Engage 21st Century Learning

After skimming the document “Engage 21st century skills,” I am beginning to understand how important it will be for teachers and administrators to change the way we have been teaching. We need to gain knowledge in the latest technologies so that we can prepare students for jobs we may not even know will exist in 5-10 years. There is so much more to being literate in today’s world than it was in the 1900’s (Reading, Writing, and Arithemetic)—students today need all those plus scientific, technological, global awareness, multicultural, economic, and information literacy. Students with lower income may be at a disadvantage with those students who have more economically. In return after high school many of the IT jobs pay 85% higher wages than others. It really made sense to me about the science and technology fields requiring many of the same skills. Science and technology is continuously changing and we as students and teachers need to adapt and be problem solvers. I have always known that I didn’t just teach software programs, but students needed to gain the knowledge of what a program could do for them and then be able to change every couple of years to updated versions or different platforms. Students should still be able to carry their skills over to any software and adapts. Many IT jobs pay 85% higher wages. Students with lower income may be at a disadvantage with those students who have more economically.