Twenty First Century Skills

Abstract

This paper presents a summary of a book published by the author in Dar Amjad, Amman, Jordan in 2019 titled “Twenty First Century Skills”. The book contains 9 chapters, the first one talks about importance of education and the basic classification of twenty first century skills. The second chapter indicates the habits of mind and the way we nurture them in our children s’ way of thinking. The rest chapters talked about basics of learning which are the 4CS’ (communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity) then the technological literacy, leadership, global and local citizenship, and finally developing the twenty first century teacher. The following pages represent chapter one of the mentioned book.