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what's required of schools is not developing within students a whole other skill set, but simply teaching them to apply to a new arena the ones they already have
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Jaime Dial on 23 Mar 11A key point. Often times we get caught up in thinking this has to be more on the plate. It's not. It's about shifting our focus a little.
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K-12 graduates should understand how to use it to define and break down a problem, look into how similar problems have been solved, and design and implement a solution. In communicating that solution, they should be skillful not merely at typing a Word document but also at telling a compelling story through an interactive multimedia presentation.
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"Today's students could be technologically literate as well as great communicators in traditional settings," Knezek says, "but get the socks beaten off them by someone who has learned to communicate in a digital setting."
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While many schools have taken the step of asking students to use digital media in assignments, few are teaching them strategies for doing it well
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Fadel and others concerned about the tech skills of the future workforce also emphasize the importance of information and communication technology literacy: a working knowledge of computers and the applications that run on them--everything from e-mail and spreadsheet tools to statistical analysis packages--along with the ability to learn new ones rapidly.
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"There is a skill to typing the right question into the search engine and knowing how to discriminate between different sources of information."