Seminar I - 21st Century Skills: Literacy in a Digital Age

By Cheryl Lemke and Ed Coughlin

U.S. schools have been investing billions of dollars annually in technology, and tremendous progress has been made in building out technical infrastructures. Now it is time to take the next logical step -- to update and align students' academic learning to the realities of the 21st century. Students need to acquire 21st century skills -- and use those skills and technology tools to excel academically. Learn here how to improve your students' academic achievement through customized, informed use of 21st century skills and 21st century tools.

Participants will leave this seminar with:

• Identification of the digital literacies and 21st century skills students need to live, learn, and work in a Digital Age (see the CEO Forum Year 4 report)
• Research on how these skills will help students' academic performance
• Dozens of practical examples as to how 21st century skills will increase academic achievement across all academic areas
• Strategies for teachers to use in developing students' 21st century skills
• Tips on how to more effectively use technology to help students excel academically as they acquire 21st century skills
• Assessments by which to measure progress with technology and 21st century skills
• The statistics to explain to parents the advantages 21st century skills will bring their children

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