Dear Mr. Osei!

Your question points to an important issue: case - and contextual factors of education. I found publications that you might find insightful:

1) Seidl, T. (2024). Formative Assessment of 21st Century Skills. In: Ehlers, UD., Eigbrecht, L. (eds) Creating the University of the Future. Zukunft der Hochschulbildung - Future Higher Education. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42948-5_24, Open access: Chapter Formative Assessment of 21st Century Skills

2) Schmitz, ML., Consoli, T., Antonietti, C. et al. Examining 21st century skills in BYOD schools: From programs to practice. Z f Bildungsforsch 14, 299–322 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s35834-024-00425-w, Open access:

Article Examining 21st century skills in BYOD schools: From programs...

3) Mohammod Moninoor Roshid, Md. Zulfeqar Haider,

Teaching 21st-century skills in rural secondary schools: From theory to practice, Heliyon, Volume 10, Issue 9, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e3076, Open access: Article Teaching 21st-century skills in rural secondary schools: Fro...

4)Tanantong, Tanatorn, Moolngearn, Papon, Kraiwanit, Tanpat, Limna, Pongsakorn, Rafiyya, Aishath, People Skills in the 21st Century: A Perspective on the Smart City in an Emerging Economy, Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 2024, 5211958, 9 pages, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/5211958, Open access: Article People Skills in the 21st Century: A Perspective on the Smar...

5) Siddiq, F., Olofsson, A.D., Lindberg, J.O. et al. Special issue: What will be the new normal? Digital competence and 21st-century skills: critical and emergent issues in education. Educ Inf Technol 29, 7697–7705 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-023-12067-y, Available at: Article Special issue: What will be the new normal? Digital competen...

In my view the emphasis of IT - skills will be more visible in the future due to warfare (cyber warfare, global economic turbulence, AI- technologies and metaverse).

Sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely

Thank you Dr. Szekely

I think the most important thing we can do as educators is to utilize the 21st century skills in our classrooms. If we are still playing sage on the stage, then our students aren't utilizing 21st century skills and we have no opportunity to help them grow. Education has to change from a teacher centered model to a shared responsibility model where the students are involved in their learning. As long as the system is spoonfeeding the content and there is no productive struggle in the classroom, students don't learn how to do the things that are required in real life. This doesn't mean that we need to throw everything out that we have been doing, but a real look at how to incorporate these skills gradually, as the students grow, is in order. We can't keep teaching things that don't factor into the real world, regardless of whether we are talking 21st century skills or knowledge bases. History is amazing, but how that history matters today and how it impacts the world around us is life changing. How to give credit to things we learn and use to write is amazing, but there is more than one style of citation and we might should teach that. Collaboration skills are key in the world, but are we teaching how to deal with conflict in a group setting or that when there is conflict one should go to a boss to get the problem solved? Critical thinking is so necessary, but our students have to be taught what that means and how to express those thoughts.

To make learning more tolerable and to equip with sharper vision about what is gonna happen. It makes me think about Derrida's approach.