Thinkfinity is the Verizon Foundation's free online professional learning community, providing access to over 60,000 educators and experts in curriculum enhancement, along with thousands of award-winning digital resources for K-12 - aligned to state standards and the common core.
Here, educators connect and collaborate through themed groups, blogs and discussions, sharing resources and best practices that support 21st century teaching and learning.
This website shares 7 Key Ingredients in the Successful 21st Century Classroom. The video that is shared is a look into the perspective of a student in a high school 21st Century Classroom.
Once the class settles in and things are rolling along, the steady hum gets louder when kids are excited or working together, then quieter again when they're working out problems on their individual little whiteboards (to be clear, these are not digital).
This website was created for teachers around the county to showcase their 21st Century lessons. The website also incorporates rubrics as a guide for teachers to understand what makes an ideal 21st century lesson.
Web 2.0 (or Web 2) is the popular term for advanced Internet technology and applications including blogs, wikis, RSS and social bookmarking. The two major components of Web 2.0 are the technological advances enabled by Ajax and other new applications such as RSS and Eclipse and the user empowerment that they support.