Cognitive Skills You Need for the 21st Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780197529003)

In Cognitive Skills You Need for the 21st Century, Stephen Reed discusses a Future of Jobs report that contrasts trending and declining skills required by the workforce in the year 2022. Trending skills include analytical thinking and innovation, active learning strategies, creativity, reasoning, and complex problem solving. Part One on Acquiring Knowledge contains chapters on cognitive processes that are critical for learning. Part Two on Organizing Knowledge explains how matrices, networks, and hierarchies offer contrasting methods for visualizing organization. Part Three on Reasoning discusses visuospatial reasoning, reasoning from imperfect knowledge, and reasoning strategies. Part Four on Problem Solving focuses on the knowledge and strategies required to solve different types of problems, including those that involve design and dynamic changes. Part Five on Artificial Intelligence contains chapters on the Data Sciences, Explanatory Models, the Information Sciences, and General AI. Part Six on Education consists of three chapters on educating 21st century skills at all levels of instruction. Research in Cognitive Psychology, Education, and AI provides the foundation for acquiring these skills.

Author: Stephen K. Reed
ISBN-10: 0197529003
ISBN-13: 9780197529003
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2020
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2021