paper on skills for 21st century learners

2. Exponential expansion of information

3. Ever-changing tools

4. Increasing digitization of text

5. Heightened demands for critical thinking and communication

6. Collaborative problem-solving

7. Rapid-paced

8. Global society

9. Access high quality information

10. Diverse perspectives

11. Make sense of this information

12. Make own conclusions or create new knowledge

13. Share their knowledge with others

14. Multiple literacies – digital, visual, textual, and technological

15. High expectations

16. Focus on the learner

17. Strong school library media program

18. Up-to-date resources

19. Dynamic instruction

21. Students are more likely to be successful in developing the skills and dispositions of learning when they are given opportunities to construct their own understanding and develop skills through guided practice

22. Integrating all learning modalities (reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and representing) is also helpful for students with different learning needs

24. Determine the intended meaning and to understand it in context

25. Inquiry based learning is explicitly recognized as one of the common beliefs

26. The learners themselves are engaged in asking questions and finding answers, not simply accumulating facts

27. Any time they are questioning, finding answers, discovering new ideas, and constructing their own meaning they are drawing upon their skills of inquiry

28. Skills are best taught through an approach to which the teacher guides the learners to construct their own understandings and to apply these understandings to any learning experience

29. The acquisition of learning skills is complex and developmental

31. Learning requires a capacity to learn that reflects a range of dispositions: to be curious, resilient, flexible, imaginative, critical, reflective, and self-evaluative

32. Dispositions are shared

34. Actively pursues information and ideas both in print and digitally, drawing conclusions and developing new applications

35. Learners experience pressure to be independent in their information searching because they often are using information tools when available

36. Learners must follow ethical and legal guidelines, respect the principles of intellectual freedom and pursue multiple perspectives and a balance of viewpoints before making decisions or drawing conclusions

37. Practice safe behaviors in the use of social tools

38. Seek opportunities for pursuing personal and aesthetic growth

39. Connect their learning to real-world issues and ideas

40. Contribute to the exchange of ideas in a learning community

41. Respect the ideas and experiences of others

42. Use information and knowledge in service of democratic values

44. Reflection must become intrinsic to learning so that learning is not defined as an accumulation of information, but rather as the thoughtful processing of information to produce, apply, and create knowledge

45. Looking backwards, looking at the present, and looking at the future

46. Students develop their own voices and become empowered to be independent and socially responsibly learners

47. Models of exemplary performance enable students to internalize a solid understanding of the expectations and to compare their performance with the model

48. Student self-assessment may be most effective when students learn to question themselves throughout the learning process

49. Common Beliefs

50. Reading is a window to the world

51. Inquiry provides a framework for learning

52. Ethical behavior in the use of information must be taught

53. Technology skills are crucial for future employment needs

54. Equitable access is a key component for education

55. The definition of information literacy has become more complex as resources and technologies have changes

56. The continuing expansion of information demands that all individuals acquire the thinking skills that will enable them to learn on their own

57. Learning has a social context

58. School libraries are essential to the development of learning skills