Category Archives: 21st Century Skills

Links on 21st C teaching…

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I’ve been giving a few presentations on 21st Century Skills and thought it’d be helpful to provide some of the links I like on this topic. If you have any you’d like me to add please do include them in the comments.

Helpful links and reports:

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Useful websites:

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Some videos I like:

Esther Wojcicki – Empowering Students

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Linda Darling-Hammond – New Learning for a Rapidly Changing World

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And what does the future look like? I like a few of the new WEF videos on The Fourth Industrial Revolution 

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and The New Vision for Education and

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21st Century Skills: MakerSpace

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If you’re interested in 21st Century Skills (like Creativity, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Communication), you should be looking into MakerSpace which now has a branch in Durban 🙂 The aim is a kind of ‘make it yourself’ drive, and helps by providing the skills, tools and training to do it. For education this might be about 3D-printing, or how to use and program an Arduino, or Robot Making (see pamphlet below). This reminded me of Stanford’s FabLearn Labs which works on a similar logic (the photo above is of a FabLearn Lab). If your school can afford these types of courses I would strongly recommend moving in this direction…

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You can find out more here – http://themakerspace.co.za/