21st Century Skills: Teaching & Learning

After usability testing, 21st Century Skills: Teaching & Learning is open to the public. The website, 21st Century Skills: Teaching & Learning, went live yesterday.

Lainie McGann posted in her blog     21st Century Skills: Teaching & Learning 

 

With the increase of accountability tied to standardized testing and No Child Left Behind’s emphasis on basic skills and knowledge as well as the goal for all students to be technologically literate by the end of eighth grade, teachers are faced with the challenge of complying with legislation and preparing their students to succeed in the 21st century.

The purpose of this project is to create an accessible tool that educators can use to find lesson plans that address their grade level’s content standards as well as 21st century skills. What originally started as a database of lessons has evolved into a website for teaching and learning 21st century skills. This website will include information on 21st century skills, a database of lessons, methods for assessing 21st century skills, a bulletin board and additional resources for teachers.

My hope is that this website will become a place for educators to collaborate and contribute their successes.

Lainie congratulations on your new Web site! I will promote it among the teachers I work with and share it with the pre-service teachers I teach. Awesome job. This will be avaluable resource.

Comments

[Gene]

Thanks for posting the link to Lainie McGann's site. It helps provide some context that has helped me better understand your site. I hadn't really framed many of the issues I'm interested in as skills for a new century.

This graphic was particularly helpful to me.

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5779/803/1600/Picture%2011.jpg .

[Lainie McGann]

Sheryl,
Thanks for posting the link to 21st Century Skills: Teaching & Learning. This has been a great project to work on and I look forward to collaborating with others to make this web-based tool a powerful resource for educators. I will be adding a link to 21st Century Collaborative on the resources page of my website. This blog is an wonderful source of information!