In the year - round program at Fairview Elementary School, in Modesto, California, for example (see «Power to the People,»), students benefit from an emphasis
on civic literacy and responsibility in addition to a regular academic program with about the same number of school days as traditional schools.
Not exact matches
Released June 21 by the Washington - based Partnership for 21st Century Skills, the report surveys measures that focus
on such topics as global awareness; financial, economic, business, and
civic literacy; higher - order thinking and problem - solving; interpersonal and self - directional skills; and information - and communications - technology
literacy.
, a few hip videos, some game - based learning, and a couple hands -
on projects, you can not only inform your students about
civic issues, teach critical thinking, and squeeze in media
literacy, you can get them excited about their own potential for making change in the world.
Yet just as it's wrong to place all the blame for blurring fact with fiction
on the guy in the Oval Office and the media that he deplores (and, of course, consumes in massive doses), it's also wrong to ascribe the schools» failure to combat such blurring entirely
on their inattention to subjects like
civic education and media
literacy.
Utilizing a social design approach in which participating teachers and the researcher co-construct student learning cycles focused
on the analysis, design, and sharing of digital political narratives, the study will highlight the
literacy aspects of participatory politics and its implications for re-imagining the nature and purpose of
civic expression.
Designed training
on EL /
Civics Curriculum, «From Native Language to ESL
Literacy,» incorporates MALP
«I've got to make sure the lesson focuses
on a 21st century skill,» he says, which could mean
civic responsibility, financial
literacy, global awareness, health and wellness, problem solving, resiliency and systems thinking, among others.