The Pedagogical Potential of Design Thinking for CLIL Teaching

2020 ◽  
pp. 427-446
Author(s):  
Leonor María Martínez-Serrano
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Intercultural Awareness ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Thinking Strategies ◽  
Language Pathways

This chapter examines the origins and singularity of Design Thinking as a humanistic discipline that can be successfully exploited in education. It explores the pedagogical potential inherent in Design Thinking strategies to foster creativity, critical thinking skills, and deep learning in content subjects taught through the medium of an additional language in CLIL settings. The author contends that Design Thinking will ultimately empower content teachers to rethink their teaching techniques repertoire, to redesign their CLIL practice, to cultivate inquiring minds in their classroom, to give students memorable learning experiences, and to equip them with core 21st-century competences related to creativity, critical thinking, teamwork, and intercultural awareness. Design Thinking strategies prompt learners to think out of the box and seek alternative answers to learning tasks, whilst cultivating LOTS and HOTS in Bloom's taxonomy and ensuring learning progression along both the content and language pathways.

Essential Skills for the 21st Century Workforce

2019 ◽  
pp. 134-147
Author(s):  
Maureen N. Short ◽  
Yolanda Keller-Bell
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
First Century ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Workforce Skills

This chapter contends that increasing technological innovation has disrupted and continues to disrupt the labor markets making some jobs obsolete and workers redundant. The key to success in the twenty-first century and future labor markets is to combine hard and soft skills into a comprehensive package tailored to specific needs including the ability to think clearly about complex problems, apply creative and innovation solutions to solve problems, and apply new knowledge and skills in new settings. This chapter will provide a discussion of some of the reasons underlying the demand for higher workforce skills and a descriptive overview of curricula and pedagogy that promote students' acquisition and application of critical thinking skills as well as other skills considered essential for 21st century workforce.

Optimizing K-14 Instruction to Infuse 21st Century Skills

2013 ◽  
Vol 1583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Day ◽  
Cindy Guo ◽  
Nicole Ferrari ◽  
Heather Edgecumbe ◽  
Christine Broadbridge
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Technological Fluency ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTThis multi-phased study investigates the learning outcomes of courses taught in the K-14 classroom. Specifically, the methods and practices teachers use to develop and encourage 21st Century Skills including critical thinking skills and technological fluency in all subject areas, STEM and non-STEM related, are of great interest. Currently, these skills are in high demand in fields which develop advanced materials and are the backbone of the National Academiesdeveloped Frameworks for K-12 Science Education. Phase I participants in this study included high school and college educators while Phase II of the study will involve K-14 students. In this study, educators were asked to rate their teaching self-efficacy in two primary areas: critical thinking skills and technological fluency. This included questions related to components in their current curriculum as well as methods of assessment [e.g., rubrics]. The instrument created to measure self-efficacy was based on a modified ‘Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument' (STEBI). All participants were from Connecticut. Results indicate that both STEM and non-STEM related subject areas offer an equally rich array of opportunities to effectively teach critical thinking and technological fluency at a variety of educational levels. The impact of Professional Development on teacher self-efficacy was of particular importance, especially in K-12 education.

Long-term trends accentuate the import of creative and critical thinking skills developed by design thinking and ill-defined questions

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A Peters ◽  
Janice Maatman
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Fiscal Pressure

The economic, financial, and political trends such as stagnating standards of living, fiscal pressure, and an escalating mistrust of government were set in motion during the 1960s and 1970s. Due to the duration of the trends, the magnitude, but not the nature, of the challenges confronting the health care, nonprofit and public sectors has changed. Consequently, with the exception of adding topics relating to strategies for securing voluntary compliance and effectively interacting with constituents who are increasingly angry and opposed to government intervention, the Great Recession and subsequent Age of Austerity do not appreciably affect the Master in Public Administration (MPA) curriculum’s content. However, the intractable nature of the challenges accompanying the trends places a premium on cultivating the students’ critical thinking and creative skills. Meeting this challenge necessitates the adoption of learning strategies that shift to students a greater share of the responsibility for learning. One of the options for achieving the outcome is to provide students with the foundational materials and an ill-defined problem that, in conjunction with design thinking, maximizes the students’ freedom to independently define the problem, identify the requisite information for analysis, and develop solutions. The article provides examples of the learning strategy that has been applied in several courses.

scholarly journals The Comparison on 21st Century Skills of Early Childhood in Four Schools in Yogyakarta

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Erni Munastiwi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Collaboration Skills ◽  
Collecting Techniques ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Creative Thinking Ability

