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We hear a lot about the 21st century learner - but what about the 21st century teacher? Andrew Churches investigates what makes them succeed. What are the characteristics we would expect to see in a successful 21st century educator? Well, we know they are student-centric, holistic, and they're teaching about how to learn as much as teaching about the subject area. We know, too, that

Building a 21st century school now has an easy answer: Google Apps Education Edition

Building a 21st century school now has an easy answer: Google Apps Education Edition Google Message Security, powered by Postini, is included free for K-12 schools who sign-up by July 2010. No hardware to maintain, no software to install, no ads, and no cost for schools.

Gooru is a free platform for 21st century teachers and students. We offer a powerful tool for discovering complete lesson plans and curating content

Ed Tech Competitive Grants, funded with ESEA and ARRA funds, support programs that stimulate the use of educational technology to improve teaching and learning. Grants assist schools in developing 21st century classrooms as envisioned by the Educational Technology Plan for Virginia: 2010 - 2015

Are American schools doing as poorly preparing kids for the 'real world' as test scores suggest? We looked at the data and how it was disaggregated, and saw...

This year, after having amassed a collection of more than 20,000 books, officials at the pristine campus about 90 minutes west of Boston have decided the 144-year-old school no longer needs a traditional library. The academy's administrators have decided to discard all their books and have given away half of what stocked their sprawling stacks - the classics, novels, poetry, biographies, tomes on every subject from the humanities to the sciences. The future, they believe, is digital.

This is a stylization of a slideshow originally created by Karl Fisch, examining globalization and America's future.

Lesson Grade Level Chart Which lessons are appropriate for your students? All schools are probably teaching many of the information literacy skills found in this body of lessons. Usually, individual teachers will tackle the process of plugging the gaps in their curriculum when an issue or opportunity arises. A sixth grade teacher may see the need to review note taking, while a high school teacher needs to re-introduce Boolean operators and review Citing Sources. Eventually, schools and districts will attempt to make sure the skills covered in these lessons are integrated into the K-12 curriculum. As a teacher, you can begin by looking at the chart below to see which lessons are appropriate for the age and abilities of the students you teach.

Google Forms + iPads, iPods, and iPhones + Administrators via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/01/iphones-google-forms-and-walkthroughs.html

Just food for thought