High productivity currently is not a high-stakes focus of
schools, yet the skills involved in this cluster often determine
whether a person succeeds or fails in the workforce:
• Prioritizing, Planning, and Managing for Results: The ability
to organize to efficiently achieve the goals of a specific
project or problem.
• Effective Use of Real-World Tools: The ability to use realworld
tools—the hardware, software, networking, and
peripheral devices used by information technology (IT)
workers to accomplish 21st century work—to
communicate, collaborate, solve problems, and
accomplish tasks.
• Ability to Produce Relevant, High-Quality Products: The
ability to produce intellectual, informational, or material
products that serve authentic purposes and occur as a
result of students using real-world tools to solve or
communicate about real-world problems