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"An innovative resource designed to cultivate 21st century fluencies,while fostering engagement and adventure in the learning experience. This resource is the collaborative effort of a group of experienced educators and entrepreneurs who have united to share their experience and ideas, and create a project geared toward making learning relevant to life in our new digital age. Our purpose is to develop exceptional resources to assist in transforming learning to be relevant to life in the 21st Century. At the core of this project are our Curriculum Integration Kits - engaging, challenge based learning modules designed to cultivate the essential 21st Century Fluencies within the context of the required curriculum."

Contents 1 Context 2 Improving data and research to create an evidence base 3 21st century school buildings and learning hubs 4 Training and professional development 5 Improving access to New Zealand content online 6 Development of 21st century skills 7 Equity issues 8 Improving device access 9 Ultra-Fast Broadband and the School Network Upgrade Programme 10 Network for Learning 11 Institutional arrangements for ICT and 21st century learning 12 Changes to legislation, regulation, and government agency operations 13 Minority views

Over time the learner has been the explorer of knowledge, its accumulator and skilled 'access-or'. In the 21st century challenges and demands are expanding and changing again. Our new society's environment is one of rapid communication, action and change, of intricate social activity and a huge potential for new knowledge. What are the models of the learner for this brave new world? How can higher education create these models and support the learners who aspire to them? This paper postulates four models of the learner of the future: * the collaborator: for whom networks of knowledge, skills and ideas are the source of learning * the free agent: utilising flexible, continuous, open-ended and life-long styles and systems of learning to the full * the wise analyser: able to gather, scrutinise and use evidence of effective activity and apply conclusions to new problems * the creative synthesiser: able to connect across themes and disciplines, cross-fertilise ideas, integrate disparate concepts and create new vision and practice. The paper describes an example of these kinds of learning and considers what they might imply for the development of learning in higher education in the coming century

RT @drtonybates: New blog post: Designing online learning for the 21st century http://t.co/AlhaRY7Q (via @TerryNeal) #elearning #future

21st Century Fluency Project A model of five different areas of fluency situated within the context of being a digital citizen. A model with potential but the definitions of the five fluencies - solution fluency, information fluency, media fluency, collaboration fluency, and creativity fluency - are fairly lightweight

Kim Cofino presentation 9on the 21stC learner.

"I use a version of the "garden method" in my classes at Duke, requiring each student to make at least two public contributions to knowledge, where they translate something they learned in the class to some online forum where others can make use of their learning and respond to it."

The view from the 'man' :) New report on mobile learning and another on trends.

An examination of 31st century skills and how they have changed for HE

"About 100 years ago, higher education restructured to meet the needs of the industrial age. It has changed little since, even as the internet has transformed life. Another revolution is needed, says Cathy Davidson, to modernise universities and prepare graduates for a 21st-century working environment"

"On 1st March 2012 John Seely Brown gave a keynote presentation at the DML (Digital Media and Learning) 2012 Conference in San Francisco, called Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Learner in the 21st Century.  You can watch the recording here, and you can read the transcript here. What does it mean to be a entrepreneurial learner? JSB tells us "This does not mean how to become an entrepreneur. This really means, how do you constantly look around you all the time  for new ways, new resources to learn new things? That's the sense of entrepreneur I'm talking about that now in the networked age almost gives us unlimited possibility.""

Understanding how networks work is an essential 21st century literacy.

More than a decade into the 21st century and we are still keeping learners and teachers prisoners of the analog past by enforcing outdated mandates that ban and block them from using the digital resources of their world. 

Teacher based but adaptable

"In January 2009, Jay Mathews of the Washington Post disparagingly labeled the call for new media literacy and 21st Century skills "the latest doomed pedagogical fad,"..."

This guide was written especially for educators, who want to teach 21st century skills, such as collaborating, communicating, and connecting, through digital storytelling. Free.

"Social media and online games have the potential to convey 21st century skills that aren't necessarily part of school curricula - things like time management, leadership, teamwork and creative problem solving that will prepare teens for success in college and beyond. Making the transition between a highly structured environment in high school to a self-driven, unstructured environment in college can prove a huge challenge for many kids. Educators spend a lot of time thinking about how to fix this problem. The solution doesn't lie solely with games, but a lot of the psychology that motivates teens to play games holds potential. We need to figure out how to tap in."

Stuff on presenting in a 21C sort of way