21st Century Skills I've been reading about the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and about the report called "Milestones for Improving Learning and Education (MILE) Guide for 21st Century Skills" that this consortium issued at the NECC conference in June. This is a great effort, but isn't it what school librarians have been talking about for a long time? Information literacy, critical thinking, problem-solving,... Why isn't AASL right in the middle of this organization? I also wonder how these skills compare with NCREL's (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory) enGuage document, 21st Century Skills: Digital Literacies for a Digital Age.This latter document was cited in the recent ALA resolution, "School Libraries and Librarians are Critical to Educational Success." I certainly hope we find some way to pool our efforts. This is where I see the danger of the library/technology divide that is so evident in individual schools as well as in national and international organizations. Look at the separate committees for technology and libraries in ECIS. At least NECC now has a special interest group for media specialists (SIGMS). The presentation I am putting together for the AASL conference in October will talk about this, and from a look at the preliminary program for that conference, I'm not the only one addressing the issue of the need for better library/tech partnerships. 9:40:17 AM     [comment []];[]