Although twenty-first-century skills vary from author to author, they tend to cluster in two groups. One group focuses on skills essential to succeed in a time of profound and continuing change, including critical thinking, creativity, continuous learning, problem solving, adaptability, and the like. The other cluster focuses on the areas in which change is currently occurring, such as technology and media literacy skills, reflecting the nation’s shift from an analog to digital technology; cross-cultural competence, rooted both in America’s increasing population diversity and globalization;
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