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Life in the 21st century provides a whole-new world of opportunities for self-directed, passion-driven, personalized learning.  Educators who are ready to move on from teaching the way they were taught, and administrators who will let them, can begin supporting students using tools and strategies available to the 21st century learner. 

I nod in agreement with many of these ideas. Yes, we are living in an intensely stimulating world. Yes, students must own their own learning. Yes, learning is more than recall. Yes, we must make real-world links. Yes, yes, yes! But how, how, how in class sizes that are upward of 27 students? How can I stay current and interesting and relevant? How do I engage this new breed of techno-savvy, overstimulated youngsters who are bored to distraction in school? This is what I think about in August. Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/21st+century+classroom+daunting+place/5315656/story.html#ixzz1WQz26soY

The Framework presents a holistic view of 21st century teaching and learning that combines a discrete focus on 21st century student outcomes(a blending of specific skills, content knowledge, expertise and literacies) with innovative support systems to help students master the multi-dimensional abilities required of them in the 21st century

Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change: The 21st century is a world in constant change. In A New Culture of Learning, Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown pursue an understanding of how the forces of change, and emerging waves of interest associated with these forces, inspire and invite us to imagine a future of learning that is as powerful as it is optimistic. Our understanding of what constitutes "a new culture of learning" is based on several basic assumptions about the world and how learning occurs:

"In Intelligence Reframed Howard Gardner contends that "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our understanding of important questions, topics, and themes." Today's readers become literate by learning to read the words and symbols in today's world and its antecedents. They analyze, compare, evaluate and interpret multiple representations from a variety of disciplines and subjects, including texts, photographs, artwork, and data. They learn to choose and modify their own communication based on the rhetorical situation. Point of view is created by the reader, the audience and the medium."

Great conference for learning ways to incorporate a 21st century learning environment. And of course there's technology! :)

ICT Literacy Map for Math

ICT Literacy map for Geography

Learning Skills for Information and Commmmunicication

Research base of Education for the 21st Century

ACOT2 has identified six design principles for the 21st century high school: ACOT2 and the Challenge for American Education. Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow-Today (ACOT²)

ICT Literacy Map for Science

Our 7 Steps for Education Leaders is the foundation for this work.

"Blended high schools incorporate multiple modes of learning to prepare students for college and careers. Blended learning is a shift of instructional responsibility for at least a portion of the day to an online environment to boost learning, staffing, and or facilities productivity."

"We are complementing Salman's ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World. "

"At King Middle School and Casco Bay High School, in Portland, Maine, every student works in a widely hailed project-learning method called expeditionary learning. Discover what your school can learn."

"We all know that students don't learn at the same pace. And everyone jokes about the broken "sage on the stage" classroom model. These teachers are doing something about it. "

" The social bookmarking web site Diigo has many features, other than simply collecting and tagging web addressess. Diigo offers a wide variety of tools for teachers and students in the K-12 classroom. Diigo is a powerful Web 2.0 application and social networking web site, as it empowers users to save, categorize and annotate information all over the Internet and share it with others Diigo users and on other social networks."