential aspect of being an educator today.
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