Overview of Skills
Working on the challenges you are not only connecting and learning globally with your peers, you are also expanding knowledge and meanwhile intensively learning and practicing various skills.
Developing your capacity to work together and plan your activities, involves specific critical thinking tools.
Organizing your work and activities will further enrich curricular goals and build on knowledge.
This is an overview of skills essential to carry out your tasks thoughtfully.
Click here to download and print a pdf version; you can use it to keep track of what skills have been addressed and what it has brought to you.
SKILLS & SUBJECTS
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Collaboration
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Contributing to group work |
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Know and respect agreements |
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Take initiative |
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Give feedback
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Learn from feedback |
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Stand up for yourself |
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Helping others achieve their goals |
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Contribution to the work climate |
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Communication
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Actively listen to others |
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Ask questions to support others |
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How to use writing to share ideas with others |
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How to read, evaluate and edit the work of others
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Critical Thinking (to problems & issues)
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Think of a good a question for the assignment |
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Think of a good a question for the interview |
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How to start and carry out a research in respond to questions |
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The ability to collect, interpret and present information to others |
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Reflection on own work/actions
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Effectiveness of own actions |
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Insight in consequences of own actions |
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Learning from the approach of others |
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Reflecting on the quality of work |
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Learning Strategies
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Set realistic goals |
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Divide goals into sub-steps |
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Create a schedule/plan |
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Perform planning; set priorities |
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Organizing tasks for assignment |
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Self guided learning & ownership
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Define learning goals |
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Ask for help |
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Make choices in: priorities |
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Make choices in: how to learn |
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Make choices in: where to learn |
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Make choices in: when to learn |
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Make choices in: with whom to learn |
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Adjusting choices |
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Global collaboration & Cultural Perspectives
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Show empathy
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Conflict resolution |
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Analyze social problems |
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Clarify the problem |
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Explore issues of national and global significance |
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Understand how regions are similar and different |
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Learn to work with peers in other places
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ICT skills:
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Understand how technologies are used in virtual collaboration
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Gain experience in working with computers |
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Be aware of 'Netiquette' in digital communication |
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