21st century skills for the workforce

Centre for the Study of New Media: Thinking about Literacy, Learning and New Technologies

http://csnlsheffield.ning.com/video/the-new-media-literacies

This video talks about the social skills and cultural competencies students need to develop to fully engage with today's participatory culture - to become creative artists and citizens who can connect with other citizens, and deal with a new culture, the information explosion and a new pace of life.

These skills include:

1.Judgement
2.Negotiation
3.Appropriation
4.Play
5.Transmedia navigation
6.Simulation
7.Distributive cognition
8.Collective intelligence
9. Multi-tasking

People are no longer just passive consumers of media, who think critically what they are reading or watching. These days, people are both consumders and producers of media. New knowledge is created all the time by people.