APPENDIX A
Resources
To help illustrate and support the main themes of this book, there are a number of resources you may find helpful in your travels down the road to 21st century learning.
21st Century Skills Example Videos DVD
The video DVD included at the back of this book contains living examples of classrooms and educational programs that are successfully developing 21st century skills and knowledge.
These video case studies were selected to highlight how teachers and students are tackling real-world problems, learning rigorous content knowledge, and building their proficiency in 21st century skills, all through engaging and challenging learning projects.
The DVD includes eight documentary studies:
1. The California Propositions Public Services Announcement Project from the Metropolitan Arts and Technology High School, an Envision school in San Francisco, California. (Courtesy of the Pearson Foundation.)
a. Overview of the project
b. Skill-by-skill descriptions
2. 21st Century Skills Assessment from the Napa New Technology High School, a New Technology school in Napa, California. (Courtesy of the Pearson Foundation.)
3. The Culture of 21st Century Skills from High Tech High, one of the High Tech High schools in San Diego, California. (Courtesy of the Pearson Foundation.)
4. The Science Lab (Biology) Project from the School of the Future, a Coalition of Essential Schools member school in New York City. (Courtesy of the Coalition of Essential Schools.)
5. The SARS Project from the ThinkQuest Program, with students from Egypt, Malaysia, Holland, and the United States. (Courtesy of the Oracle Education Foundation.)
6. The Project Learning Institute and Success Project from St. Albans School in West Virginia. (Courtesy of the Oracle Education Foundation.)
7. Harry’s Story from Kumasi, Ghana. (Courtesy of the Oracle Education Foundation.)
8. The Hydrology Project from Catalina Foothills High School in Tucson, Arizona. (Courtesy of the Pearson Foundation.)
These video case studies can also be accessed from this book’s Web site—www.21stcenturyskillsbook.com—and from their respective organization Web sites:
• The Pearson Foundation: www.pearsonfoundation.org
• The Oracle Education Foundation: www.oraclefoundation.org
• The Coalition of Essential Schools: www.essentialschools.org
The complete version of the School of the Future video documentary plus other videos in the CES Essential Visions series that showcase the learning programs and principles of a variety of Coalition schools can be ordered directly from CES at www.essentialschools.org/pub/ces_docs/resources/essentialvisions.html.
Resources from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills
A rich collection of the work of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills can be found on the P21 Web site—www.21stcenturyskills.org—including detailed explanations and white papers on the skills and educational supports in the P21 framework, research studies, publications and policy reports, the results of national surveys, and a description of the work going on in a number of U.S. states to integrate 21st century skills into the fabric of everyday learning.
A special repository of resources, called “Route 21,” provides a one-stop shop for 21 st century skills-related information, resources, and community tools; it is available at www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21.
You are encouraged to rate the resources you use in Route 21 and to add new resources you find useful in teaching, learning, and developing 21st century skills. The goal is for Route 21 to be a universal collection of the most useful and effective resources available on 21st century learning.
Selected Online Resources
The following are online resources the authors have found informative and useful in their work on 21st century learning. This list is not intended to be exhaustive—it is merely a selection of organizations and programs the authors have found helpful in moving aspects of the 21st century skills movement forward.
Chapter Two—The Perfect Learning Storm: Four Converging Forces
A number of high-tech corporations are making substantial philanthropic investments in global programs to attract students to technical fields and to train and certify them in technical skills, building some of the essential knowledge work skills needed in the 21st century.
These so-called academy programs provide teachers, professors, and technical institute staff the training, technology tools, and curricular resources to bring their students up to certification-level competence in a variety of technical and business fields.
Three notable examples of these academy programs:
• The Cisco Networking Academy—www.cisco.com/web/learning/netacad/index.html
• The Oracle Academy—http://academy.oracle.com/
• The Microsoft IT Academy—www.microsoft.com/education/msitacademy/default.mspx
Chapter Three—Learning and Innovation Skills
One useful online guide to resources that develop critical thinking and problem solving can be found at the Foundation for Critical Thinking—www.criticalthinking.org.