This study aims to determine differences in 21st century abilities, including critical thinking, creative thinking, communication skills, and collaboration skills, in 4 schools in the Yogyakarta region. This research is a comparative survey with a research sample of 60 students. The data collecting techniques used in interviews with questionnaires consist of 4 21st century abilities: critical thinking skills, creative thinking, communication skills, and collaboration skills. The results showed differences in 21st-century abilities between schools AR with RA, AR with TY, RA with TY, RA with RB, and TY with RB. This is proved by the t-test, where the sig.t value <0.05 is obtained in a row on the creative thinking ability of 0.001; 0.049; 0.00; 0.001; 0.024. Ability to think creatively in succession 0.003; 0.009; 0.000; 0.009; 0.005. 0.000 successive communication skills; 0.011; 0.000; 0.000; 0.003. Collaboration ability 0.002 consecutively; 0.001; 0.000; 0.003; 0.000. Then there is no difference between AR and RB schools. The value of sig evidence this. t > 0.05 in a row on critical thinking skills, creative thinking, communication skills, and collaboration skills 0.781; 0.702; 0.540; 0.624. The difference in ability is influenced by the learning method used.

scholarly journals RESEARCH NOTEBOOKS Developing Students' Critical Thinking Skills in KAETSU ARIAKE Junior & Senior High School library

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shoko Sanada ◽  
Hideo Yamada ◽  
Aiko So ◽  
Terumi Kuwata
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
21St Century ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
School Library ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
9Th Grade ◽  
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy ◽  
Library Skills

We, Kaetsu Ariake, regard 21st century skills as one of the most important factors for our students to acquire. Especially, critical thinking (CT) and its skills are indispensable. Thus, we offer special classes for the 7th, 8th, and 9th grade students to become better thinkers. Teachers from a variety of subjects teach the classes, which are held in our school library with the help of its librarian. The librarian teaches the students library skills, supports the teachers, and edits the Research Notebooks. The Research Notebooks are the key to managing the three-year course. We refer to the six-step learning program and Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy in order to develop the Research Notebooks. Using the Notebooks, the students can develop good insights and skills to do research. By making use of the library, getting the help of the librarian, and using the Research Notebooks, we promote 21st century skills throughout our school.

scholarly journals Empowering critical thinking skills by implementing scientific approach-based models among various students’ ethnics

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Didimus Tanah Boleng ◽  
Elsje Theodora Maasawet ◽  
Krishna Purnawan Candra
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
21St Century ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
Significant Interaction ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Guided Inquiry ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Quasi Experimental

In empowering students’ 21st century skills, the implementation of scientific approach-based models (SAbM) is recommended. This quasi-experimental research was conducted in senior high school in which the students were comprised of different ethnics. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of SAbM on empowering students' critical thinking skills (CTS). The SAbM implemented were Problem-Based Learning (PBL), Guided Inquiry (GI), and PBL+GI combination. Furthermore, the students’ ethnics included were Javanese, Bugis, Kutai, Banjar, and Toraja. The purposive sampling was used to determine the classes employed (i.e. 11th classes from two senior high schools in Samarinda). The instrument used to collect CTS data was questions test. The data were analyzed using two-way ANCOVA. The results showed that there was no significant interaction between ethnic and learning models on the students' CTS (p = 0.219), as also shown by the main effect of ethnic types (p = 0.583). In contrast, there was a significant effect of SAbM on students’ CTS (p = 0.0005) Through this study, SAbM need to be implemented continuously as it can optimize the empowerment of students’ 21st Century skills.

scholarly journals Development of Local Wisdom Digital Books to Improve Critical Thinking Skills through Problem Based Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Shofwan Ridho ◽  
Sri Wardani ◽  
Sigit Saptono
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Alternative Source ◽  
Digital Book ◽  
Strongly Agree

The challenge of education entering the 21st century in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 is expected to get graduates who are competent in utilizing ICT but also competent in developing critical thinking skills. This research aims to develop digital book based on local wisdom to improve critical thinking skills. This research includes Research and Development (R&D) research using ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) models. Data analysis techniques used in this study include descriptive data analysis related to the validity and response of users, while to determine the effectiveness of the product used the N-gain test. The results show (1) the developed digital book has valid criteria regarding aspects of the material, presentation, and language (2) students and teachers provide responses to the local wisdom digital book used in learning with response criteria strongly agree (3) assessment results Students' critical thinking skills show improvement with high N-Gain grades. The developed local wisdom digital book is suitable to be used as an alternative source of learning additive material in natural science learning in the face of the 21st century and the industrial revolution 4.0.

scholarly journals IT teachers’ experience of teaching-learning strategies to promote critical thinking

10.28945/2124 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Mentz ◽  
Roxanne Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Pair Programming ◽  
Thinking Strategies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Learning

[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.] Information Technology (IT) high school learners are constantly struggling to cope with the challenges of succeeding in the subject. IT teachers therefore need to be empowered to utilize appropriate teaching-learning strategies to improve IT learners’ success in the subject. By promoting critical thinking skills, IT learners have the opportunity to achieve greater success in the most difficult part of the curriculum, which is programming. IT teachers received a once-of face-to-face professional development where some teachers received professional development in critical thinking strategies and other IT teachers received professional development in critical thinking strategies infused in pair programming. To determine how teachers experience these suggested strategies, teachers participated in initial interviews as well as follow-up interviews after they had implemented the suggested strategies. From the interviews it became evident that teachers felt that their learners benefited from the strategies. Teachers in the pair programming infusing critical thinking strategies focused more on the pair programming implementation. Although teachers are initially willing to change their ways, they are not always willing to implement new teaching-learning strategies.

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