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The concept of 21st Learning has been around since the 1990s. There was a recognition that with the pace of technological change, the jobs of the 20th Century would be unrecognisable to those living in the 21st Century. We had to prepare our students for a future of great difference and uncertainty. As a result, we needed to move towards a more independent, skills based education system rather than the model we had that was based on content knowledge and specific skills for specific jobs. Well, we are into the second decade of the 21st Century and the question has to be asked - how well have we advanced in developing 21st Century Learners?

Nice to see that we do all of these things already! As the iPad is currently the 'class leader' in education, there are many educators who have found themselves with an iPad to 'see what it can do?' The challenge is to demonstrate enhanced learning, so here are ten suggestions that may help:

One of the most misunderstood terms in education is "classroom management," which is often seen as a synonym for discipline. Imagine asking the manager of a store to explain his job and he says, "My job is to discipline the customers." And when the same question is posed to the manager of a team, she says, "I discipline the players." Yet, discipline is the prevailing response of most educators when asked about classroom management.

Does the thought of making a positive impact on the future generation scare the pants off you? Are you looking to get by your evaluations with just enough credibility and success to avoid any repercussions or tough questions? Here are a few tips for you...

Great article by Marie Bjerede (@mbjerede) on why education should be more like WoW and Minecraft. 

Educational Flash web sites aside, the iPad is a great device for browsing the internet. At the heart of this is Apple's flagship browser, Safari. Overall, Safari is a capable browser on the iPad but there is some functionality missing from the app when compared to its big brother on Macs. Fortunately, iOS has enough tricks available for third party apps to fill in the gaps that Safari for iPad doesn't address. Here are three alternative browsers that I use regularly to perform tasks I think are necessary for educational use and general use that I can't do using Apple's default browser.

"there is most certainly an extraordinary array of options for videos which expand educators' understandings and inspire advances in 21st century learning."

One of the hardest thing with using the iPad in the classroom is finding the time to go through all of the apps in the iTunes Store listed under the education banner. We have started to list some of the apps we've found under each of the Key Learning Areas.

The 2011 Horizon report identified six new technologies that will affect teaching and learning in the K-12 education community over the next five years.  

How to use Google Reader - for educators

See PDF of Copyright for Educators

... the lecture is no longer the only way to transfer important information. "Ever since the Middle Ages, the primary vehicle for conveying information was the lecture," he said. "But this is the 21st century, and there are so many ways to convey information, it's not the necessity it once was." Students don't learn by listening, they learn by doing, 

Visual interactive display of the size and scale of cells -- with the starting point the "large" coffee bean (12 x 8 mm).....\nOne page of a broader educational website from the Univ of Utah, Genetic Science Learning Center -- other pages are definitely middle/secondary school (if not univ) level...\n<

Sugata Mitra's second TED talk (2010) in which he talks about how far he has taken his experiment.... children teaching children technology.... SOLEs (Self-Organizing Learning Environments)

Here is where early childhood education students will post their ideas for how to connect to, and extend, children's books.

Apply to be an ADE via this site.

An excellent overview of why/how educators should begin using CC material.  You should definitely check out this site!

Interesting to think how this relates to primary and secondary education.... not just tertiary..... "In an era when students can easily grab material online, including lectures by gifted speakers in every field, a learning environment that avoids courses completely-or seriously reshapes them-might produce a very effective new form of college. That was the provocative notion posed here recently by Randy Bass, executive director of Georgetown University's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, during the annual meeting of the Educause Learning Initiative. He pointed out that much of what students rate as the most valuable part of their learning experience at college these days takes place outside the traditional classroom, citing data from the National Survey of Student Engagement, an annual study based at Indiana University at Bloomington. Four of the eight "high-impact" learning activities identified by survey participants required no classroom time at all: internships, study-abroad programs, senior thesis or other "capstone" projects, or the mundane-sounding "undergraduate research," meaning working with faculty members on original research, much as graduate students do."

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