This document discusses the skills, literacies, and fluencies needed for the 21st century, including information literacy, media literacy, global literacy, network literacy, and digital citizenship. It also examines new forms of learning like social production, social networks, media grids, and non-linear learning. Finally, it proposes six new roles for learners as collaborators, connected to a global perspective, cross-subject, authentic contributors and researchers, and students who become teachers.

1. Buzz So What? New Forms

2. 21st Century Skills, Literacies
& Fluency
Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
Educational Consultant
GloballyConnectedLearning.com
Langwitches.org/blog

3. Buzz

5. What does it mean
to be educated?

6. The
illiterate
of the
21st Century
will not be the ones
who cannot read and
write, but those who
cannot learn, unlearn and
relearn. Alvin Toffler

8. Information Literacy

9. Media Literacy
Media Literacy

10. Global Literacy
Global Literacy

11. Network Literacy
Network Literacy

12. Digital Citizen
Digital Citizenship

13. Fluency

14. Speaking French Sideways
Do I want to
drink a cup of
coffee with you?
Do you want to
drink a cup of
coffee with you?
Speaking Up and Down vs. Sideways

15. It feels
intuitive
unconscious
and smooth.
I know how to
respond to
something
unexpected.
I can relate,
communicate and
connect with others.
I don’t translate,
nor wonder what
comes first? The
verb or the noun?
I am
comfortable
&
not terrified.
I know that a
language is the
sum of words,
common history
and traditions.

16. “People who speak a common language are connected in more
ways than understanding the words that make it up.

17. • Communicate
• Collaborate
• Connect
• Create
• Critical Thinking
Skills
• Basic (reading & writing)
• Information
• Media
• Global
• Network
• Digital Citizen
Literacies • Media
• Information
• Digital Citizen
• Collaboration
• Solution
• Creativity
Fluencies

18. So What?

19. Looking for…
Clay
Shirky

20. Change is
not
necessary.
Survival
is
optional.
W. Edwards Deming

21. Social
Production
Social Networks
Media Grids
Non-Linear Learning
Five Socio-
Technology
Trends
Adapted from Stephen
Wilmarth in Curriculum21
(ASCD 2010) by Heidi
Hayes Jacobs

22. • Learning to Do
• Knowledge Creation
Social
Production
• Learning to Be
• Defining our identities
• How we connect with each other determines how
learning occurs (Relationships, not technologies)
Social
Networks
• Learning to Know
• Organizing, interpretation, connections &
distribution of information
Semantic Web
• Learning to be and do
• Gaming embeds Gardner’s five minds of the future
• Content not confined to linear structures
Media Grids
• Disciplines are interconnected
Non-Linear
Learning
Five
Socio-Technology
Trends
Adapted from Stephen Wilmarth’s chapter in Curriculum21 (ASCD, 2010) by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

24. Six New Roles to Empower
Learners

25. New Forms

26. What is a
Classroom?

27. Collaborators

28. Connected to
Global Perspective

29. Cross-Subject &
Grade Level

30. “When we Skyped with Silvia, what happens years ago, makes
more sense. She told us way more than I’d read in a textbook.
She made me put myself in Germany during the night of broken
glass.
“Skyping helps us learn.
When our class Skyped with
Silvia Rosenthal, she told us
more information about the
holocaust and WWII than a
textbook would have told
us. This makes it exciting
for us because we can see
her expressions and it
makes it more real. We can
feel her emotion.
Authentic

31. Students become
Teachers

32. Contributors

33. Researchers

34. It’s not about the Tools…It’s about the Skills

35. Buzz So What? New Forms

36. Resources
• Curriculum 21 by Heidi Hayes Jacobs
• Curriculum21.ning.com
• Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky
• Langwitches.org/blog

37. Credits
• Buzz image by Clix-
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1019125
• Facebook by EscapedtoWisconsin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/69805768
@N00/3292899689/

38. 21st Century Skills, Literacies
& Fluency
Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
Educational Consultant
GloballyConnectedLearning.com
Langwitches.org/blog