21st century education (class blog)

The 21st century skills (from google doc) are as follows: Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Oral/Written Communications, Citizenship/Global Studies, Career Studies, and Content and Research. I think that these are some excellent skills to go about teaching with, but however I do not think that schools are properly being set up for them. As soon to be new teachers, we are being taught these skills, but I do not believe that the school systems are inquiring these skills at the same level as we are learning them. Many schools (I will not say all) still push upon students skills like memorization. We are being taught different techniques, and when we enter the school systems, our students will not be acustom to these measures. I think that school systems need to inquire these new 21st century skills more efficiently.