The Huffington Post – David Scott Clegg
“21st century skills. Throughout the world, we are talking about 21st century skills as if these particular skills have found their place in this particular time in the evolution of humanity. For those less familiar, the skills I speak of include: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, adaptability…So how is it we have arrived at these particular skills, abilities as current food for thought? Why so much attention paid to them at this time?…As a global society, we have achieved unprecedented means of acquiring vast amounts of data, knowledge, information…Yet knowledge unto itself is a dead end, unless it is brought into functioning relationship with situations, circumstances, issues and events…With these 21st century skills we are really speaking of the bridge-building skills and abilities required to put knowledge and information into working action, responsibly so.”(more)