I just finished watching an interesting presentation on 21st Century Literacies by Howard Rheingold which he presented presented at the Reboot Britian conference in July, 2009. You can view his talk at BlipTV. (Approximate length: 40 minutes)
According to Rheingold, new literacies for students in the 21st century include: Attention, Participation, Cooperation, Collaboration, Critical Consumption (crap detection), Network Awareness.
"Schools are places where we park our children while we go to work and where they learn to be good 19th and 20th century workers. Unfortunately, this is the 21st century...a lot of learning takes place outside of school and when the teacher is not looking." (Rheingold)
"I am not sure how to get there, how to evaluate efforts or measure impacts...whether schooling as we know it is even the place to start building the necessary institution." (Rheingold)
In his talk, he refers to a number of his other articles that have been published, such as the one titled Crap Detection 101.
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