Mashing Content, Information Literacy and 21st Century Skills

Bullard, Sherrie

IL

Bordelon, K. (2015). Mashing Content, Information Literacy, and 21st Century Skills. In Global Learn (Vol. 2015, No. 1, pp. 390-395).

Summary:

This paper addresses strategies educators can use to engage students during student-centered lessons incorporating multimedia tools. In addition to teaching skills and knowledge for a specific content area, educators are now faced with teaching 21st century and information literacy skills. Incorporating student centered assignments using multimedia tools allows students to mash content and demonstrate learning in the subject matter as well as other skills. No fancy equipment is necessary. Online multimedia tools coupled with sites that provide content related multimedia can easily be used by students to demonstrate achievement in content areas, 21st century skills, and information literacy skills.

Evaluation:

This is a great article that addresses strategies that educators can use to engage students. I like that the article states that no fancy equipment is needed.