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** 21st Century Skills Chapter Four Digital Literacy Skills Chapter four was devoted to the three Digital Literacy Skills. It is no longer enough simply to read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliché, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter, and important news from coverage. Our 21st Century students need to acquire the skills to appropriately access, evaluate, use, manage, and add to the wealth of information and media they now have at their thumbs and fingertips. With today’s and tomorrow’s digital tools, our next generation students will have unprecedented power to amplify their ability to think, learn, communicate, collaborate, and create. Along with all that power comes the need to learn the appropriate skills to handle massive amounts of information, media, and technology. INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS Students should be able to: Access and evaluate information  · Access information efficiently (time) and effectively (sources)  · Evaluate information critically and competently Use and manage information  · Use information accurately and creatively for the issue or problem at hand  · Manage the flow of information from a wide variety of sources  · Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information MEDIA LITERACY SKILLS Students should be able to: Analyze media  · Understand both how and why media messages are constructed, and for what purposes  · Examine how individuals interpret messages differently, how values and points of view are included or excluded and how media can influence beliefs and behaviors  · Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical and legal issues surrounding the access and use of media Create media products  · Understand and utilize the most appropriate media creation tools, characteristics and conventions  · Understand and effectively utilize the most appropriate expressions and interpretations in diverse, multicultural environments INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS (ICT) Students should be able to: Apply technology effectively  · Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate and communicate information  · Use digital technologies (computers, PDSs, media players, GPS, etc), communication/networking tools and social networks appropriately to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, and create information in order to successfully function in a knowledge economy  · Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information technologies The three digital literacy skills - information, media, and ICT literacy – are continually evolving, and they are all essential to managing our ever-expanding tool sets of information, media, and communications technologies. These 21st century literacy’s are also powering the learning of many of the other skills in the P21 framework’s rainbow.