Critical 21st-Century Skills

Preserving the world for the future generation is the responsibility of the current generation.

--Jing Chen

Collaboration and teamwork

Creativity and imagination

Critical thinking

Problem-solving

Creativity and Imagination: Turning Trash into Treasure (TTT)

There are a plethora of ways to turn trash into useful products that we often buy in stores. One of the ways to lessen the amount of waste is to teach our students from early on how to reuse recycled material. One can find countless amount of videos presenting creative and imaginative methods of turning trash into treasure like the video above. Teachers and parents can teach children from a young age to reimagine trash and how to make it useful again. These skills can be practiced and learned across all STEAM classes. The combination of creativity and imagination in reuse projects will help students see solutions in the face of problems.

(Jing)

Communication

Let your voice be heard!

-- Charlotte Mendoza

Interviews

Interviewing requires students to listen, focus, think on their feet, and react appropriately to what the other person says. When students plan for an interview, they need to assess what they don’t know—a metacognitive skill—and learn a lot about the interview subject because otherwise the interview will be awkward. This is real life, with real consequences if they’re unprepared and a real payoff if they do well—the heart of project-based learning.

Listening and really trying to appreciate where the other person is coming from is also an exercise in empathy and discovering how to connect. (Clapman, L., April 20,2020)

Students will interview advocates, leaders and the community. In order to gain more knowledge and learn the importance of waste management is thru the advocates. They have more experience and has enough data to show and encourage the public. Interviewing the leaders to know their response in handling and implementing waste management is also essential. The community will tell us their habits, experience and contribution in this movement. Their response and reaction is also essential in helping the leaders to implement their actions effectively.

Surveys

You can collect information about the behaviors, needs, and opinions using surveys. Surveys can be used to find out attitudes and reactions, to measure client satisfaction, to gauge opinions about various issues, and to add credibility to your research. Surveys are a primary source of information -- that is, you directly ask someone for a response to a question, rather than using any secondary sources like written records.

You can use surveys to measure ideas or opinions about community issues related to your initiative. For example, you may want to know how many people use your services, what users think about your services, what new users expect from your services, and whether users are satisfied with what you provide. (Hampton, C., Vilela, M.,)

The Waste Management survey will give us information about people's knowledge and reactions. It will provide data on community's awareness, if there are public bodies providing waste management services, efficiency of people leading activities, financial aspects and the effect of the waste management to the lives of the residents and businesses. This data can encourage more people to support and sustain it.

Collaboration and Teamwork

Glenn Rulite

“Alone we can do so little, together; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller

Teamwork means the act of bringing several individuals together in order to efficiently and effectively complete a project (Harrin, 2020). Teamwork allows everybody to work together, trust each other, and overcome obstacles to get things done. Any projects or programs either big or small, become more powerful when paired up with collaboration. Collaboration, in the same way, means working together to solve a problem, complete a task, or create a product.

Teamwork and collaboration is essential in accomplishing a project because everybody has the opportunity to be part of it, shared their ideas, and their expertise, just like the saying mentioned above, if everybody participates, a lot of things can be successfully achieved. Waste management project is very relevant as the world population is increasing and so waste disposal became a huge threat to our environment. Creating such a project is significant because it helps reduce the effects of waste on the environment, health, and so on.

Students will meet and discuss the project and share ideas on how to produce and implement the output. With teamwork and collaboration, all the necessary data gathered will be analyzed, determine the problem, find a solution, and work together to create the project.

Information, Media & Technology Skills

By Charlotte Mendoza

Information Literacy

Accessing and evaluating the information about waste management is essential to this project. Credible information and sources will help solve the problems or issues at hand.

Media Literacy

It is important to understand and examine how people will people interpret the messages they see in a media campaign for waste management. Choosing the right media platform and considering the diverse and multi-cultural environments may influence the public's beliefs and behaviors that can result to a failed or successful strategy in gaining support for this project.

Technology Literacy

The use of digital technologies in accessing the information and spreading the message is vital in the success of waste management. Nowadays, people of all age have an access to technology. By leveraging on this opportunity through creating creative awareness will get the attention of the public.

Critical Thinking

By: Maria Patricia Umali

Critical thinking is one of the hardest 21st Century Skill to develop. It is the ability to solve problems, the ability to think clearly and rationally. This is a way of approaching a problem. It allows to divide or deconstruct the situation. Critical thinkers will identify, analyze and solve the problem rather than coming up with the answer or solution without asking questions, without investigating and doing further research. There are ways to improve critical thinking skills for our learners. First, know the problem. break it down by formulating the question. Know what the main purpose is. After answering multiple questions, ask a follow-up question to support further investigation. Second, gather information. ask people for feedback, conduct some interviews or do further research. Third, apply the information. What are the interpretations to the possible solution? Fourth, consider some implications, so there's always a way to tweak the solution. Fifth, explore other points of view.

Problem Solving

Problem-solving is a mental process that involves discovering, analyzing, and solving problems. The ultimate goal of problem-solving is to overcome obstacles and find a solution that best resolves the issue. (Using Problem-Solving Strategies to Finding a Solution, n.d.)

Students need to learn to find solutions how to solve any problems that they may encounter. Whether be at school, or working on homework, but in life in general. Most especially when working on a project and how to make the project work and be successful. Students solve any issues regarding the output of the project, its implementation, and whether the objective was achieved.

Glenn Rulite

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