SmartSkills for the 21st Century Lessons and Assessments

Colleagues:

Over the years I have used both Bloom's Taxonomy and the Dimensions of Learning to guide the design of learning, teaching, and assessment tasks -- for F2F and virtual learning activities. 

While working with novice and experienced teachers, I observed that thinking frameworks such as these provide too much information for teachers to process while designing daily lessons and assessments in their planning periods. So, I created a mashup of "SmartSkills" from a variety of thinking frameworks that focuses on three essential levels of 21st century thinking and learning:

These levels help teachers to move quickly from their content and skills to a high quality student product, performance, or exit ticket for a daily lesson. 

I think today's learning expectations can be integrated easily into these levels of 21st century thinking. Moreover, they accommodate any conventional and digital media thereby providing greater flexibility to teachers for addressing student learning preferences.

Learn how SmartSkills works here.

Try our interactive template for SmartSkills in the LearningFRONT tool known as TaskBuilder and access example lessons.

Nick Hobar