Harvard University psychologist Howard Gardner is the researcher whose pioneering work on multiple forms of intelligence changed that way that teachers thought about teaching and testing. Gardner has written a new book that "prescribes" the five types of minds that will be most useful in the future: the disciplined mind, the synthesizing mind, the creating mind, the respectful mind, and the ethical mind. Note that several of those minds relate to literacy:

"Discipline, creativity, and synthesis — the three cognitive “minds” — develop alongside literacy and computational skills. “Get there early” to cultivate a discipline, said Gardner, who believes in the plasticity of the young mind. “The train moves quickly.”"

Read the full article on Gardner's theory here.