RM-21st

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 * =====Problem solving =====
 * =====Synthesizing across content areas =====
 * =====Interpersonal communication =====
 * =====Search strategies =====
 * =====Information credibility =====
 * =====Dealing with information overload =====
 * =====How to write for an online, rather than print, environment =====
 * =====Computerized presentation skills =====
 * =====Workspace ergonomics =====
 * =====Basic debugging =====
 * =====Basic understanding of usability concepts =====
 * =====Reflection =====
 * =====Cross-cultural communication =====

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Prepared by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, their work ([|Learning for the 21st Century)] is designed to articulate a vision for learning in the 21st Century, providing guides for creating a framework for action. Their definition of six key elements for fostering 21st century learning is excerpted below: =====
 * =====**//Information and communications skills //**=====
 * =====Examples: Using communication, information processing, and research tools (such as word processing, e-mail, groupware, presentation software, and the Internet) to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create, and communicate information). These skills include information and media literacy skills. =====
 * =====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">//**Thinking and problem-solving skills**// =====
 * =====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Examples: Using problem-solving tools (such as spreadsheets, decision support, and design tools) to manage complexity, solve problems, and think critically, creatively, and systematically. =====
 * =====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">//**Interpersonal and self-directional skills**// =====
 * =====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Examples: Using personal development and productivity tools (such as e-learning, time managers, and collaboration tools) to enhance productivity and personal development. These skills include accountability and adaptability skills. =====
 * =====//<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">**Use digital technology and communication tools to** **access, manage, integrate and evaluate information; construct new knowledge; and communicate with others effectively** //=====
 * =====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Examples: Using 21st Century tools (such as word processing, e-mail, presentation software, the Internet, spreadsheets, decision support programs, design tools, e-learning, time management programs, and collaboration tools) combined with learning skills in core subjects equals 21st Century Skills (ICT Literacy). =====
 * =====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">//**Learn academic content through real-world examples**// =====
 * =====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Learning must expand beyond the four classroom walls. Global awareness, economic and business literacy, and civic literacy; high quality standardized tests =====

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