Collaborative and digital approaches to content for the development of 21st century skills

Abstract

This study examines how collaboration can help students and teachers acquire the essential skills needed to thrive in the 21st-century's evolving socio-economic landscape. As society becomes increasingly digitized, our education systems must equip individuals with the adaptability required to navigate and integrate into this new environment. The complexity of national, European or global competences, towards which we tend to adopt in educational systems, is a result of the multitude of the available definitions and classifications. This lack of a unified framework makes it difficult to accurately measure their importance and assess how well they prepare individuals to adapt to societal changes. The study highlights the role of collaboration, which considered an important skill in the current century, especially in a digitized world marked by the rise of artificial intelligence. While education has traditionally prioritized individual performance in a competitive environment, fostering a collaborative world requires a shift in mindset. If a collaborative world is desired, it must also be developed among teachers, who have been trained in competitive systems, and co-teaching activities, which were developed in applied terms. By developing these skills, teachers can serve as powerful role models, passing on the value of collaboration to their students. The study describes the necessary steps in carrying out collaborative activities between teachers, which could generate the right collaboration in the educational system. The results obtained from collaboration highlight seven steps, which, when applied, can help increase these collaboration skills, later transferred to the pupils or students' classes