Are you 21st Century Literate? Why should you be?

Watch Did You Know? (Video through the Teachertube website)

Assess yourself.

What skills will a person need to be successful in the 21st Century?

 

Are you prepared to live & work in the 21st Century? Which of these skills do you have?

 

How are you using them?

 

 

Who is responsible for seeing to it that you are prepared to work and live as an adult?

 

 

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2006 - The report showed adults with less than a high school diploma earned about $19,915 a year. High school graduates earned $29,448. Adults with a bachelor’s degree earned an average of $54,689 in 2005. Those with a master’s, professional or doctoral degree earned an average of $79,946. Earnings Gap Highlighted by Census Bureau Data on Educational Attainment, U.S. Census Bureau. 2007.

Consider this Average-Wage Earners Fall Behind

"Geerling is at the leading edge of changes that herald a new era for millions of people earning around the national average, $17 an hour.

This new era requires that workers shoulder more responsibility and risk on the way to financial security, economists say. It also demands that they be nimble in an increasingly fluid job market. Those who don't obtain some combination of specialized skills, higher education and professional status that can be constantly adapted will be in danger of sliding down the economic ladder to low-paying service jobs, usually without benefits.

Meanwhile, those who secure the middle-class jobs of the 21st century will have to make $17 an hour stretch further than ever as they pay more for health care or risk doing without insurance and assume much or all of the burden for their retirement." by Jonathan Krim and Griff Witte, Washington Post
Friday, December 31, 2004; Page A0

Decide - Where will you be? Why?

Learn more:

Accomplish Learning 2.0 - This online learning journey will ask you to complete 23 “Things” or Web 2.0 tools.
Each Thing will show you one more web tool. There are many places for you to explore, experiment with,
and think about creative ways to use 2.0 tools.

Examine Online Collaboration and Social Networking - Web 2.0

Podcasting as a tool

Dig Deeper and act

the personal learning environments blog

Web 2.0 - how to blog & podcast video at TeacherTube

Food for thought - Did You Know 2.0? Are you 21st Century Literate?

Elgg, open-source social networking software developed at the University of Brighton,
has been designed specifically with academic uses in mind. Community 2.0 TechLearning article about Elgg

How to work in a group | Information Literacy

Current TV | NSBA Report on Social Networking PDF | TeacherTube

The “MySpace Impact Awards” - people who are using MySpace to make a positive impact on the world.

12/2007 Cynthia J. O'Hora. Individuals and educators may freely use this activity.

Save a tree use a digital answer format - Highlight the text. Copy it. Paste it in a word processing document. Save the document in your folder. Answer on the wp document in an easily read, contrasting color or font. (No yellow, no Symbols, , font) Or perhaps you have the resources to record verbal answers. If you do, be sure to first read / record the question. Then record the answer immediately after it. Make Your Own Answer Sheet Form using Word Processing