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Session 1: //Overview//
[|Framework for 21st Century Learning]- Required Reading [|Online Learning and Virtual Schools Provide Essential New Skills for 21st Century Jobs, Says Report]- Optional Reading [|How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century]- Required Reading [|Online MILE Guide Assessment-] Required Activity [|21st Century Student]- Required Reading- from the PA dept of education- This is how the state views 21st century skills... it seems somewhat lacking to me, but I think this would be good for a comparison. [|21st Century Teacher]- from the PA dept of education [|Pathways to Performance]- Optional reading- From the PA dept of education- Technology and education in Pennsylvania- This document is not so much about 21st century skills as technology. [|A Formula for Success]- A blog post by Karl Fisch concerning teaching math in isolation. Check out the graphic...

[|21st Century Learning Environments]

**Session 2: //Learning Skills//**

 * //Learning Skills//: Critical thinking and problem-solving skills; communication skills; creativity and innovation skills; collaboration skills; Contextual learning skills; Information and media literacy skills.

[|35 Dimensions of Critical thought]- Published by the Critical Thinking Community. Includes links to remodeled lesson at various grade levels. [|The Art of Redesigning Instruction]- also published by the Critical Thinking Community- a comprehensive article on moving from "lower order, fragmented, and superficial" learning to "higher order, organized, and deep knowledge." A bit long, but good. [|Effective Communication]- From The enGauge Framework, explore each link. The information is clear and concise. [|Back to Basics: Learning to be Creative]- Keynote address at the National Governers Association by Sir Ken Robinson, PhD., international expert on creativity, innovation and education. Scroll down to August 7th, find the presentation and choose either the audio or video link (Windows Media Player). This presentation is about 45 minutes long, but it's great stuff. He presents his arguments for the need for creativity education. [|Teaching Problem Solving]- From the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED)- This site contains short video clips that show students using the different types of problem solving techniques. The source is great, with lots of examples. [|Big Six] [|Computer Skills for Information Problem-Solving: Learning and Teaching Technology in Context] Article from ERIC. [|21st Century Literacies Resources] [|Online Games for 21st Century Skills]-A excellent article from MIT about how gaming is teaching students problem solving and collaboration. [|Enabling Student Collaboration for Learning]- Published by Georgia State University- Simple Q&A format. [|Teamwork Toolkit]- Published by Griffith University. Includes tips for teaching teamwork, assessment, and handouts. [|Critical Evaluation Toolkit]- Published by Griffith University [|Problem Solving Toolkit] [|Creativity Toolkit] 1001 Flat World Tales-a worldwide collaboration to create a modern day Scheherazade type story.

Session 3: //Life Skills//
[|Life Skills]- Partnership for 21st Century Skills framework resource page. [|TeacherVision]-Lesson plans for conflict resolution [|Educators for Social Responsibility-Online Teachers Center]- Searchable database of lesson plans for social responsibility, conflict resolution and leadership. [|Character Education]-Extensive materials and resources on problem solving, dealing with conflict. Check out--the Daily Dilemma. [|Curriculum Article-Citizenship]--article with activities for teaching responsibility, ethics, citizenship to children Reading--Article from NCREL--[|Working Toward Student Self-Direction] [|Thinking Skills in Education]-Summary site for critical thinking and problem solving. Site includes links to excellent information. [|Developing Self-Directed Learners]-NWREL article on how to create a learning community of self-directed students. [|InTime: Cooperative Learning]--Integrating new technologies into the methods of education. [|The Cooperative Learning Center]-University of Minnesota. Comprehensive site with extended resources for all aspects of social responsibility and collaboration. [|Links to See for Teaching Life Skills]-Education World article with multiple resources on various life skills, decision making, personal responsibility, etc. [|Springfield High School virtual library]-Joyce Valenza's comprehensive and rich website for everything 21st Century skills, teaching and learning. Scroll down to find excellent sites for teaching ethics. Take some time to explore the whole site. Fantastic!
 * Life Skills: Leadership; ethics; accountability, adaptability, personal productivity, personal responsibility, people skills, self direction, social responsibility

Session 4: //21st Century Content//
[|21st Century Content]- Partnership for 21st Century Skills framework resource page.
 * //21st Century content//: global awareness; financial, economic, entrepreneurial, and business literacy; civic literacy, health and wellness awareness

[|Global Awareness]- Partnership for 21st Century Skills framework resource page. [|What Does Globalization Mean for Education?]- Article by Anita McAnear from the February 2007 issue of Learning and Leading with technology. [|Think Global]- Article by Dan Knezek published in Scholastic Administr@tor Magazine. [|Global Nomads Group]- A nonprofit organization committed to "fostering dialogue and understanding among the world's youth." Visit the media library to launch and view a short video about the organization. [|Global School Net]- This website is a bit busy, but it contains links to many different types of resources and project related to global awareness [|A Day in the life of a Global Connected Educator]- A blog post by Julie Lindsay, an educational technology specialist at International School Dhaka, Bangladesh. Here are some great examples for Global Awareness: http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=844
 * Global Awareness**

