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The trick is to never let technology erode the relationships in your classroom.  It takes awhile understand to how to effectively create the same relationships that existed in a traditional classroom.  When the teacher is talking less and the students are interacting more, the process for building community looks and feels very different.

It means that education must engage new technologies, equip students with rigorous academic coursework, and foster innovation and creativity.

: Twenty-first-century skills are the special abilities children need to develop so that they can be prepared for the challenges of work and life in the 21st century.

While a 21st century education still involves mastering the content of core academic subjects, it is proposed that the teaching of the skills identified above, be infused throughout the curriculum.

A particularly effective learning method that incorporates these principles are group learning projects driven by an engaging, real-world questions or problems. These inquiry- and design-based, collaborative learning projects5 are a powerful learning method especially suited for building the essential 21st century skills-and-knowledge listed in the rainbow model above

An important new concept in education is that literacy is always changing, and with that you need to adapt to new methods of teaching. Instead of just teaching students how to read and write, you need to be sure they are literate in technology as well. Teaching students about technology should be part of the curriculum

The attitude of teachers towards EVEs and their adoption into classroom activity is another factor. Some teachers may not be interested in new technologies, perceiving them as a waste of time or as a too radical change to their traditional methodology, or simply they may not be familiar with computers and they may not like the fact that their students often have more expertise than them. This issue can be partially tackled by involving teachers in the design of EVEs, by offering them computer training and by developing learning environments that do not require them to demonstrate any expertise.