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21st Century Learning Skills

21st Century Learning Skills and iEARN

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a unique alliance of education, business and government leaders working to fully address the education needs and challenges of work and life in the 21st century. (members: AOLTW Foundation, Apple Computer, Inc., Cable in the Classroom, Cisco Systems, Inc, Dell Computer Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, National Education Association, SAP. Key partners: US Department of Education, Appalachian Technology in Education Consortium). Download their Learning for the 21st Century Report, feauting iEARN as a resource for Global Awareness in a 21st Century Context.

Teachers' Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet, created by iEARN-USA for the US Department of Education.

Additional References:

Armstrong, Sara. "Rural Washington Students Connect With The World." Edutopia. A Publication of the George Lucas Educational Foundation. June 6, 2002.

Branzberg, Jeffrey. Learning on a Global Scale. Technology and Learning Magazine. November 15, 2002.

Faustova, Galina, "New Areas of Motivation in Teaching Second-Language Writing," techlearning.com, October 1, 2001.

Gordon, David (Ed.). Better Teaching and Learning in the Digital Classroom (2003). Harvard Education Publishing Group: Cambridge. (including Global Education for Today's World: Creating Hope with Online Learning Communities Kristi Rennebohm Franz and Edwin Gragert)

Fun Links:

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