21st Century Skills

A broad set of knowledge, skills, habits and traits that are important to succeed in today's world

As people learn to read, write, and participate on the web, a cross-cutting set of 21C Skills emerge as skills critical to success in today’s world. They enable individuals to become teachers, advocates, and community leaders to leverage and advance the web as an open and public resource. The following 21C Skills correspond to the specific web literacy skills indicated below:

Problem-Solving

Using research, analysis, rapid prototyping, and feedback to formulate a problem and develop, test, and refine the solution/plan.

competencies

Identifying and defining a specific problem, challenge, or questions to investigate based on sound research and relevant data.

Generating relevant questions based on observations.

Conducting independent research to develop hypothesis and research plan to solve the problem.

Proposing knowledge-based explanations to develop hypothesis and research plan to solve the problem.

Applying feedback, data, and research to revise and iterate on the plan as a part of the process.