There are a wealth of online resources for problem- and project-based learning that build skill in problem solving and critical thinking. Here are a few we find most helpful:
• The Illinois Math and Science Academy’s Problem Based Learning Network (PBL Net)—http://pbln.imsa.edu/
• The University of Delaware’s Problem-Based Learning resources and clearinghouse—www.udel.edu/pbl/
• The George Lucas Educational Foundation’s Edutopia resources on project learning—www.edutopia.org/project-learning
• The Buck Foundation’s project-based learning resource collection called PBL-Online—www.pbl-online.org/
Chapter Four—Digital Literacy Skills
Information Literacy Among a wealth of information literacy sources, one stands out as particularly informative and useful—the collection of online resources from the American Association of School Librarians—www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/index.cfm.
These standards for 21st century learners and the accompanying resource materials clearly outline the skills needed to be an information-literate student, teacher, and librarian in our times.
Media Literacy There are a number of helpful media literacy online resources. We’ve found these particularly useful:
• The Center for Media Literacy—www.medialit.org
• The Media Channel, a global community of over a thousand media education organizations—www.mediachannel.org
• The Media Clearinghouse—http://medialit.med.sc.edu
• Common Sense Media—http://commonsensemedia.org/educators
ICT Literacy The following organizations, most based in the United States but have an international presence, work toward the effective application of information and communication technologies in all aspects of education:
• The International Society for Technology in Education—www.iste.org/
• The Consortium for School Networking—www.cosn.org/
• The Association for Educational Communications and Technology—www.aect.org/default.asp
• Educause, an organization promoting technology integration in higher education—www.educause.edu/
• The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has a sector focused on ICT literacy for teachers—http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22997&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
One particularly strong U.S. organization that has produced a series of exemplary white papers called “Class of 2020—Action Plan for Education,” which may be useful for other countries, can be found at the State Education Technology Directors Association Web site—www.setda.org/web/guest/2020.
Chapter Five—Career and Life Skills
Social and Cross-Cultural Interaction An important resource for developing pro-social skills is the organization Educators for Social Responsibility—http://esrnational.org.
The Asia Society—http://asiasociety.org—has a wealth of resources on international and cross-cultural education.
Productivity and Accountability In addition to the many programs and courses for new and in-service teachers at education colleges around the world, a number of corporations and foundations are also investing in the professional development of primary and secondary teachers. Many of these programs provide practicing teachers the training to integrate both technology tools and 21st century skills into their teaching methods.
Here are a few prominent examples of these teacher development programs:
• The Intel Teach program—www.intel.com/education/teach/
• Microsoft’s Partners in Learning program—www.microsoft.com/education/pil/partnersInLearning.aspx
• Oracle Education Foundation’s Professional Development programs—www.thinkquest.org/pls/html/think.help?id=54610
• Apple’s Professional Development program—www.apple.com/education/leaders-administrators/professional-development.html
• The Pearson Foundation’s Digital Arts Alliance programs—www.pearsonfoundation.org/pg4.0.html
• The Buck Institute’s Project Based Learning Academies—www.bie.org/index.php/site/PBL/professional_development/#academy
Leadership and Responsibility One example of the many programs that help students develop their leadership and responsibility skills—in this case in an international context—is the Model UN program, where students simulate United Nations council meetings to resolve an international crisis—see www.nmun.org/.
Chapter Eight—Retooling Schooling
Support Systems An international organization that is pioneering large-scale assessments of some of the 21st century skills is the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)—www.pisa.oecd.org/pages/0,2987,en_32252351_32235731_1_1_1_1_1,00.html.
From Skills to Expertise: Future Learning Frameworks The vision of “whole learning for the whole child” has been well developed by the ASCD organization and its global networks and affiliates. Information about the Whole Child initiative can be found at www.ascd.org/programs/The_Whole_Child/The_Whole_Child.aspx/.
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