[|Financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy]- Partnership for 21st Century Skills framework resource page. [|Schools and Communities Tip Sheet - Teaching Children Financial Literacy]- Publisher by National Association of Social Workers (NASW). [|Financial Literacy]- The Utah State Office of education has mandated that financial literacy be taught as part of the core curriculum. Check out the teacher resources and the student/parent resources. [|Practical Money Skills-] Excellent collection of lessons, prek-12, published by Visa. This site has some wonderful interactive resources for financial literacy... http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson232.shtml [|Civic Literacy]- Partnership for 21st Century Skills framework resource page. [|PA Standards for Civics and Government] [|"To Promote the General Welfare"-] Optional Reading. A discussion guide for developing neighborhood social contracts for the city of Philadelphia. This project could be adapted for schools. An interesting breakdown and re-interpretation of the preamble of the constitution. [|CIVNET]- "CIVNET is an online resource and service for civic education practitioners (teachers, teacher trainers, curriculum designers), as well as scholars, policymakers, civic-minded journalists, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) promoting civic education all over the world." Check out Non-Governmental Organizations & Civic Education Links under the online directory. [|Civics Online]- Includes resources for teachers [|Center for Democracy and Citizenship] [|People and Politics: A Civic Literacy Curriculum]- by Ashley Hager. Contains lesson plans on various topics. [|Project Vote Smart-] Provides background information about political candidates for elections based on 9 digit zip codes. Find out who your elected officals are, and where they stand on the issues. [|The Urban Agenda- Civic Literacy Project]- Best Practices. Pulished by Wayne State University.
 * Financial, Economic, Entreprenurial, and Business Literacy**
 * Civic Literacy**

[|Health and Wellness Awareness]- Partnership for 21st Century Skills framework resource page. [|Local Wellness Policy Resources]- Developed by Pennsylvania Department of Education. [|Local Wellness Policies: They're the Law!]- by Vond Fekete. Explains law concerning wellness program in PA schools. Required reading. [|MyPyramid]- 2005 updated version of the food pyramid. Check out the links for professionals. For fun... create your own food pyramid.
 * Health and Wellness Awareness**


 * Session 5: //ICT literacy/21st Century Tools//**
 * //ICT Literacy//
 * //21st Century tools//
 * //Information and media literacy//

[|ICT Literacy Maps]- From the Partnership for 21st Century Skills- ties ICT literacy to the Core areas of math, English, geography and science [|Digital Immigrant Remedial Vocabulary]- Explanation of tech terms for novices 21st Century Learning Project- Wiki for the Alamaba Best Practices Center
 * ICT Literacy**

[|Learning 2.0: The Things]- "23 Things (or small exercises) that you can do on the web to explore and expand your knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0." Originally published by Public Library of Charlotte Mecklenburg County for staff development. (The staff could receive a free Mp3 player or laptop as an incentive for complting all 23.) Some of these activites are specific to the library staff, but most of the activities can be complete by anyone. Most of the items have podcasts embedded at the beginning of the post to allow you to listen to direction.
 * 21st Century Tools**

[|Web 2.0 Tools for Educators]- Published by IMSA (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy) provides a brief overview of many types of web 2.0 tools with links to some of the big names out there. Does not include podcasting [|School is Out for Web 2.0]- Also by IMSA, describes the roles of Web 2.0 tools in education. Must register (free) to view this article. [|The Future Wave of School Volunteerism: Be the Textbook]- An interesting blog post by Vicki Davis concerning virtual volunteering. The Machine is Us/ing Us: (video below) media type="youtube" key="6gmP4nk0EOE"

[|Inclusion]- Required. This is a POWERFUL 5 minute quicktime video about how 21st century tools can be used in the classroom, specifically, Skype. [|A New Kind of Rhyme]- Blog posting from the blog Learning and Laptops. The post, written by a ninth grade student, discusses how her class was using 21st century technology to learn about poetry. Then check out the [|poetry podcasts] from the same class.

[|Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning]- Pubuished by the American Association of School Librarians and the Assoication for Educational and Communications Technology. Identifies Information literacy standards and perofmance indicators. --an excellent guide to introducing medial literacy into the classroom. [|Medialit Powerpoint]- A condensed version of the above resources- addresses media literacy --Presentation by Ian Jukes at NECC 2006, San Diego on how technology is transforming education. [|Don't Buy It!- Media Literacy]--this is a wonderful and fun exploration of commercials and the presentation of information [|Media Literacy Clearinghouse: Resources for the classroom]--Activities and lesson plans to help kids become critical thinkers and readers [|November Learning]- This is a great site for information and media literacy
 * Information and Media Literacy**

**Session 6: //Assessing// //21st Century Skills//**
Enter Resources Here: [|Assessing 21st Century Skills]-From the Partnership for 21st century Education Provides an overview of the need for authentic assessment in 21st Century Skills [|ICT Literacy Assessment]-Sales demo from ETS, provides and introduction to the types of skills that are evaluated and a tour of the actual assessment. [|Intel Education Assessment Library]- Provides sample assessments for 21st century skills [|Assess 21 Definitions]- From the Partnership for 21st century Education- provides objectives for the various types of skills related to 21st century learning [|Assess 21 Database]- Use the search at a glance feature to search for assessments realted to your lesson. [|Picturing the Possibilities: Performance Matters]- 5 minutes video about how one teacher assesses students who are modeling work in the real world. media type="youtube" key="HlQA10nJGeQ"