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NCTE Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment
Applied to students of English language arts, the literacy demands of the 21st century have implications for how teachers plan, support, and assess student learning. Teachers benefit from reflecting on questions associated with 21st century literacy dema
Education Week: Pa. Auto Students Focused on $10 Million X Prize
Popular Mechanics ranked the West Philly Hybrid X Team — one of only two high schools in the field — in the Top 10 early contenders last year.
"Many people still see us as very serious competitors," team director Simon Hauger said.
Contest officials ear
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education of the 21st Century - National Writing Project
Educators today confront an ever-shifting landscape when it comes to Internet technologies and their potential for expanding participatory cultures. Henry Jenkins, director of the Comparative Media Studies department at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
Digital Citizenship Education
The Digital Citizenship and Creative Content program is a free, turnkey instructional program. The goal is to create an awareness of the rights connected with creative content. Because only through education can students gain an understanding of the relev
ISTE Director on Education Technology and Building 21st Century Schools : April 2009 : THE Journal
"The real goal," Knezek explained, "lies in moving all the programs in a school forward toward 21st century learning, or digital age learning." This can clear the way for funding that, up to now, has been categorically reserved for departments, projects,
Snapshots of 21st Century Skills
Route 21 Snapshots illustrate how 21st century skills are being taught and learned in classrooms today. Each of these snapshots contains several distinct examples of how a particular skill is being taught in the context of a core subject or 21st century t
The White House - Press Office - Remarks of President Barack Obama A Complete and Competitive American Education US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
And I am calling on our nation’s Governors and state education chiefs to develop standards and assessments that don’t simply measure whether students can fill in a bubble on a test, but whether they possess 21st century skills like problem-solving and cri
Apple - ACOT2 - About ACOT2
Apple Classroom of Tomorrow - 6 principles for 21st Century classrooms.
Top News - NCTE defines writing for the 21st century
The prevalence of blogs, wikis, and social-networking web sites has changed the way students learn to write, according to the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)--and schools must adapt in turn by developing new modes of writing, designing new
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Educational Origami is a blog , and a wiki, about the integration of ICT into the classroom, this is one of the largest challenges that I feel we as teachers face. Its about 21st Century Learning and 21st Century Teaching. Marc Prensky coined the now popu
What to learn: 'core knowledge' or '21st-century skills'? - USATODAY.com
But a small group of outspoken education scholars is challenging that assumption, saying the push for 21st-century skills is taking a dangerous bite out of precious classroom time that could be better spent learning deep, essential content. For the first
AHS Learning Network
The Arapahoe High School Learning Network. A collection of blogs from teachers, students, and staff at Arapahoe High School listed all in one place for everyone to read.
What is the role of the teacher in the age of Google? - BusinessWeek
Chris Lehmann is the founding principal of the Science Leadership Academy. He spoke last week at Ignite Philly, an evening event at which speakers get 5 minutes to talk about 20 slides, which automatically rotate after 15 seconds (the Pecha Kucha school o
List of Free Tech Tools - 21st Century Literacy
List of free Web 2.0 tools that support 21st Century Literacy skills.
Welcome! | Teachers Connecting
A place for K-12 teachers to find other teachers for cross-classroom collaboration.
Infinite Thinking Machine - 21st Century Skills
This week, it's my turn to come up with a thoughtful list of resources for teachers, and I have chosen the theme of 21st Century Skills. ...I recommend the following resources for investigating the idea of 21st Century Skills:
Scholastic | You Innovate 21
The aim of this site is to encourage students to become the innovators of the future. In addition to offering multimedia ways to learn how some innovations have occurred, it also provides three areas - Learning Space, Career Pathway, and Multimedia. Learn
Young Minds, Fast Times: The Twenty-First-Century Digital Learner | Edutopia
After hosting dozens of these conversations, I realize one thing: We just don't listen enough to our students. The tradition in education has been not to ask the students what they think or want, but rather for adult educators to design the system and cur
Programming: The New Literacy | Edutopia
I believe the single skill that will, above all others, distinguish a literate person is programming literacy, the ability to make digital technology do whatever, within the possible one wants it to do -- to bend digital technology to one's needs, purpose
My School, Meet MySpace: Social Networking at School | Edutopia
Months before the newly hired teachers at Philadelphia's Science Leadership Academy (SLA) started their jobs, they began the consuming work of creating the high school of their dreams -- without meeting face to face. They articulated a vision, planned cur
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