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When assessment drives instruction, students learn more and become more confident, self-directed learners. Assessing Projects helps teachers create assessments that address 21st century skills and provides strategies to make assessment an integral part of their teaching and help students understand content more deeply, think at higher levels, and become self-directed learners.

This is a very good blog article that compares skills of the past to what are typically referred to as "21st century skills."

This site explains the importance of technology in the classroom and how new skills need to be learned to take full advantage of it.