ASSIGNMENT NO.

1. Why is it important to acquire the 21st century skills

All learners need fresh skills and expertise in this globally and digitally
linked world to succeed, from cradle to career. Opportunities to learn 21st-
century skills are vital if we want to prepare our youngsters for success in
school, work and life. These skills of the 21st century are more important than
ever before to students today. Not only do they provide a foundation for
effective classroom learning, but they also ensure that learners can succeed
in an environment where change is constant and learning never stops. And
they are also tremendously important for the well-being of our country. To
ensure our success in the global economy, our business environment needs a
workforce with these skills.

2. How significant are the five life skills to you as a student?

In the classroom and in the world beyond, life skills equip students to
succeed. Flexibility, initiative, social skills, sustainability, and leadership are
the life skills of the 21st century. The ability to evolve and adapt is crucial to
success, considering the rapid pace of change in our society. Students need
to learn to easily analyze what is going on around them and make
adjustments, all the while keeping their goals at the forefront of their minds.
Spinelessness is not flexibility. In reality, to allow the individual to move while
remaining upright with eyes on the prize, a spine needs to be flexible.
Additionally, the entrepreneurial spirit, the desire to move forward with an
idea and take the risk of bringing it to fruition, is focused on initiative.
Entrepreneurs need the changing economic environment. Students need to
know how to set goals for themselves, prepare how their goals will be
accomplished, and execute their plans. Once students feel comfortable
charting their own course, they can start the activity quickly. Very important for
students, for it deepens more their critical thinking on what particular action
should do when plight may come or for improvement and fostering of self.
Now, human beings have always been social creatures, related to a tribe
of a few hundred others and relying on them. Technology now allows people
to belong to several tribes—students at the same school, friends on
Facebook, colleagues on social media, fans on fan pages, gamers on
massively multiplayer video games. Social skills are important in many of
these settings. There are actual human beings with real emotions, feelings
and needs on the other end, whether students are having a face-to-face
meeting or are tweeting with hundreds of strangers. And social skills are a key
to success as job environments become more collaborative. Social skill is
very essential since without interaction there’s no information. For students’
acquisition of knowledge and experiences constant interchanging of
information is vital thus social skills hold an important role.
Productivity. In language, speaking and writing are productive abilities.
These abilities are very important because to create language, learners need
to express words and write. By listening to conversations, songs, videos,
podcasts, audiobooks and also by reading comprehension, newspapers,
poems, books, etc., learners receive language. Speaking and writing skills are
important because they enable students to practice real-life activities in the
classrooms and can assist with day-to-day communication particularly in a
foreign country, to have at least the basic knowledge of sentence construction
in the relevant foreign language to communicate more easily. These two
talents can be used in a classroom as a barometer to check how well students
have learned. Being productive is important since it’s not only about expertise
on contents but also the holistic capability of a learner; also possessed
attitudes and ethics.
During their schooling, it is crucial for students to experience leadership
opportunities, to learn the art of building relationships within teams, creating
identities and effectively achieving tasks. It also offers a chance to learn how
to recognize and show good communication and interpersonal skills.
However, they learn these skills if students are continuously in the role of
followers. They need to be the instructor sometimes and inquiry helps them to
do so. Group assignments often enable students to take on duties of
leadership. Inquire offers many tasks in groups that can be completed. Thus it
so significant for a student because it will hone his independence and
creativity in addressing problems as well as for the success of the group he
handled.

3. How will you teach students about the three literacy skills? What are the
activities involved?

Often they're called IMT skills, and in digital understanding they're each
concerned with a different aspect. Information literacy: Knowledge of facts,
figures, statistics and information. Media literacy: Awareness of the strategies
and channels in which data is released. And, Technology literacy:
Understanding the machines that allow the age of information
The challenges of fake news, disinformation from social media, and
lightning-fast dissemination of information have made it dangerous to manage
digital resources - unless treated them correctly. One of the big skills of the
21st century that students need to master to excel is knowledge literacy. With
logical thinking abilities, it sharpens their brains, and it empowers them to
distinguish fact and fiction. But how do you teach something so complicated
and technical? These must be done by a teacher: define information literacy,
display examples of trustworthy and untrustworthy data, define what makes
an online source trustworthy, promote critical thinking, and implement other
skills of the 21st century. Activities like -asking learners to ask basic questions
about subjects that concern them. Help them make a strategy for collecting
knowledge about the topics until they have their questions. To interpret and
repackage the data they are researching, direct students to the tools and
allocate them meaningful, technology-rich methods.
Media literacy is used to teach students across different media in the
classroom to evaluate, understand, and express their opinions. Text, film,
television, visual arts, audio, and more are part of the word 'internet'.
Teaching media literacy is really about presenting the students with different
points of view and helping them appreciate the discrepancies and challenges
each poses. A teacher could teach students about Dr. Jose Rizal, for
instance. The teacher might use a textbook that explains the life and
achievements of Dr. Rizal to improve media literacy and then show a video
clip of a literary pieces he made. The students should read a poem about Dr.
Rizal the next day and then compare the textbook and the clip to the poem in
a brief written assignment. Students were able to see art made by people who
were part of the Civil Rights Movement the next day while listening to the
song 'Bayan Ko' by Freddie Aguilar. Students were able to use all the material
they explored in class to compose a final reflective essay about how Dr. Rizal,
the Civil Rights Movement, and popular culture worked together to create the
life we live. There are also some activities useful suchlike, dissecting Logos,
finding movie messages, differentiating media and many more.
Now lastly Technology literacy. Undeniably our education today is more
on usage of technology and somewhat youth mostly are used to it. The only
thing a teacher can to is the ethics and integration of it in learning. Examples
are powerpoint presentation, email sending and receiving of data, and even in
gathering information with the use of websites, also in statistics. That’s why
we have some apparent computer laboratories in our school. This literacy
somewhat innate in today’s generation, and the only thing facilitator can do is
guide them and ensure the use of technology is ethical. Some activities like
making essay and eventually checking it on a webpage about plagiarism rate,
creating animations and design in powerpoint, and many things depending on
the initiative of the teacher.

4. Why should collaboration be part of the 21st century skills, when in fact a
person can learn and be productive by himself?

Collaboration as a discipline in the 21 st century becomes more

important than ever as people's skill sets become more specialized.
Collaboration is when for the purpose of a common aim, initiative, or mission,
a group of people come together and contribute their expertise. It's a
photographer working to build a cover picture with a designer, or a technology
department meeting periodically with the marketing team to plug in quarterly
targets. In other words, the method of group work is collaboration. But it's a
learned skill as well. The result of the group project will profoundly influence
how well you collaborate with others.
Indeed, this skill is very important for apparent globalization and
internationalization are rampant. The need of teamwork and collaboration in
other people, group, or other country is vital in worlds development, this would
promote new inventions that make human living better. We often heard no
man is an island, and yes this is true in this era because isolation of one will
consequently make him stagnant and misinformed, since our society is
dynamic that keeps on leaping. Moreover, with this skill, mistakes would not
be often, openness of all ideas and factual findings will make a particular aim
or goal reachable, for instance, in building a grandeur infrastructure, it
composed not only by one engineer but many so that failure will be mitigated.
Teams who work together will only have the ability to learn from each other,
their errors, accomplishments, defeats, workflow, etc., they can also gain an
understanding of the experience of the other person. You have an opportunity
to hear their side of things: their points of pain, goals, even their thinking.
Which can be incredibly useful when you go forward working together.