Microsoft, Apple, Dell, AOL Time Warner, Oracle, Ford, Hewlett Packard, Lenova, Verizon, Intel, Lego, and other major US companies, along with the U.S. Department of Education and the National Education Association have teamed up in the Partnership for 21st Century Skills to advance a program of teaching critical thinking (and other 21st century skills) in the schools.
The hottest topic in education today is these “21st century skills”, which includes critical and creative thinking, called higher-order thinking (HOT) skills. And due to the recent commitment of these major US corporations to getting HOT programs in schools, we can conclude that the HOT skills Age has arrived. And it’s happening all around the world, as other posts here will show.
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has determined that for survival and economic success in this complex 21st century we must start teaching critical and creative thinking along with the standard core subjects. So the central, already agreed upon, definition and purpose of this HOT Age is that survival and economic success in this complex, knowledge based, high tech, 21st century depends on advancing our ability in critical and creative thinking, or what’s generally called HOT skills.
Due to this new commitment by these major corporations to promote HOT skills in schools, we can say without doubt that the HOT Skills Age has arrived. And as this blog will show it’s happening all around the world as countries realize that in this high tech, knowledge based global economy critical and creative thinking (HOT skills) are the critical skills for survival and economic success.
HOT Skills Age – an age of global awareness and promotion of critical and creative thinking, or higher-order thinking (HOT skills), as the critical factor for survival and economic success in the complex 21st century, that began circa 2002.
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