Agile Learner

Multiple Methods of Assessment

Agile Learners [Agilearners] are just-in-time as well as lifespan learners that thrive on change and have the skills and attributes needed to excel in the virtual corporations of the 21st Century. They are team players who know how to manage and make information actionable. They approach their responsibilities with integrity and a sense of the common purpose. They are flexible thinkers who know how to examine basic assumptions. They are "knowledgeable workers" and more!

Attributes of the Agilearner

Skills of the Agilearner

Personal

flexible
creative
introspective
curious
imaginative
adaptable
aesthetically aware
ambiguity tolerant
acts from integrity

Essential

literacy/numeracy

mastery of technology

communication

negotiation

Interpersonal

celebrates diversity
altruistically motivated
effectively interdependent
---collaborator
---team player

Performance

systems thinking
pattern detecting
synthesizing
analyzing
experimenting
problem solving
decision making
reflective thinking

THE WORLD OF THE AGILEARNER

Indicators of success in the 21st Century Learning Society include:

love of learning
healthy self-esteem
body-mind congruity
self-rescripting
community consciousness

The agilearner is a strong individual in a self-governing system -- one who is not a sponge of information, but rather one who has sovereignty over information and is capable of reflection and choice.

For the agilearner, information and technology are tools used to build a life of learning. The agilearner:

masters information
thrives on continuous learning and continuous improvement
understands, uses, and benefits from technology.

The Industrial Age	The Information Age
please superiors command-and-control stable meddle conforming need-to-know fiefdoms	delight customers empowering and participatory agile enable outside-the-box open and transparent interdependent networks