21st Century Learning, At All Levels | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
Tom Vander Ark is an education advocate, advisor, and author of Getting Smart: How Personal Digital Learning is Changing the World. Tom is Founder and Executive Editor of Getting Smart and a partner in Learn Capital.

 

 

 

Learning doesn't happen only in a lecture hall, a lab, or a classroom in the 21st century. Today's students must become better prepared for global competitiveness with technology-based literacy skills that include research, analysis of complex data from multiple resources, problem-solving and effective communication. Students deserve to access the best teachers any time, any place with flexible pacing to allow acceleration of their learning paths.

 

To meet unique individual needs, today's schools are combining a high tech, high touch approach centered around students -- offering excellent teaching that requires advanced communication and critical thinking skills.

 

Read more, a MUST:

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/on_innovation/2012/07/21st_century_learning_at_all_levels.html?cmp=SOC-SHR-FB