- Teach students how to ask good, engaging, investigatory questions
- Believe that content matters
- Create opportunities for students to identify, collect, analyze and synthesize information from sources around the world
- Question perspective - that of the student and of the 'other'
- Communicate ideas using the power of language and media
- Have students take action at their age-appropriate grade levels
- Constantly draw connections between experiences
- Increase student interaction with global technologies
- Participate in interactions with other cultures via new/existing technologies
- Foster the understanding that ever decision and action has a ripple effect that spreads beyond the local arena.
"Literacy in the Digital Age." enGauge 21st Century Skills. North Central Regional Educational Laboratory and the Metiri Group. 2003.