With today’s innundation of available information, parents and students must understand how to navigate their way through the ‘rough’ to get to the ‘diamonds’ AND to know the ‘diamonds’ when they see them. So how is literacy changing in the 21st century?

It is no longer sufficient to learn to read and learn to write well. Now we need to determine sources’ validity, we need to be able to write for an expanding audience pool and do so in formats that never existed before the last few years.

Some of the essential skills are to read critically, write clearly, interpret information, evaluate sources, and to blend visual, sound, and written elements into creative pieces.

I’d love to hear from parents or teachers who are managing to do these things well!