I was asked what skills I would want to assess if I were to reform "standards-based" education.   David Gibson, who will be one of our participants in a MacArthur Peer-to-Peer Pedgagogy HASTAC Scholars Workshop next fall, posed this question.  Here are the skills I think are important and that I'd love to be able to assess in a meaningful way.

Beyond the ability to synthesize, analyze, and communicate, are there skills you view as indispensable to all but the most stubborn Luddites?

As an IMLS Digital Humanities Intern at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities this summer, I talked to a variety of digital humanists about the technical abilities they felt students intending to work in the field should know.