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Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally about what to do or what to believe. It includes the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking. Someone with critical thinking skills is able to do the following : understand the logical connections between ideas.

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Creativity is a skill that can be developed and a process that can be managed. Creativity begins with a foundation of knowledge, learning a discipline, and mastering a way of thinking.

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Collaborative skills are the specific ways in which students are expected to behave in order to achieve class norms. After norms have been developed, collaborative skills are assessed, prioritized and taught.

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The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.

Types of Communication Skills :
1. Verbal Communication -  it take place over the phone or in person. The medium of the message is oral.
2. Written Communication -  involves any type of message that makes use of the written word.
3. Non-verbal Communication -  includes pitch, speed, tone and volume of voice, gestures and facial expressions, body posture, stance, and proximity to the listener, eye movements and contact, and dress and appearance.

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Information literacy is a crucial skill in the pursuit of knowledge. It involves recognizing when information is needed and being able to efficiently locate, accurately evaluate, effectively use, and clearly communicate information in various formats.

5 Components of Information Literacy :
1. Identity
Ex : writing a thesis statement
2. Find
Ex : finding article from the library databases
3. Evaluate
Ex : summarizing the main ideas of an article or book
4. Apply
Ex : paraphrasing an essay to support a position in persuasive speech
5. Acknowledge
Ex : citing an information source in the text of a research paper

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Media Literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms. Definitions, however, evolve over time and a more robust definition is now needed to situate media literacy in the context of its importance for the education of students in a 21st century media culture.

Five Core Concepts

All media messages are constructed

Media messages are constructed using a creative language with its own rules

Different people experience the same media message differently

Media have embedded values and points of view

Most media messages are organized to gain profit and/or power.

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Technology literacy is the ability of an individual, working independently and with others, to responsibly, appropriately and effectively use technology tools to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create and communicate information.

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Deviating from plans as needed
Flexibility is the expression of someone’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

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Motivating a team to accomplish a goal. Leadership skills are an essential component in positioning executives to make thoughtful decisions about their organization's mission and goals, and properly allocate resources to achieve those directives.

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Starting projects, strategies, and plans on one’s own

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Maintaining efficiency in an age of distractions. The productive skills are speaking and writing, because learners doing these need to produce language. They are also known as active skills. They can be compared with the receptive skills of listening and reading.

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Meeting and networking with others for mutual benefit