21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our times

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Powerful Learning

PROVEN PRACTICES, RESEARCHED RESULTS

 

 

 

 

Learning is a lifelong journey, and on most journeys it is important to have a destination in mind and a reliable means of transport to get there. The next sidebar provides one example of a classroom on the road to 21st century learning.

During the course of this classroom project, many of the features of a 21st century learning balance outlined earlier in this book were demonstrated—rigorous science content learned through a hands-on, collaborative project approach; a real-world problem and challenge that motivated individual and team learning; both a student-centered and teacher-guided approach to learning; and others.

A video of the class’s science project, Bacterial Transformation ...