Information and communications technologies (ICT) are changing everything, transforming organizations, and redefining the skills and talents needed to succeed in the 21st century. At the individual level, the ability to understand and make use of ICT--digital literacy--is proving essential to employment success, civic participation, accessing entertainment, and education--it is truly revolutionizing how people work, live, play, and learn. Eight of the top 10 fastest growing occupations require computer skills, with high tech jobs paying--on average--almost twice as much as non high-tech jobs. This article describes the most widely-known and widely-used approach to teaching information and technology literacy skills in the world. The Big6 model, developed by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz, integrates information search and use skills with technology tools in a systematic process to find, use, apply, and evaluate information to specific needs and tasks. The Big6 is designed to help students learn powerful and effective information and technology problem-solving strategies. The Big6 Skills can be correlated not only to ICT Literacy standards but academic content standards as well. Educators can use the Big6 Skills to guide students to develop the critical thinking skills that will enable them to meet ICT Literacy proficiencies. If educators promote and use an information problem-solving process like the Big6 Skills, they can help students learn to locate, select, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information from a variety of sources in order to make intelligent decisions. These are the higher-level thinking skills people can use in any content area, at any level, and can continue to use throughout their lives, no matter what new technology or information systems they encounter. (Contains 3 figures.)