Mindful Assessment: The 6 Essential Fluencies of Innovative Learning (Teaching 21st Century Skills to Modern Learners)

2017 REVERE Awards Finalist

2016 Foreword INDIES Winner

It is time to rethink the relationship between teaching and learning and assess the crucial skills students need to succeed in the 21st century. The authors assert that educators must focus assessment on mindfulness and feedback for improvement, framing assessment around six fluencies students need to cultivate. The book provides scenarios, lessons, activities, and assessment rubrics.

Benefits

• Discover the essential fluencies and skills students need for success in the 21st century.
• Examine different kinds of assessments and their focuses, strengths, and weaknesses.
• Gain assessment rubrics for evaluating students' skills in the fluencies.
• Access sample lessons and projects that support the fluencies.
• Employ the Solution Fluency Activity Planner to help students develop the fluencies they'll need to succeed in the 21st century.

Contents
Preface
Introduction: Lessons from the Dojo
1. Approaches to Assessment
2. Structure of the Fluencies Assessment Framework
3. Solution Fluency Assessment Framework
4. Information Fluency Assessment Framework
5. Creativity Fluency Assessment Framework
6. Media Fluency Assessment Framework
7. Collaboration Fluency Assessment Framework
8. Global Digital Citizen Assessment Framework
Epilogue: Where Will You Go from Here?
Appendix: Glossary of Command Terms

Lee Watanabe-Crockett is an author, speaker, designer, inspirational thinker, and the creative force behind some of the most exciting transformations in education happening worldwide.

Lee is an optimist. He believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together through connection and compassion. He works with governments, education systems, international agencies, and corporations to help people and organizations connect to their highest purpose and realize their wishes for the future.

Lee believes in creating balance in the reality of a digital present and future. As such, living in Japan, he studies Aikido, Buddhism, and the Shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese bamboo flute. Joyful curiosity is the foundation of his approach to creating vital learning environments for groups around the world.

His several best-selling books, including Literacy is NOT Enough, Growing Global Digital Citizens, and Mindful Assessment, have garnered many awards and are used in schools and universities around the world.

To learn more about Lee's work, visit globaldigitalcitizen.org or leewatanabecrockett.com, or follow @leecrockett on Twitter.

Andrew Churches is a teacher, head of faculty, and information and communications technology enthusiast. He teaches at Kristin School in Auckland, New Zealand, a school with a BYOD program that allows students to use personal mobile devices and laptops in the classroom.

Andrew presents keynotes and workshops at conferences around the world on digital citizenship, project-based learning and 21st-century fluencies, digital pedagogies and teaching, and assessment and learning in the 21st century. He is vice president of the Global Digital Citizen Foundation, which develops 21st-century approaches to teaching and learning.

In 2009, Andrew was a finalist in the Microsoft Distinguished Educators Awards. He has been a member of the advisory board for the Australia and New Zealand edition of the Horizon Report, the only secondary/primary school teacher on a board of 32 educational experts. In 2012, he was named a Learning Commons Visionary by the editors of Teacher Librarian: The Journal for School Library Professionals. He is a Class of 2013 Apple Distinguished Educator and was accepted into the National Aspiring Principals Programme for 2016.

An edublogger, wiki author, and innovator, Andrew believes that to prepare students for the future, we must prepare them for change and teach them to question, think, adapt, and modify.

He holds a bachelor's degree in zoology from Massey University and a diploma in teaching at secondary level from Auckland College of Education, New Zealand.