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Detailed description of diagram: 21st century skills

21st century skills and associated skills

21st century skill Associated skills 21st century skill Associated skills

critical thinking

  • analytical thinking
  • problem-solving
  • decision-making
  • reasoning
  • reflecting and evaluating
  • intellectual flexibility

creative thinking

  • innovation
  • initiative and enterprise
  • curiosity and imagination
  • creativity
  • generating and applying new ideas
  • identifying alternatives
  • seeing or making new links

communication

  • effective oral and written communication
  • using language, symbols and texts
  • communicating ideas effectively with diverse   audiences

collaboration and teamwork

  • relating to others (interacting with others)
  • recognising and using diverse perspectives
  • participating and contributing
  • community connections

personal and social skills

  • adaptability/flexibility
  • management (self, career, time, planning and   organising)
  • character (resilience, mindfulness, open- and   fair-mindedness, self-awareness)
  • leadership
  • citizenship
  • cultural awareness
  • ethical (and moral) understanding

digital literacy

  • operations and concepts
  • accessing and critically analysing information
  • being productive users of technology
  • digital citizenship (being safe, positive and   responsible online)
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