A solid list of 21st century skills from Stephen Downes (bold emphasis below from DSC)
- emergent thinking: extracting patterns, rules, regularities, prototypes
- sensing value – finding meaning, truth, relevance, purpose, goals
- acting semiotically – using signs, signals, art, desig, etc., to do things
- seeing beyond – describing, defining, drawing conclusions, explaining data
- ecological sensitivity – placing in context, seeing frames, making meaning
- living in change – understanding flow, adaptation, progression
These are literacies that reflect the times and not simply the fact that we have a lot of machines.