MindLab Week 2

This week we looked at the skills people will need to be effective in the 21 century.  ITL (Innovative Teaching and Learning) Research and Microsoft came up with 6 skills they think are the most important:

• Collaboration
• Knowledge construction
• Self-regulation/self-direction
• Real-world problem solving/innovation
• ICT for learning
• Skilled communication

We compared theses 21CS with the Key Competencies .

We are asking students to demonstrate the KC’s, how many of us as leaders are modelling them ourselves?  We need to be thinking strategically and looking forward to the future as 21C learners.  

We need to be thinking collaboratively.  Like organising cross school planning, eLearning, facilitated PD from outside sources.  We need to look at how we form links and connect with other local schools.  

Managing self is a huge one both for our students and ourselves as we attempt to manage all this new learning for ourselves.  

As leaders, we really need to think about how we model the KC’s.