Sunday, March 11, 2007

21st Century Skills

Looking at Educational Technology, Digital Literacy, etc., I keep running across "21st Century Skills." Do any of you have some background on this?

Speaking of Digital Literacy... In Will Richardson's book p. 126 it states, "For more than a hundred years we have defined being literate as being able to read and to write." How does Digital Literacy fit in to the definition of being literate? Or, does it?

1 comment:

Robin said...

Yup, I think so. I can't imagine a person being able to be fully successful in our society without being able to navigate digital "texts"--print and non-print. It's part of all of our lives and we and our kids need to know how to navigate it and use it successfully both to understand and create media. I would certainly include it in today's definition of literacy. That's my 2 cents. Can you tell I'm in Media Lit. this semester? :)