The document discusses 21st century fluencies such as information literacy and technology fluency. It uses the case study of Simmons College to show how they [1] formed committees to define these concepts, [2] conducted assessments to establish needs, and [3] implemented initiatives like workshops and courses to help students develop these skills. Big challenges remain around issues like assessing these soft skills and evaluating online information sources. Experts recommend including skills like critical thinking, collaboration, multimedia literacy, and participation in digital networks in any framework developed by the committee.

1. 21st Century Fluencies
What it
Takes to
Live, Learn,
and Lead in
the Digital
Realm
Gail Matthews-
DeNatale
Northeastern
University

2. Agenda
 Case Study: Simmons College
 Recent National Developments
 Implications for Framingham State

3. What do we mean by
“information literacy” and
“technology fluency”?
That’s where Simmons began in 2005

4. Case Study
2006 2008
Case Making Implementing
• FIT Task Force • SATV
• Model • Fluency • Incoming
• First Assessment Assessment
• Rubric • Results Established
z as Priority • iComp Resource
Presented
to Faculty • iComp Workshops
2004-5 2007 • FIT Course
Forming Prioritizing
Simmons College, Boston

5. 2004-5 Forming
Technology Media Literacy
• Information Storage
• Semiotics / Linguistics
and Retrieval
• Art / Media Studies
• Systems, Abstraction,
• Communications
and Modeling
• Algorithmic
thinking • Philosophy/Ethics
• Security/ • Cultural Studies
Privacy • Anthropology
•Education
•Sociology
Information Literacy
• Information Science
• Information Architecture
• Intellectual Property
• Online Research

6. 2004-5 Rubric
 Intellectual Capabilities
 Personal
 Interpersonal
 Professional
 Societal
 Concepts
 Skills

7. 2006 Case Making
You are doing background research for a science project.
In addition to perusing library sources, you decide to go online to see what's available.
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Selected Fake Site (incorrect) Selected NSF (correct) Selected NSF for Appropriate Not Sure
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8. 2006 Case Making
Only 24% Selected the
Appropriate Site for the
Correct Reasons

9. 2007 Prioritizing
Discipline-
specific
technologies Student Innovation and
Learning
fluency emerging technologies
Faculty
environments
Shared Learning
fluency
Roles &
rewards learning
Online
management system
Academic and distance education
Technology
Vision

10. 2007 Prioritizing
Student
Faculty fluency
Shared fluency
Roles &
rewards
Academic
Technology
Vision

11. 2008 Implementing
Is this your first year as an
undergraduate student?
Then your iComps are right
around the corner in March.
What can you do to prepare? Learn at your
own pace in Simmons eLearning (IT 001
iComps) or sign up for workshops to help
you prepare for the exam.

12. Biggest Challenge: Assessment
When we cannot measure what is
important, we make important what we
can measure.

13. Simmons Was 2005-2008
This is Now

14. You are part of a committee
charged with developing a FIT
framework for your institution
What should be included?

15. What the Pundits Say
“These days, if you don’t
have ADD you’re not
paying attention …
‘attention’ is the new
limited resource.”
But “Change is not a
threat — it’s a thing of
wonder.”
Jason Silva

16. Many Challenges Persist
Source Credibility
Animal Planet
“Documentary”
Aquatic Ape
Theory

17. Many Challenges Persist
Source Credibility
Animal Planet
“Documentary”
Aquatic Ape
Theory

18. Many Challenges Persist
One in ten people
believe the world will
come to an end on
12/21/12 (Reuters).
“There are literally
thousands of websites
and YouTube videos
that say the world will
end, and only two or
three say it's a hoax.”

19. Many Challenges Persist
Some of them are very clever
about it. They take my
videos that begin with the
NASA logo, chop that off, and
put it at the beginning of
their video with the headline
"NASA confirms the end of
the world."
- David Morrison

20. The Conundrum
In order to be visually literate, we
need to be media literate.
In a cyberculture world that
couples globally-connected social
networking with transmedia,
Source: Visual Literacy, Cyberculture & Education
http://visuallit.wordpress.com
perhaps we need to reconsider
the idea of literacy itself.

21. One Big Thinker
Play
Performance
Simulation
Visualization
Appropriation
Transmedia Navigation
Distributed Cognition
Collective Intelligence
Judgment
Multitasking
Networking
Negotiation
Henry Jenkins

22. Another Big Thinker
Attention
Participation
Collaboration
Network awareness
Critical consumption
(a.k.a. crap detection)
Howard Rheingold

23. Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21)
P21’s Four Cs
• Critical thinking & problem solving
• Creativity & innovation
• Communication
• Collaboration

24. Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21)
Information Literacy
Technology
Fluency
Are Key

25. You are part of a committee
charged with developing a FIT
initiative for your institution
How would you proceed?
What should be included?