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The National Council of Teachers of English have come up with their definition of 21st-Century Literacies. As you can read elsewhere on this site, I have written a paper titled Literacy Isn’t Enough  in which I argue that we have to work to achieve Fluency not just Literacy. When you’re Literate you still have to think about it. Fluency is like riding a bicycle - you don’t have to think about the bike, you unconsciously know what to do. It’s clear that there are many Literacies/Fluencies - what I like about the NCTE’s definition is that it includes Ethical

According to the ACTE

Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies. These literacies—from reading online newspapers to participating in virtual classrooms—are multiple, dynamic, and malleable. As in the past, they are inextricably linked with particular histories, life possibilities and social trajectories of individuals and groups. Twenty-first century readers and writers need to

• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
• Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and
cross-culturally
• Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of
purposes
• Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous
information
• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts
• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments