In the Industrial Age, students learned Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic.

Those composition and ciphering skills were considered educational basics necessary for every citizen.

Now, however, our students need to master more complex skills for coping with the ever-increasing flow of information in all kinds of new formats.

I believe that we need to emphasize the following new (yet not really) complex, higher-order thinking skills:

• Reasoning
• Reconnoitering
• Responsibility

in order for our kids to be effective and self-reliant information consumers and producers.

Recommended resources:

Berger, Pam. Learning in the Web 2.0 World. http://infosearcher.typepad.com/infosearcher/2007/04/learning_in_the.html

Churches, Andrew. Bloom’s Taxonomy Blooms Digitally. Techlearning. April 1, 2008. http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.php?articleID=196605124

Cybersmart! 21st Century Skills for Education. http://cybersmart.org/home/

Gardner, Howard. Five Minds for the Future. Harvard Business School Press, 2007

Johnson, Doug. Beating the No U-Turn Syndrome: a New Approach to Teaching and Enforcing Copyright Compliance. Second Life presentation, April 14, 2008. http://dougjohnson.wikispaces.com/NUTS

Library of Congress. “Digital Natives” Lecture Series. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2008/08-057.html

MacArthur Foundation. Digital Media and Learning Series. MIT Press, 2007. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/browse/browse.asp?btype=6&serid=170

McKenzie, Jamie. Embracing Complexity. The Question Mark. February 2008. http://questioning.org/feb08/wp.html

Prensky, Marc. Turning on the lights. Educational Leadership, March 2008. http://tinyurl.com/2ysmpy

Richardson, Will. New Internet Literacies for Educators -- BLC '07 http://blcnewliteracies.wikispaces.com/

Spotlight: blogging the field of digital media and literacy. http://spotlight.macfound.org/

2''1st Century Information Fluency Project''. http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkit/rkit_1.8

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