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21st Century Curriculum: Skills and Literacies
This wiki is a space for us to begin working on some important issues regarding teaching, learning, and technology. The teachers who will be contributing here will be helping the Middle School set a direction for education in the 21st century.

**Goals**
Develop a cohesive, spiral approach to academic technology in grades 7-12.
 * Identify and define "21st century skills and literacies"
 * Articulate the inclusion and progression of these skills and literacies within the curriculum

**MICDS Mission Statement**
Our work with curriculum must be consistent with and support the Mission Statement. To frame this relationship, review and reflect upon the questions posed during our January 30 workshop with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach.

**Skills and Literacies**
Whether they are deemed skills or literacies, it's important to articulate what students need to know and be able to do in the 21st century. Drawing from the [|Partnership for 21st Century Skills] and the [|NCREL/Metri Group], we have tentatively identified six broad categories of literacy:


 * Basic Literacy
 * Visual/Media Literacy
 * Information Literacy
 * Citizenship and Ethical Literacy
 * Network Literacy
 * Global Literacy

We will begin our work together by addressing the issue of Basic Literacy.