This document provides a long list of resources for teaching 21st century skills. It includes links to websites focused on topics like global awareness, economic literacy, civic literacy, health literacy, environmental literacy, creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, information literacy, and ICT literacy. It also lists resources for integrating technology into teaching, promoting life skills like productivity and social skills, and developing flexibility and accountability in students.

1. 21st century Feb 11 This Prezi is public: http://prezi.com/ll0bgphvzhga/

2. 21st-Century Skills Resources 21st Century Partnership Framework: http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php 21st Century ICT Maps http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=33 Apple’s Classroom of Tomorrow, Today http://ali.apple.com/acot2/ Curriculum 21 (edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs) http://www.ascd.org/Publications/Authors/Heidi_Hayes_Jacobs.aspx

3. Introduction & Rationale

4. “Changing World” Stats Ian Jukes’ Committed Sardines Blog http://www.committedsardine.com/handouts.cfm “ Learn to Change, Change to Learn” video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHiby3m_RyM PBS Frontline’s Digital Nation http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/?utm_campaign=viewpage&utm_medium=grid&utm_source=grid Edutopia http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation

5. 21st century themes

6. Global Awareness Stanford Institute of Design K12 http://www.stanford.edu/group/dschool/k12/ Asia Society http://www.asiasociety.org/ I-Earn http: //iearn .org/ Taking It Global http://www.tigweb.org/ Care http://www.care.org/index.asp ? http://www.charitywater.org/

7. Economic & Financial Literacy The Girl Effect http://www.girleffect.org/#/home/ Kiva http://www.kiva.org/ Consumer Jungle http://www.consumerjungle.org/ Edutopia http://www.edutopia.org/financial-literacy-introduction Global Stock Market Simulation http://www.globalstockchallenge.com/about.php

8. Civic Literacy Time Magazine “Call to Service” http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1657256_1657317_1657570,00.html Digital Citizenship http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/ Learning To Give http://learningtogive.org/ Circle http://www.civicyouth.org/

9. Health Literacy Focused Fitness http://www.focusedfitness.org/ Edutopia Health articles & video http://www.edutopia.org/exercise-fitness-brain-benefits-learning & http://www.edutopia.org/edible-schoolyard-video Online P.E. http://thejournal.com/articles/2010/01/08/virtual-pe-no-sweat.aspx

10. Environmental Literacy Siemens “We Can Change The World” Contest http://siemens.discoveryeducation.com/ NBC’s iCUE http://www.icue.com/ (plus US History, AP Language & AP Gov) Environmental Literacy Council http://www.enviroliteracy.org/

12. Creativity & Innovation “ Ted Talks” App http://www.ted.com/ Sir Ken Robinson’s Ed site http://www.sirkenrobinson.com/ Annenberg Media’s Art classes http://www.learner.org/ Daniel Pink (A Whole New Mind) Blog http://www.danpink.com/ Wordle (creating speech clouds) http://www.wordle.net/ TEDtalks are a must!!!

14. Critical Thinking Edutopia’s look at “Project Learning” http://www.edutopia.org/project-learning (all the videos are also found at “Beyond Campus” Itunes store under iTunesUt “ 10 Concepts Introduction” to any course is from November Learning http://novemberlearning.com/ Critical Thinking Community (posters & questions & videos are online at their site & youtube): http://www.criticalthinking.org/ IDE (paid service for Project-based activities) http://www.idecorp.com/

16. Communication Prezi presentations http://prezi.com/ Video conferencing (1:1 skype; more than 1:1 use oovoo or palbee) http://www.oovoo.com/ http://www.skype.com/ http://www.palbee.com/index.aspx Online presentation tools (a la PowerPoint) that allow “cloud” collaboration: http://www.zoho.com/ , http://www.slideshare.net & google presentation at http://docs.google.com

17. Collaboration Examples of websites where students actively contribute and have the power to add/edit content: Ning social networks ( www.ning.com ), wikis ( www.wikispaces.com ), and Google Sites and/or Zoho Full 21st-Century Maps (English) http://21ctlearning.pbworks.com/f/21st_century_skills_english_map.pdf & http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/documents/ss_map.pdf (social studies)

19. Information Literacy Boolean sites & Google examples come from http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ (specifically from his “Beyond Google” guide); 3 examples were Google Related Searches, Timeline & Wonder Wheel “ In Plain English” vids (web 2.0 examples) can be found on YouTube or the Common Craft website http://www.commoncraft.com/

20. All sites are linked from my social bookmarking page (especially check out the Look Sharp program): http://delicious.com/mrsanchez/media_literacy

22. ICT Literacy ICT Literacy Maps (including math, science, geography, English & SS) http://21stcenturyskills.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=33 Create your own video tutorial w/out camera: Jings! (Or have students create them for difficult concepts) http://www.jingproject.com/

23. ICT Literacy ICT Literacy Maps (including math, science, geography, English & SS) http://21stcenturyskills.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=33 Create your own video tutorial w/out camera: Jings! (Or have students create them for difficult concepts) http://www.jingproject.com/

24. ICT Literacy ICT Literacy Maps (including math, science, geography, English & SS) http://21stcenturyskills.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=33 Create your own video tutorial w/out camera: Jings! (Or have students create them for difficult concepts) http://www.jingproject.com/

25. ICT Literacy Edutopia’s tech site http://www.edutopia.org/tech-integration Check out each & every MIT class online (for free) on MIT OpenCourseWare and other virtual courses on Itunes U (plus museums at their “Beyond Campus”)

27. Life Skills: Productivity & Accountability Online assignments such as blogging or VOICETHREAD ( http://voicethread.com/ ) force students to do their best, especially since their work is “public” among peers

28. Social & Cross-Cultural Skills To promote perspective consciousness, all students k-12 read versions of the same story over the summer ( Three Cups of Tea ) It became a community read for our two towns

29. Life Skills Reads For self-direction, see Daniel Pink’s Drive (animated preview at www.danpink.com ) For social skills, see the empathy chapter in Howard Gardner’s new Five Minds for the Future (a great book!)

30. Flexibility & Accountability Cloud Institute’s Mission: We aim to “ensure the viability of sustainable communities by leveraging changes in K-12 school systems to prepare young people for the shift toward a sustainable future. We monitor the evolving thinking and skills of the most important champions of sustainability, and transform them into educational materials and a pedagogical system that inspires young people to think about the world, their relationships to it, and their ability to influence it in an entirely new way.” http://www.sustainabilityed.org/