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As Professional Development providers, we must practice with our students (in this case the teachers are our students) what we preach

I like "Deeper Learning" as a way to convey both the acquisition of knowledge and the transference/application of knowledge along with developing skills employers find valuable -- collaboration, communications and critical thinking.

Today's educators need to be connected -- that means they need to embrace social media along with utilizing online resources -- designing ways to integrate smart phones and iPads, along with laptops.

...the choices we make about how to use time in school are often the enemy of quality or value. Our patterns in leading classrooms are so ingrained that we do not even realize when we are making poor choices."

Society has changed. We cannot adequately prepare students for the society that exists today or will exist tomorrow, if we continue to prepare them for the society that existed yesterday. In order to prepare students to play their role in the 21st century society we are a part of, a few things need to be considered when deciding how education will look in our schools and classrooms.

To build my own code literacy, I decided to take free classes through the online website Codecademy.com (3),

A leading voice in education for more than a decade, Ken Kay was the co-founder and President of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21).

It is no longer enough that we educate only to the standards of the traditional literacies. If students are to survive, let alone thrive, in the 21st-century culture of technology-driven automation, abundance and access to global labour markets, then independent thinking and its corollary, creative thinking, hold the highest currency.

The list consists of the 4 best videos on 21st century learning provided by Amy Erin Borovoy who has been providing tools and inspiration for educators through her work at Edutopia.org!