Media Skills of the Future

New Media Skills are needed to navigate the use of technology today. Transmedia navigation would refer to being able to use multiple types of media and move from one to another smoothly. Multitasking skills are necessary in order to use multiple technologies. Visual skills, collective intelligence, and distributed cognition all represent ways we process information. These aspects are extremely important in reference to the large amount of information we are all processing daily.
Using the web we must understand how to use good judgment on the information we are receiving. Negotiate information between contacts in ways never before available. Appropriation and play assist us in understanding the new media world around us. When we are able to use simulation we will process the information more accurately and therefore performance will increase.
I have not been aware of these media skills per say, at least I cannot remember a teacher explaining these to me. However, as an adult student, I believe I possess most of these skills due to maturity as well as the capacity of critical thought and examination. Upon considering all of these skills thoroughly I would believe my ten year old son possesses very few of these skills in reference to his ability to navigate the web alone. This thought motivates me to believe that teachers must teach these skills to their students without fail to incorporate critical analysis of all of the masses of information bombarding society. I do believe that these skills are needed and productive for appropriate processing of information. Due to the fact that our society will continue to become more reliant on technology based professions, students must be aware of these skills.