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Information Literacy is a transformational process in which the learner needs to find, understand, evaluate, and use information in various forms to create for personal, social or global purposes.

A selection of 42 different websites that spark a conversation on information literacy using flowgram for the presentation

The following resources have been compiled to help high school students understand issues related to digital citizenship such as: cyberbullying, social networking, online safety and ethics, and critical media literacy.

Learn Skills are organized as Research, Essay and Study.

In a nutshell, it's this: invite your students to turn your content, whatever your subject matter, into five-minute "top of the hour" newscasts, applying the craft of writing for radio (great resource here), and then speaking for radio. Then have them follow up, at certain points, with "talk radio" in which they discuss and debate their "content news."

This is a WONDERFUL site for students and teachers to utilize, not only to read and access multimedia versions of picture books but also to PUBLISH original books. I highly recommend BigUniverse and encourage you to give the site a try.

As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able.

Here are two 30 minute lessons that I've developed for 3rd grade students on the benefits and pitfalls of the World (Wild) Web. For good reason, parents and teachers are concerned when children begin browsing, so I wanted to compile an informative and memorable lesson.

In the new global economy, with many jobs being either automated or "off-shored," what skills will students need to build successful careers? What skills will they need to be good citizens? Are these two education goals in conflict?

Lately, I've been focusing on using technology effectively and productively. Here Godin connects skills with productivity.

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills recently released a new report, 21st Century Skills, Education & Competitiveness, which investigates the links between strong, viable economies and 21st century education systems. Creating a 21st century education system that prepares students, workers, and citizens to triumph in the global skills race is the central economic competitiveness issue currently facing the United States.