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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

An online blog for those who use Blackboard to teach. This blog provides resources for educators using Web 2.0 technologies.

A presentation on Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom with ideas for using different tools in the classroom.

The purpose of this essay is to introduce the instructor to critical thinking and to suggest means of applying it in the classroom. As such, it is not a teaching document; it does not pause and repeat nor stimulate learning with examples and exercises. Rather, its purpose is to provide an overview of the field and to suggest a common terminology. A list of references is provided for those desiring more detailed study.