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Twenty First Century Skills

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In the Jewish calender, we are in the fifty eighth century. But we can still learn from the Partnership for Twentieth Century Skills, which has important resources on educating for competence in the changing world in which we live. Among the skills required are Information Literacy (“Students are able to access and evaluate information effectively and use and manage that information purposefully for the issue or problem at hand”), Media Literacy (“Understanding how, why, and for what purposes, media messages are constructed, and how individuals interpret messages differently”) and Information, Communications, and Technology Literacy (“Students use digital technologies to manage, integrate, evaluate and create information, and to apply technology effectively, using it as a tool to research, organize, evaluate and communicate”). The organization’s website has resources for parents, schools and communities to define and implement these skills: