7.1 Preparing for the Future


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As a learner in the 21st Century, your focus is to manage change and flexibility while you balance work and play. In this time of social, environmental, and technological change, you are developing a diverse skill-set that will enable you to succeed in more than one career during your lifetime.

Life, work, and play require

  • the ability to access necessary information

  • expertise to identify trustworthy sources

  • knowledge to decode, interpret, and form decisions about information

Information is more accessible than ever before because of modern technology. However, you must practise specific skills, strategies, and processes about the use of information.




Time to Read


   Read "Online Youth Need Critical Thinking Skills" , an article by Larry Magid.

 

What do you already know about communication and interaction in your personal, work, or school routines? Have ways people connect with one another changed?

Modern tools of communication offer many choices for interaction with others. How do you decide which tool is the best to use while collaborating respectfully with others?

Exploration of any language and text enables you to respect, support, and collaborate or share with one another through speaking, writing, listening, viewing, and representing (English Language Arts (Senior High) Program Outline; 2003; Alberta Learning; Alberta, Canada). In this module, you will focus on communication and interaction as it is now and as it may work in the future.