Through anecdotes of student projects, an educator argues that the pillars of modern learning—critical thinking, creativity, ...

Since the publication of his highly impactful book, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Friedman has been teaching his readers and listeners to think differently ...

Few of us could disagree that today’s students must be taught the necessary skills to function in an increasingly complex, conceptual, and globalized 21st-century society and economy. Students have to ...

The term “21st-century skills” is generally used to refer to certain core competencies such as collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving that advocates believe schools ...

A new report from the Brookings Institution finds technology will play an integral part of assessing the ability of students to grasp 21st century skills. As schools invest more time teaching students ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of learning, work and human development. Almost six in ten of the nearly 8 billion of us on Earth are ...

The dominant approach to compulsory education in much of the world is still the “transmission” model, through which teachers transmit factual knowledge to students through lectures and textbooks. In ...

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. Organizations face a growing skills gap — ...

The world is changing in remarkable ways, and the pace of this change is only accelerating. Thanks to unprecedented advances in technology, society continues to evolve at an exponential rate. The ...

Life in the 21st century requires people to be prepared to fill a variety of roles—as workers, parents, citizens, and consumers—in which they will need to apply their knowledge and skills effectively ...