What is the national educational technology goal for technology and information literacy skills?
Goal 3: All students will have technology and information literacy skills. The need to prepare students with the skills they need to participate fully in our increasingly technological society has become a major priority for the nation. A meaningful, unified approach to providing students with the skills they will need for their futures must be more than a checklist of isolated technology skills; rather, these skills are only a first step in assuring all our children become proficient information and technology users. Also necessary are information problem-solving skills, such as how to define tasks, identify information seeking strategies, locate and access information, determine information’s relevance, organize and communicate the results of the information problem-solving effort and evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the solution. The call for this new “21st-century literacy” in no way supplants current efforts by states and districts to set and even raise academic standa
