Teaching 21st Century Skills: Using STEM Makerspaces

Bol Partner

Any school interested in preparing students for learning and working in 21 st century academic and job settings needs this resource to explain to teachers the new skills students need and provide teachers with tools to teach and reinforce these skills. Based on the work of the Partnership for 21 st Century Skills, this action tool defines what students need to know and be able to do to succeed in a world with new technologies, global communication, social networking, and the accelerated growth of knowledge. Introduce teachers to instructional strategies that help engage students in learning critical thinking and problem solving, creativity and innovation, communication, and collaboration. And provide your faculty with instructional planning tools that make it much easier and faster to design learning opportunities that integrate 21 st century literacies into lessons in any subject. Teachers can then choose from 45 ready-to-use classroom tools for helping their students learn and practice the 21 st century skills in daily instruction. Each tool includes step-by-step instructions, suggestions for integrating technology, and reflection questions. All tools and activities in this book can help you guide students through a variety of models and processes that allow them to make analytical thinking routine.

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This book helps educators provide opportunities for their students to engage in creative and collaborative projects that blur the lines between subjects and promote problem-finding and problem-solving activities. It offers a global perspective on makerspaces through an Indian and Australian lens, illustrating the commonalities between the approach and the pedagogy in order to highlight the universal nature of these essential 21st-century skills. The book is particularly useful for science, technology and mathematics teachers, highlighting the potential of engaging in a more integrated curriculum approach to their specific discipline. It is of great interest to scholars whose research focuses on understanding 21st-century skills and how they can be taught and assessed in a school setting. It is an indispensable resource for teacher educators, school administrators, curriculum designers, policymakers and researchers in the field of science education.