21st Century Skills

Here's a list drawn up as part of a White Paper titled: Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century by Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologywith Katie Clinton, Ravi Purushotma, Alice J. Robinson, Margaret Weigel:

1. Play — the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving
   
2. Performance — the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery
3. Simulation — the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes
4. Appropriation — the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content
5. Multitasking — the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details.
6. Distributed Cognition — the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities
7. Collective Intelligence — the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal
8. Judgment — the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources
9. Transmedia Navigation — the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities
10. Networking (information) — the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information
11. Negotiation — the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms.
    

Note that implicit in the above skills set is metacognition or reflective learning which focuses on the learner's ability to monitor and regulate his/her learning. More of the paper here.