Week 1: 21st Century Skills

21st Century Skills can be taught in schools in the following subjects:

Global Awareness
Financial, Economic, Business, and Entrepreneurial Literacy
Civic Literacy
Health Literacy
Environmental Literacy

The following skills make up 21st Century Skills:
Learning and Innovation Skills- prepare students for the complexity of their future life. They should focus on Creativity, Critical Thinking and Communication.

Information Media and Technology Skills- Today's world requires thinking knowledge and content knowledge. Students must be able to critically think and be knowledgeable in the following areas,information literacy, media literacy, communication, and technology Literacy.

Students should also focus on life and career skills to be able to deal with dynamic change and anything that comes their way. Skills they should foster are flexibility, adaptability, initiative, self direction, cross-cultural skills, leadership, responsibility, productivity and accountability.

In the 21st century students will have to work on solving problems in groups, reason effectively, and communicate and collaborate with one another. If students focus on developing the skills mentioned earlier they will be able to take control of their future and manage their lives effectively.

This relates to advertising because the field is changing rapidly and most ads are designed by groups of people. Communicating with the client is the most important thing that you do. If you don't have a good relationship with them and understand their brand, you will lose their business in the long run. Also problems come up out of no where and it is important to solve them as fast as you can because it is very fast pace and clients will not put up with it. In advertising the problems are resolved by the team that you work with.

The following is a video about schools and 21st Century Skills. I found it to be very deep and profound. It got me thinking, I hope that schools think like this one and focus on embracing new technology and think forwardly. It is for the department of children and focuses on technology and collaborating.