Knowing How, Being Able, Becoming Creative: Developing 21st-Century Skills

The 21st-century “c-suite” of skills (i.e., collaboration, creativity, communication, and critical thinking), use facts and information to progress, not as a final goal, but as a medium for the development of ideas. Declarative knowledge is widely viewed as specific to a discipline and narrowed in breadth. In contrast, skills and abilities are transdisciplinary, cross disciplines and which are expansive as they allow the distribution of ideas and understanding to other fields. This writing will address experiences and efforts in the field of creativity development, modeling processes applicable to other skills.