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The key features of 21st Century Pedagogy are:\n\n * building technological, information and media fluencies[Ian Jukes]\n * Developing thinking skills\n * making use of project based learning\n * using problem solving as a teaching tool\n * using 21st C assessments with timely, appropriate and detailed feedback and reflection\n * It is collaborative in nature and uses enabling and empowering technologies\n * It fosters Contextual learning bridging the disciplines and curriculum areas\n

The rise of online media has helped raise a new generation of college students who write far more, and in more-diverse forms, than their predecessors did. But the implications of the shift are hotly debated, both for the future of students' writing and for the college curriculum.\n\nSome scholars say that this new writing is more engaged and more connected to an audience, and that colleges should encourage students to bring lessons from that writing into the classroom. Others argue that tweets and blog posts enforce bad writing habits and have little relevance to the kind of sustained, focused argument that academic work demands.\n\nA new generation of longitudinal studies, which track large numbers of students over several years, is attempting to settle this argument. The "Stanford Study of Writing," a five-year study of the writing lives of Stanford students - including Mr. Otuteye - is probably the most extensive to date.

from Educators' eZine --> Introduction and Background:Bloom's TaxonomyIn the 1950's Benjamin Bloom developed his taxonomy of cognitive objectives, Bloom's