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Information and Communication Technologies Literacy (ICT Literacy)
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ICT Literacy which
is fostered in a fast growing international movement is defined as The
Essential Digital Literacy Skills for the 21st Century Global Citizen.
Find out more on the ICT Literacy Web site which represents a global
partnership among leading business, education, and public policy
stakeholders to promote universal ICT Digital Literacy.
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ICT Literacy Summit, Washington DC, January, 2003
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Participants at the 2003 Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) Literacy Summit began to outline a course of action for
building a "new basic literacy" for the 21st century aimed at addressing
the growing need for highly skilled, trained and educated individuals.
Leaders at the 2003 ICT Literacy Summit discussed the importance of a
high-quality education with basic skills (reading, writing, math and
problem solving), but stressed the need for building these skills with
21st century tools. They acknowledged that students without access to a
technology enriched education are left out -- or at a bare minimum, left
behind -- and merely providing access to the hardware and the
connections is not enough.
http://www.ictliteracy.info/Summits.htm
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Partnership for 21st Century Skills |
Supported by the U. S. Department of Education and
promoting the goals of No Child Left Behind, the Partnership for 21st
Century Skills is a unique public-private organization formed to define
and incorporate into learning the skills that are necessary for every
student's success in the 21st Century. The Partnership for 21st Century
Skills brings together educators, administrators, parents, businesses,
and community leaders to determine how to define and assess these
skills, as well as to make recommendations and provide tools for their
implementation. Their first publication is
Learning for the 21st Century.
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/
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NCREL North Central Regional Education Laboratory |
Believing strongly that school must do more to keep
pace with rapid technology, research, and societal changes, NCREL
identifies three significant things that need to occur.
- The public
must acknowledge 21st century skills as essential to the education of
today's learner.
- Schools must embrace new designs for learning based
on emerging research about how people learn, effective uses of
technology, and 21st century skills in the context of rigorous academic
content.
- Policymakers must base school accountability on assessments
that measure both academic achievement and 21st century skills.
This
publication represents an important first step toward Digital Age
readiness. Readers are invited to use the
enGauge 21st Century Skills as a platform for the
shifts in school policy and practices necessary to give students the
education they require in a knowledge-based, global society.
http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/skills.htm
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Educational Testing Service ETS
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In January 2001, Educational Testing Service (ETS)
convened an international panel to study the growing importance of
existing and emerging Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
and their relationship to literacy. The focus of the panel's
deliberations was to examine the need for measures of ICT literacy, and
develop a workable framework for assessing and studying ICT literacy.
Their final publication is
Digital Transformation; A Framework for ICT
Literacy
http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/Information_and_Communication_Technology_Literacy/ictreport.pdf |
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Business-Higher Education Forum
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In this report released in June 2003,
Building a Nation
of Learners: the Need for Changes in Teaching and Learning to Meet
Global Challenges BHEF members call for a fundamental, systemic change in learning and
teaching throughout higher education. BHEF concludes that America must
create “A Nation of Learners,” one where students learn basic life
skills and obtain training tailored both to their individual needs and
workplace demands.
http://www.acenet.edu/programs/bhef/ |
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Educators’ Spotlight Digest |
The Educators’ Spotlight Digest is a
free magazine for teachers of multiple literacies. It is published three
times a year (fall, winter, spring/summer) by
S.O.S. for Information Literacy, a project of Syracuse University's
Center for Digital Literacy in collaboration with the
American Association of School Librarians and the
Association of College and Research Libraries. ESD's mission is to
provide a place where teacher-librarians around the world can share
their great teaching ideas and motivational strategies for turning kids
on to research. You may link to the freely accessible
S.O.S. database of information literacy lesson plans, videos, and
related materials.
http://www.sosspotlight.org/site/view/162 |
