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21st Century Skills: Will Our Students Be Prepared?
Aug 28 2008 5:05PM** //Learning for the 21st Century//, a report from a new public-private coalition known as the Partnership for 21st Century Skills ([|www.21stcenturyskills.org]), articulates a vision of how schools can best prepare students to succeed in the first decades of the 21st century. Central to the report's recommendations is a call for schools to focus on six key elements of 21st century learning: Read rest of article here: [|Recent Research on 21st Century Schools]
 * Judy Salpeter
 * URL:**http://www.techlearning.com/article/13832

**nex+gen Academy plans for a Language Lab similar to the description below using Rosetta Stone. What are your thoughts?**
=**Schools Fuel Demand for High-Tech Language Labs**= **By** [|Michelle R. Davis]

When students of Spanish teacher Sean M. Boettinger put on their headsets in his Maryland high school’s language lab, their concentration heightens, he says. The up-to-date digital equipment, says the teacher, keeps them engaged with teenage-friendly electronics, allows them to get more practice listening and speaking Spanish, and, most important, blocks out distractions. ==** This recent article in Education Week has a link to our work. What are your thoughts?**==

==**Questions are being raised about whether the push for ‘21st-century skills’ is an attempt by technology companies to gain more influence over the classroom.**== Depending on whom you ask, “21st-century skills” can mean different things: technology literacy, the ability to analyze and apply knowledge, a knack for working effectively with colleagues in teams. In what is probably its most visible form for educators, though, the term refers to the work of the **[|Partnership for 21st Century Skills]**, the Tucson, Ariz.-based public-private initiative that has put the provision of all those skills at the center of its agenda.
 * By** [|Stephen Sawchuk]

I discovered an interesting article from the ISTE, International Society for Technology in Education, in the Admin SIG, Special Interest Group, called

“I am a citizen of the world” Creating a 21st Century Learning Community, Article submitted by Mary Ellen Kalil Shevalier

She proposes the following model for creating a learning community:


 * 21st Century World Class Learning Equation **
 * ©Shevalier 2008 **
 * Step One: Inspiration + Collaboration + Teaming Process **
 * Step Two: Propose + Research + Create **
 * Step Three: Presentation + Assessment + Reflection **
 * Knowledge
 * Step Three: Presentation + Assessment + Reflection **
 * Knowledge
 * Knowledge

In the attached article. What are your thoughts?

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