Daniel Keegan
21st Century Skills at OMS
In an increasingly complex, demanding and competitive 21st century, students need to learn more than the 3R’s they are tested on in school. It’s time to help them go “above & beyond”, by embracing the 4Cs - communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity.
Creativity/Innovation
“Creativity is as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.”
- Sir Kenneth Robinson
Communication
On effective work teams:
“...the talk and the work, the communication and the practice are inseparable.”
- John Seeley Brown & Paul Duguid
Collaboration
"... a large group of diverse individuals will come up with better and more robust forecasts and make more intelligent decisions than even the most skilled ‘decision maker."
- James Surowiecki
Critical Thinking
"Now more than ever, students need the intellectual power to recognize societal problems, ask good questions and develop robust investigations into them, consider possible solutions and consequences, separate evidence-based claims from parochial opinions, and communicate and act upon what they learn."
- C3 Teachers
