21st century skills are bridge from 19th Century Skills - pragmatic, community based solutions to real-life problems. Communication, Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation, Problem Solving, Responsible Citizenship, Information Literacy

1. Education is all a matter of building bridges.
Ralph Ellison
The top ten jobs that will be in demand in 2010 didn’t
exist in 2004.
Secretary of Education, Richard Riley, 2004
The above… “example reminds us of the importance of what
I’ll call ‘factual credibility.’ ”
Walter E. Palmer (click the link)
Instead of preparing our children to support a 21st Century
economy, perhaps we should be preparing our economy to
support our children. William Farren

2. Making the paradigm shift to 21st Century classroom
will require us to do the same things we are asking
our children to do…the things we learned in college.
Copyright 2012 Skills21.org
The things our grandparents learned as children.

3. Collaboration
Innovation
Problem Solving

4. Communication
Ford & Edison radio broadcast.
Chautauqua, NY, 1929
Citizenship
Hard to see, but notice
the math literacy required
to draw a perfect six
point star on a
Literacy blackboard.

5. Perhaps we don’t need a whole new 21st
Century skill set.

6. What we need is the courage and fortitude to
transfer 19th Century skills to 21st Century
challenges.

7. A few examples of what I learned about using
technology as a means to an end.
Websites:
Staff Development 2009 CLARTI
Mr. Irish’s Web Classroom
Networking:
Linked In Slide Share
Books:
No Llorar: A Dominican Folk Song
EQ Books: Act Three
Click one, then let us know what you
think. tdirish11@yahoo.com