Reviewing the “Learning for the 21st Century (A Report and MILE Guide for 21st Century Skills),” I think that to be a successful learners for 21 century there are two features: independent learners and cooperation work. Though independent and cooperation sounds contradict to each other but I will explain them in detail.
For the independent learners, I mean here, is the ability to learn by themselves. They have to develop the ability to search the sources among tons of exploring information everyday; they have to develop the ability to decode different types of resources, such as multimedia, digital resources, printed content, etc. The main point is that, they must know what’s there, and how can they manipulate these resources even when there’s no instructors. For cooperation work, I mean here, is the ability to communicate with others. Though online community didn’t have a strict regulation compared to the real world, online community have their rules. Like citing people’s work in printed paper, online users have to tag or provide hyperlinks when using others’ works. The knowledge is also constructed by communication process. For example, people write a paragraph of Wikipedia, and other people add more paragraphs. Some people have other opinions to the existing paragraph so that they edit them. A complete piece of Wikipedia is then constructed by the communication process.
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I enjoyed your Digital Literacy posting because I am very interested in digital literacy skills and wrote my mid-term assignment on this subject. However, I took a completely different view, in how digital literacy skills would help the user function in the business world, while you were more concerned with online collaboration. Good post.
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