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American Association of School Librarians AASL 21st Century Learners Standards Common Core State Standards Initiative
 * National Standards **

Iowa Dept. of Education Core Curriculum: 21st century Skills North Carolina West Virginia's 21st Century Instruction/Benchmarks/Classroom Assessment
 * State Standards**

School Boards

Noodletools: 21st Century LiteraciesIn //Intelligence Reframed// Howard Gardner contends that "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our [|understanding] of important questions, topics, and themes." Today's readers become literate by [|learning to read] the [|words and symbols] in today's world and its antecedents. They analyze, compare, evaluate and interpret multiple representations from a variety of disciplines and subjects, including texts, photographs, artwork, and data. They learn to [|choose and modify] their own communication based on the [|rhetorical situation]. [|Point of view] is created by the reader, the audience and the medium.
 * Corporate and Non-Profit Agencies**

The Center for Public Education (National School Boards Assn.): Executive summary: Defining a 21st Century education [|Defining a 21st Century Education-- Full report (PDF)], [|How globalization is changing the world (21st century skills)], [|On beyond high school (21st century skills)], [|The 21st century job (21st century skills),]Definitions of 21st century skills, a discussion of [|Basics v. 2.0 (21st century skills)], policies,

Partnership for 21st Century Skills ["The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a coalition of corporations and organizations that serves as a catalyst to position 21st century skills at the center of US K-12 education by building collaborative partnerships among education, business, communities and government."] See their [|Route 21].

Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education 21st Century Information Fluency The Big 6: Information & Technology Skills for Student Achievement and Super 3 Information Age Inquiry
 * Information Literacy**


 * Independence** [self reliance, time management, project management, goal setting, monitoring one's own progress, etc.]


 * Habits of Mind**

NoodleTools: Assessment
 * Assessment**

Atomic Learning: [] []

Coalition of Essential Schools Performance and Exhibitions: The Demonstration of Mastery Overview of Alternative Assessment Approaches Digital Portfolios: Documenting Student Growth

Rubrics for Assessment Rubrics for all sorts of products and collaborative tool experiences.

Silva, Elena. Measuring Skills for the 21st Century (November, 2008) a New Day for Learning]

Assessment Bookmarks on Diigo

From Now On: "//**The 21st Century Skills Bookmark: A Dozen I-words **// //**Trump the 4 Rs**//" Jamie MacKenzie has identified the following competencies for 21st Century learners: [|Inference,][|Invention], [|Innovation], [|Inquiry], [|Influence], [|Inspiration], I[|magination,][|Intuition], [|Integrity], [|Intention], [|Interpretation], [|Information], [|Insight] , 21 Things for the 21st Century Educator[
 * Blogs, Online Magazines [Ezines], etc.**