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The teacher says, "Ok class take out your iPads and find the best geometric form for a deep sea submarine."

The students can find out the necessary information

They can also collaborate with their peers

Her district offers group and individual training to teachers and special ­education support staff year-round.

Foster Peer-to-Peer Learning

Let the Students Teach

For special education students, playing virtual guitars helps with fine-motor skills. Autistic students, tasked with navigating a virtual raft down a virtual river with their classmates, practice cooperation, social skills and overcoming obstacles.

helps English language learners who struggle with reading

teachers reporting that students are more interested in lessons and that their comprehension has improved

To address this gap, the 3-year ITL (Innovative Teaching and Learning) Research project was designed to study teaching practices that support students’ learning of 21st century skills and the system of supports that can help teachers to adopt those practices. The research was carried out in a uniquely diverse set of seven countries:  Austr

The learning activities make a difference

ICT has great potential for supporting innovative pedagogies, but it is not a magic ingredient.

Flipped Classroom is an inverted method of instruction where teaching and learning take place online outside of the class while  homework is done in the classroom

Flipped Classroom shifts the learning responsibility and ownership  from the teacher's hands  into the students'.  Students tend to perform better when they control when, where and how they learn. Teachers no longer dispense knowledge but rather guide and direct while students are the real active learners  Teachers create animated videos and interactive lessons and lectures and students access them at home in advance of class even. In this way all students can re-watch the video tutorials whenever they want. Classroom time can be geared towards data collection, collaboration, and application. Class becomes a place for students to work through problems, advance concepts, and engage in collaborative learning. Flipped Classroom also "allows teachers to reflect on and develop quality and engaging learning opportunities and options for internalization, creation, and application of content rather than just fluff or time filling assignments."

A direct and concrete example of Flipped Classroom concept is the popular Khan Academy. This website  has completely reshaped home instruction via providing more than 2800 free videos and tutorials available in 16 languages and covering a wide range of topics such as Math, Physics, Geometry, cosmology, microeconomics and many more

The 21st century teachers are characterized by certain holistic and student centered features , some of them are summarized below . Gratitude and thanks go back to Andrew Churches who has provided this diagram .

The risk taker :

The Collaborator :

The five ideas below highlight some areas in which tablets can complement or surpass a classroom laptop.

Analyze and 'code' learning activities to see how deeply they integrate 21st century skills Collaborate in designing new learning activities that provide deeper 21st century skills development Examine the impact of these learning activities on students' work Use ICT as part of the process

21st Century Learning Design is based on the way ITL Research studies and measures innovative teaching practices. 21st Century Learning Design asks teachers and school leaders to

Teachers review the 21CLD rubrics that define each 21st century skill (e.g. 'problem solving'); Then they analyze and code an existing learning activity (lesson) according to one rubric (for example, does a science project on cell structure score a 2 or a 4 on the "problem solving" rubric?); They review student work done as a response to the lesson and code it; Then they refine the lesson to have a higher score on the problem solving rubric – providing students with more in-depth opportunities to develop this skill. They follow this same process across many different rubrics, lessons and student work products.