1. Information Literacy Concepts IL Strategy Workshop Day 1 Session 1

2. Objectives During this session, you will: Consider the concept of 21 st Century skills Consider the concept of Digital natives Discuss the relevance of these skills in your context Consider how to foster these skills

3. IL conception ‘broadening ’ Whatknot, flickr.com

4. The Digital Natives Gideon Burton, flickr.com

5. 21 st Century Skills nicholasroseth.com

6. 2014 and beyond… How can we prepare our citizens to be: –Autonomous / self-directed –Independent –Life-long learners –Critically engaged / critical thinkers –Problem solvers, creative & adaptive –Social, civic & corporate responsibility (appropriate behaviours, approaches, cognitive functions & skills)

7. Group activity (30 mins) What is your opinion of the concepts of a ‘digital native’ and ‘21st Century Skills’ –Review two blog posts, which argues that these concepts are ‘myths’ –Share your viewpoint and develop a response to the post –Share your response with the group

8. Article #1: Doug Belshaw, dougbelsaw.com Source: http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2011/06/08/the-myth-underpinning-21st-century-skills-future-of-education/http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2011/06/08/the-myth-underpinning-21st-century-skills-future-of-education/

9. Article #2: Jared Chung, The social entrepreneurship

10. Activity guideline Read the blog, and responses from wider community Compare / contrast by considering the relevance of: –the concept in your setting, do you think these concepts apply? What have you observed? –Formulate a response in less than 10 lines (400 words) –Be prepared to present your views!

11. Presenting ideas Tell us what your article was about Share your response

12. w4nd3rl0st (InspiredinDesMoines), flickr.com

13. Outcomes By the end of this session, you will be able to: Describe the concepts and competencies of 21 st Century skills, knowledge & behaviours Explain the importance of information literacy / 21 st Century skills Begin to consider the range of skills that need to be fostered in your organisation

14. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License 19/01/201614 Course materials developed by Siobhan Duvigneau Information Literacy manager, IDS S.Duvigneau@ids.ac.uk