Prepared by: Ronlie RJ A.

Espeleta
E-mail Address: [email protected]
School/University: Cavite State University – Carmona Campus

A. Module 1
Topic: 21st Century Skills (4Cs)

B. Learning Objectives
After completing the module, the students will be able to:
1. enumerate and define the 4 Cs of 21st century;
2. draw connections between concepts of 21st century; and
3. discuss the importance of 4Cs by concept mapping.

C. Content/Text Discussion

21st Century Learning and the 4Cs

• What are the 4Cs?

• Why the 4Cs?

A focus on collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking is
essential to prepare students for increasingly complex life and work environments in the
21st century.
21st Century
Definition How to Build?
Skills
Occurs when two or more people • Work effectively with
work together to accomplish a different groups of
Collaboration
shared, common goal people, including people
from diverse cultures.
 • Be flexible and willing to
compromise with team
members to reach a
common goal.
• Demonstrate
responsibility as a team
member working toward
a shared goal.
Expressing thoughts clearly, crisply • Communicate using
articulating opinions, digital media
communicating coherent and environments to
instructions, motivating others support personal and
through powerful speech. group learning.
• Share information
efficiently and
effectively using
Communication appropriate digital
media and
environments.
• Communicate thoughts
and ideas clearly and
effectively to different
audiences using various
media and formats.
The ability to produce new, diverse, • Use a wide range
and unique ideas. Thinking of idea
creatively means looking at things creation techniques
from a different perspective and not (such as
Creativity
be restricted by rules, customs, or brainstorming)
norms. • Create new
and worthwhile ideas
(both incremental and
radical concepts)

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 • Elaborate, refine,
analyze and evaluate
their own ideas in order
to improve and
maximize creative
efforts
• Act on creative ideas to
make a tangible and
useful contribution
to the field in which
the
innovation will occur
Involves logical thinking and • Use different kinds
reasoning including skills such as of reasoning, such
comparison, classification, as deductive and
sequencing, cause/effect, inductive, to
patterning, webbing, analogies, understand a
deductive and inductive reasoning, situation.
forecasting, planning, • Analyze complex
hypothesizing, and critiquing. systems and
understand how their
interconnected parts
Critical support the systems.
Thinking • Gather relevant
information.
• Ask important questions
that clarify points of
view and help
solve problems.
• Make decisions by
selecting appropriate
criteria and identifying
alternatives to make
reliable choices.

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Teachers’ Guide:

• Teachers can always incorporate Speaking and Listening skills with this type of
content. In able for students to demonstrate the 4Cs of 21st Century, they need to
have good speaking and listening skills for they will be communicating with each
other.
• Teachers can give activities before or during discussion about speaking
and listening and then, by incorporating the aforementioned skills, proceed to the
main content of the lesson.
• Since the modality is online, teachers can show pictures and/or videos of
scenarios showing speaking/listening skills of the 4Cs of 21st Century.

Examples of Pictures/Videos:

Collaboration Communication

Creativity Critical Thinking

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 D. Evaluation

I. Quiz

1. IDENTIFICATION. Identify what 21st century skill is described.

1. This occurs when two or more people work together to accomplish

a shared, common goal.

2. This is expressing thoughts clearly.

3. This involves logical thinking and reasoning

4. This is the ability to produce new, diverse, and unique ideas.

5. This means looking at things from a different perspective and not

be restricted by rules, customs, or norms.

2. MULTIPLE-CHOICE. Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. Students need to develop Critical Thinking skills by learning to:

I. Use different kinds of reasoning, such as deductive and inductive, to

understand a situation.

II. Analyze complex systems and understand how their interconnected parts
support the systems.

III. Ask important questions that clarify points of view and help solve problems.

a. II and III c. I and II

b. I, II, and III d. I and III

2. To build effective Creative Skills, students must learn to:

I. Use a wide range of idea creation techniques (such as brainstorming)

II. Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts)

III. Elaborate, refine, analyze, and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve
and maximize creative efforts

a. I only c. II only

b. II and III d. I, II, and III

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 3. To build good Collaboration Skills, students must learn to:

I. Work effectively with different groups of people, including people from diverse
cultures.

II. Be flexible and willing to compromise with team members to reach a common
goal.

III. Demonstrate responsibility as a team member working toward a shared goal.

a. II only c. III only

b. II and III d. I, II, and III

4. To build effective Communication Skills students must learn to:

I. Communicate using digital media and environments to support personal

and group learning.

II. Share information efficiently and effectively using appropriate digital media and
environments.

III. Communicate thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively to different audiences
using various media and formats.

a. I only c. II only

b. I and III d. I, II, and III

5. Critical thinking involves the following, EXCEPT:

a. analogies c. webbing

b. communicating d. patterning

II. Individual Activity - 21st Century Skills Concept Mapping

After the first part of the lecture-discussion on 21st Century Skills, you will be
asked to make a concept map regarding the different 21st Century Skills. Your concept
map will be graded based on the following criteria:

Content – 45%

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 Organization – 45%
Design – 10%
100%

Sample Concept Map:

21st Century Skills

Importance Methods Take-Away
4Cs of
Meaning (Why (How to (What did you
Education
Teach?) Teach?) learn?)
1.
2.
3.
4.

This is an example of a concept map. You can use this, or you can do your own.
When you do your own concept map, make sure that all criteria in the rows and columns
of the given sample are used.
Give the 4Cs of Education, their meanings, importance (why do we need to teach
them), methods (how to teach them), and your take-away (what did you learn from each
of the C).

III. Group Activity – Poster Making.

After the first part of the lecture-discussion on 21st Century Skills, the class will
be divided into four (4) groups. The groups will make a one-page poster showing the 4
Cs of
21st Century. Then, they need to write a description/explanation stating the meaning of
each element in your poster. The posters will be graded based on the following criteria:

Theme – 40%
Creativity – 40%
Picture Quality – 10%
Description – 10%
100%

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Research Task
Answer the following questions:
1. Aside from collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking, are
there any other 21st century skills that learners must possess?
2. Who is the proponent of the 4 C’s of 21st century skills?

E. Reference
Berryessa Union School District Education Services. (n.d.) 21st Century Learning and the
4Cs. Retrieved from: https://www.berryessa.k12.ca.us/documents/Common%20
Core%20State%20Standards/ BUSD%204Cs%20Presentation.pdf
Pictures:
• https://www.ringcentral.com/us/en/blog/collaboration-in-the-workplace/
• https://resumegenius.com/blog/resume-help/communication-skills
• https://elearningindustry.com/creativity-in-instructional-design
• https://cpet.tc.columbia.edu/news-press/information-overload-combating-
misinformation-with-critical-thinking
Video:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrEEVZa3f98
Further Readings:
• https://www.graniteschools.org/edtech/4cs/
• https://www.edglossary.org/21st-century-skills/

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