Bold Idea Learning Outcomes for 21st Century Skill Development

Critical thinking & Problem solving

• Students show confidence in dealing with complexity and ambiguity
• Students demonstrate persistence in working with difficult problems
• Students can clearly articulate problems they encounter
• Students can seek outside sources of information when they don't know the answer to a problem
• Students can independently choose appropriate problem-solving strategies

Initiative & Self-Direction

• Students can direct their own learning and are motivated to continue learning
• Students are able to challenge themselves
• Students are able to set goals
• Students are able to use tools and processes to plan and prioritize tasks required to achieve a goal
• Students seek help when needed instead of abandoning a task

Discovery & Inquiry

• Students can formulate their own questions
• Students can identify high quality questions
• Students can gather and evaluate information from different sources
• Students can decide which information is relevant and if they have enough

Creative thinking & innovation

• Students can generate multiple original ideas
• Students can evaluate the quality of ideas and select the best to shape into a product
• Students use ingenuity and imagination, going outside conventional boundaries, when shaping ideas into a product
• Students can take different perspectives to elaborate and improve on ideas