Check out this short video on technology in the classroom which explains the value of new media literacies and features Henry Jenkins Professor of Communications, Journalism, and Cinematic Art at the University of Southern California:
For more on 21st century skills, the recent work of Tony Wagner at Harvard may prove as a fantastic dovetail to the new media skills outlined by the NML group above.
I say all of the above with two significant caveats: the work relies on self reporting, which has notorious minor holes and too rigid an application of this rubric may confuse necessary skills with sufficient skills for a given student career choice.
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compassioninpolitics // December 8, 2009 at 3:42 am |
This is tangentially related–Howard Rheingold discusses the need for digital literacy and in the context of an lightly flavored marxian critique of internet commerce:
http://www.socialhallucinations.com/2009/12/the-importance-of-digital-literacy.html