Think Ahead: What a difference a day makes. How do we create a dynamic 21st-century learning environment where today’s students can achieve and thrive? The Think Ahead event provided a day to explore, experience, and reflect on effective tools for 21st-century learning. The Apple digital learning environment is optimized for 21st-century learning by enabling collaboration, as well as content creation, distribution, and access, to maximize learning for today’s mobile lifestyle. Use the following resources to further explore creating and supporting a 21st-century learning environment.

The PBS Digital Learning Library is a public media system-wide repository of digital media learning objects, including videos, images, interactives, audios and documents. The PBS Digital Learning Library content will be easily searchable, tagged and correlated to state education standards. The content from the PBS Digital Learning Library will be accessible through digital services offered by local PBS stations.

The United States Department of Education reported recently that it's found some evidence to support the notion that blended learning is more effective than either face to face or online learning by themselves. Further, between online and face to face instruction, online is at least as good and may even have the advantage in terms of improving student achievement and potentially expanding the amount of time (and quality time) students spend learning.

Imagine a learning experience where students are thrust into the everyday hustle and bustle of a century or two ago.  Where they find themselves enslaved in an antebellum town, or caught up in a strike in a Massachusetts textile mill, or riding the rails in the Depression.  Where they’ll need to have all their wits about them to survive in these unfamiliar environments