| The goal here is for the test taker to then evaluate these different sources of information and rank them by relevance to solving the problem that has been given. Search skills extend memory outside one's skin to the resources that surround in one's environment. Power outages and lack of access can quickly situate one back in Stone Age in the previous century. Such tasks often define what it means to live and be human in the twenty-first century. Neomillennial skills? Such skills include fluency with multiple media and the ability to create and remix online content as well as engage in various online communication and interaction activities. Neomillennial learners prefer the nonlinear and hypermedia forms of learning in which they grew up. |