Blog #4

Blog #4: 21st Century Skills and Lifelong Learning

The skills required of students today for jobs in the future are that they are literate in all of the various types of media available for communication and collaboration. Students will need to be self-directed learners who use their higher order thinking skills to analyze, solve problems, communicate, collaborate, create, and evaluate. These students are digital learners and have grown up playing video games, typing on computers, playing computer games, talking on cellphones, texting, instant messaging, and social networking through sites such as Facebook and MySpace. The students are ready to use Web2.0 tools to learn, now it's time for teachers, school administrations, school districts, and school board members to realize the need to get up to speed with the new technologies and use those technologies to enhance learning.