I shall be presenting 'Digital literacy and participatory multimodal media' 2014 National Visual Art Education Conference in Canberra. The session details are; Session ‘21st Century Learning – Changing classroom paradigms for students, teachers and institutions’ Date Tuesday 21 January at 1.30 Presentation Duration 15 min Title and précis 'Digital literacy and participatory multimodal media' Schools are the engine house of the future however there is disconnect between workplace expectations, and students’ in-school and out-of-school learning experiences. This discussion is about ‘cultures of learning’ and engaging 21 st Century students through innovative programs. Abstract “ 10 Work Skills for the Future : Sense Making, Social Intelligence, Novel and Adaptive Thinking, Cross Cultural Competency, Computational Thinking, New Media Literacy, Transdiciplinarity, Design Mindset, Cognitive Load Management, Virtual Collaboration” (Wilen-D