Digital Literacy and Workplace Readiness Preparing Your Students with 21 st Century Skills BAM Conference Friday, 9:

1. Digital Literacy and Workplace Readiness Preparing Your Students • with 21stCentury Skills • BAM Conference • Friday, 9:45-10:35, Fuji 3

2. Agenda Presenter: Trish Bobst, National Curriculum Specialist What is Digital Literacy 21st Century Skills Washington’s Work-Based Learning Common Core Standards Ways to integrate into CTE courses Agenda AgendaAgendaAgendaAgendaAgendaAgendaAgenda Agenda Agenda Agenda Agenda

3. What’s going on out there? The Computer Concepts and Microsoft Office courses are merging into a single course. Administrations are asking if schools still need to be teaching a Computer Concepts course at all. The entire computing curriculum is under pressure. “Don’t students know all this before they get here?” “Students are still unprepared to use the technology they need to succeed in school and life.”

4. Digital Literacy What is it?

5. Digital Literacy – Customer Definitions “The ability to use computers, smart phones and other digital tools to successfully complete tasks and communicate” “The ability to use computing technology effectively to enhance one’s life or job” “The ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and analyze information using digital technology” “It’s elusive – When you get a good definition, please share it!”

6. Digital Literacy - Definition Principles of computers, networks, and the Internet The ability to use current hardware and software to perform useful functions A set of higher-order thinking and reasoning skills required for understanding and solving problems

7. Where is Digital Literacy Taught? Digital Literacy

8. What’s Happening Now?

9. Where we need to go…

10. Challenges • Existing curricula are already packed • How do we add more material? • What should be included? • How should Digital Literacy be taught and assessed? • What is the role of critical thinking? • How can it be taught? • How can it be measured?

11. Critical Thinking - Relevance • Collecting and Evaluating • Information • Invention or Discovery • Organizing Information • Arrangement • Communicating Information • Style, Memory and Delivery • National Educational Technology Standards (indicators), 2005 • Canons of Rhetoric (600 BCE)

12. Thinking About Critical Thinking • Information literacy • Problem solving • Troubleshooting • Digital citizenship • Personal and data security • Real-world interactions between people and technology

13. Teaching Critical Thinking

14. Teaching Critical Thinking Making Academic Connections

15. Teaching Critical Thinking

16. www.cengage.com/ct/digital-literacy

17. Digital Literacy Learning Products

18. Digital Literacy White Papers

19. Digital Literacy Blog

20. Digital Literacy - Summary • The three-part Digital Literacy model is emerging as a global consensus regarding what is needed to achieve technology competence • The Intro to Computers course is already moving in this direction (combining Concepts and Applications) • An evolution to the teaching of Digital Literacy will ensure that the Computing Course stays relevant, timely (and funded)

21. 21st Century Skills

22. 21st Century Study Outcomes • Information, Media andTechnology Skills • Information literacy • Media literacy • ICT (Information, Communications • and Technology) literacy • Life and Career Skills • Flexibility and adaptability • Initiative and self-direction • Social and cross-cultural skills • Productivity and accountability • Leadership and responsibility • Core Subjects – 3Rsand 21st Century Themes • Global awareness • Financial, Economic, Businessand Entrepreneurial literacy • Civic literacy • Health literacy • Environmental literacy • Learning and Innovative Skills, • including the 4Cs: • Critical thinking and problem solving • Communication • Collaboration • Creativity and Innovation

23. 21st Century Support Systems • 21stcentury standards • Assessment of 21st century skills • 21st century curriculum and instruction • 21st century professional development • 21st century learning environment • To learn more, visit www.p21.org

25. Digital Literacy Through Leadership

26. Cengage and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills “Fifty years ago, the ticket up the economic ladder was content mastery of four or five subjects. Today, it is the ability to think critically, solve problems, communicate, collaborate, use technology, and be globally competent.” -- Partnership for 21st Century Skills Some of the Member Organizations:

27. Technology Application in 21st Century – Student Outcomes • Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate and communicate information • Use digital technologies (computers, PDAs, media players, GPS,  etc.), communication/networking tools and social networks appropriately to access, manage, integrate, evaluate and create information to successfully function in a knowledge economy • Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information technologies

28. Up to the Challenge • The Role of Career and Technical Education and 21st Century Skills in College and Career Readiness • Highlights the demand for skills in the global economy • Provides ways in which educators can meet this demand by drawing on both CTE and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills’ Framework for 21st Century Learning.

29. What did we uncover? “Skills shortages jeopardize economic recovery, growth and competitiveness, particularly in the STEM fields”. “A growing skills deficit endangers US economic competitiveness and the American way of life”. “The danger exists that Americans may not know enough about science, technology, or mathematics to contribute significantly to, or fully benefit from, the knowledge-based economy that is already taking shape around us” (National Academies, 2007). “Today’s skill shortages are extremely broad and deep, cutting across industry sectors and impacting more than 80 percent of companies surveyed. This human capital performance gap threatens our nation’s ability to compete … [and] is emerging as our nation’s most critical business issue”(National Association of Manufacturers, 2005).

30. How do we conquer this ‘skills imperative’? Meeting the nation’s skills imperative requires a direct, explicit and comprehensive strategy: By teaching students 21st century skills in the context of a career area.

31. What did we really uncover?

32. Prepare your students for college and careers 1. Emphasize opportunities to master 21st century skills. 2. Prioritize strategies to engage students in learning and meet the needs of students with different learning styles. 3. Prepare students for STEM occupations and other high-growth, high-wage careers. 4. Give students opportunities to earn valuable credentials. 5. Foster productive relationships between students and teachers, employers and higher education 6. Support transitions to postsecondary education. 7. Employ best practices for college and career readiness .

33. WA’s 21st Century Skills http://www.k12.wa.us/CareerTechEd/TwentyFirstCenturySkills.aspx

34. WA’s Work-Based Learning http://www.k12.wa.us/CareerTechEd/WorkBasedLearning.aspx

35. Common Core State Standards

36. College and career readiness standards developed in summer 2009 Based on the college and career readiness standards, K-12 learning progressions developed Multiple rounds of feedback from states, teachers, researchers, higher education, and the general public Final Common Core State Standards released on June 2, 2010 • Standards Development Process

37. Aligned with college and work expectations Focused and coherent Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards Internationally benchmarked so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society Based on evidence and research State led – coordinated by NGA Center and CCSSO NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION and COUNCIL OF CHIEF STATE SCHOOL OFFICERS • What are the Common Core State Standards?

38. Currently, every state has its own set of academic standards, meaning public education students in each state are learning to different levels All students must be prepared to compete with not only their American peers in the next state, but with students from around the world • Why is this important?

39. www.corestandards.org For more information and to post a video of support • Want additional information?

40. Our Commitment • Cengage Learning understands how students learn, and how they learn has a decided impact on what they learn. For that reason our print and digital assets facilitate a better path to college and career readiness.

41. Examples of activities to reinforce these 21st Century Skills

42. Examples of activities to reinforce these 21st Century Skills

43. Engagement Tracker E-Book Digital Advantage Learning Resources

45. TERC (Testing and Education Resource Center)

46. http://cengagesites.com/?site=66

47. http://www.cengage.com/focus/

48. What is Digital Literacy 21st Century Skills Washington’s Work-Based Learning Common Core Standards Ways to integrate into CTE courses Summary Trish Bobst, National Curriculum Specialist trish.bobst@cengage.com