For Design and Education, we were asked to identify what we felt were important skills that should be encouraged and reinforced for students to succeed in the 21st Century. I put together a non-exclusive list of skills I feel need to be addressed by all areas of education (from children to adults) at the local, national, and international levels if we are all to succeed in the 21st Century, ensuring a prosperous and humane world for generations to come. These skills are collaboration, participation, synthesis, and reinvention.
Each of these skills go hand-in-hand, so I did my best not to segregate them into unique, cult-silos of personality but instead will illustrate how they are all intertwined.
Here is a copy of my final paper, and here are the slides of the presentation I gave in class.