21st Century Skills

"In Defense of School Librarians Fostering 21st Century Skills in Our Students"

KYLE, T. (2014). In defense of school librarians Fostering 21st century skills in our   

  students. Canadian Children's Book News, 37(1), 4-5.

Summary:

This article talks about the importance of “fostering some of the most essential 21st century skills — critical evaluation, synthesis, empathy, communication” (Kyle 2014).  It also discusses how learners can gain and improve these skills such as reading and information seeking.  I also learned that 21st century skills help learners find and analyze information.

It discusses how libraries are important in helping learners achieve success in learning and using 21st century skills.  More and more schools are doing away with full time school librarians.  

I would recommend this article because it helped me understand the negative effects of this shift when he writes, “The search for information — that complex, often frustrating, but ultimately satisfying process that is essential to real learning from elementary to graduate education — is left to teachers on their own to guide, with few resources, another demand added to the myriad challenges they face.” (Kyle 2014).