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Integrating 21st century skills into K12
education empowers students to learn and achieve
at the level necessary to succeed in this
century. Education will become both more
invigorating and relevant when it reflects the
realities and challenges of contemporary life.
John Wilson, Executive Director National
Education Association
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The current and future health of Americas 21st
Century Economy depends directly on how broadly
and deeply Americans reach a new level of
literacy ? 21st Century Literacy ? that
includes strong academic skills, thinking,
reasoning, teamwork skills, and proficiency in
using technology.
National Alliance of BusinessBuilding Americas
21st Century Workforce, 2000
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As we move forward into the 21st century, it is
up to us to identify the essential elements of
current multi-literacies and promote them, to
address the special characteristics of each of
today's media and technology, and to create the
personal and institutional flexibility to change
and learn as the world does.
SBC Knowledge Ventures
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The new education must teach the individual how
to classify and reclassify information, how to
evaluate its veracity, how to change categories
when necessary, how to move from the concrete to
the abstract and back, how to look at problems
from a new direction ? how to teach himself.
Tomorrows illiterate will not be the man who
cant read he will be the man who has not
learned how to learn.
Herbert Gerjuoy Psychologist
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We are living in a new economy-powered by
technology, fueled by information, and driven by
knowledge. The influence of technology will go
beyond new equipment and faster communications,
as work and skills will be redefined and
reorganized.
U.S. Department of Labor, 1999, Futurework
Trends and Challenges for Work in the 21st Century
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I have advocated for 30 years that, in order to
preserve our democracy and protect ourselves
against demagogues, we should have courses in
schools on how to watch TV, how to read
newspapers, how to analyze a speech how to
understand the limitations of each medium and
make a judgment as to the accuracy or the motives
involved.
Walter Cronkite
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People everywhere need to learn how to express
their ideas using pictures and graphics instead
of text. Thats because words undergo a strange
transformation when they travel from the page or
computer to the large screen they become
incredibly boring.
Tad Simons, Editor in Chief, Presentations
magazine
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In the 21st Century, the century our children
will live in ? the century they will, in fact,
shape ? media literacy will not be a luxury it
will be a necessity.
Linda Ellerbee, journalist, television producer
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be
those who cannot read and write, but those who
cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin TofflerRethinking the Future
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We need to prepare our children for a future that
we cant even describe.
David Warlick Technology Consultant Author
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• Whatever made you successful in the past, will
  not in the future.

Lew Platt Former CEO, HP
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We need to prepare students for their future, not
our past.
Anonymous
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We need to prepare students for their future, not
their present.
Anonymous