21st+Century+Learning

Define
for the 21st Century ** || ** ISTE Standards for Teachers ** || ** Partnership for 21st Century Skills ** || Student Learning and Creativity || Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes || and Leading by Influence || Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments || Learning and Innovation Skills || and Responsibility ||  Life and Career Skills || and Leadership ||  21st Century Support Systems ||
 * ** Tony Wagner’s Seven Survival Skills
 * Critical Thinking and Problem Solving || Facilitate and Inspire
 * Collaboration Across Networks
 * Agility and Adaptability || Model Digital-Age Work and Learning || Information, Media and Technology Skills ||
 * Initiative and Entrepreneurialism || Promote and Model Digital Citizenship
 * Effective Oral and Written Communication || Engage in Professional Growth
 * Accessing and Analyzing Information || || ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">Curiosity and Imagination || || ||

Discover
Alan November, Who Owns the Learning In this film, November challenges some of the accepted wisdom about technology in schools and proposes a scheme for enabling students to become more active participants in a 21st century classroom. []

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Learning to Change, Changing to Learn [] includes commentary from author Daniel Pink, Stephen Heppell, Ken Kay, other educational leaders and innovators media type="custom" key="3955483"

Learning to Change, Changing to Learn: Student Voices [] media type="custom" key="3955473"

Develop
MILES Self Evaluation 23 Questions taking approximately 20 minutes to complete. Once you have completed the self assessment click the link to review results. When the results appear from the Edit menu choose Select All, then from the Edit menu choose Copy. Launch a new Word document. From the Word Edit menu choose Paste. Save As... with the file name MILE_yourname_ddmmyyy (Ex. MILE_bobsample_03172010). Next Steps will be at the bottom of the page, below that add to the document your personal reflections and commentary. Save the file often as you work and be able to locate it when it comes time to submit to the course facilitaor as described in the course materials.

Additional Resources
[|21st Century Skills]

Intenational Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (ISTE NETS*T)

[|Tony Wagner], The Global Achievement Gap: Seven Survival Skills for the 21st Century