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Resources & Links to 21st Century Learning:
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 * ====== [|Partnership for 21st Century] http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/ The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is the leading advocacy organization focused on infusing 21st century skills into education. The site provides a set of comprehensive tools to help integrate 21st century skills into learning.======

[|Route 21] http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21/ A one-stop-shop for 21st century skills-related information, resources and community tools.

[|ICT Literacy Maps] - the Partnership for 21st Century Skills developed a series of ICT Literacy Maps illustrating the intersection between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy and core academic subjects including geography, math, English, and science. http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/images/stories/matrices/ictmap_english.pdf

http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/images/stories/matrices/ICTmap_ss.pdf
[|ICT Skills Maps] - the Partnership for 21st Century Skills developed a series of Skills Maps for core academic subjects including geography, social studies, and science. http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/documents/21stcskillsmap_geog.pdf

[|21st Century Information Fluency Project] http://21cif.com/ the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy provides tutorials,wizard tools and resources to help students with digital information fluency.  [|Center for Media Literacy] - http://www.medialit.org/ information on 21st Century media literacy with lesson plans and resources to use in the classroom.

[|Creativity Web] http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/Creative/index2.html====== Links to resources for creativity

[|MIT Open Courseware] http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm IT offers all course materials available for free

[|Google for Educators] http://www.google.com/educators/index.html 21st century web 2.0 tools

[|4Teachers - Teacher Tools] - http://www.4teachers.org/tools/ A variety of tools and resources for students and teacher including assessment and scaffolding tools [|Assessment of 21st Century Skills] - http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/images/stories/otherdocs/Assessment_Landscape.pdf A pre publication draft document about assessment of 21st century skills in 2005 from the Partnership for 21st Century

[|21st Century PowerPoint Presentation Slides handout] - http://www.amphi.com/departments/technology/files/76FA6DD3C6084D61B334C93C04A780B4.pdf The slides from the PowerPoint presentation in PDF format.

[|Promoting 21st Century Skills] - http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/item.php?itemID=9771 Ken Kay's presentation to the Florida Educational Technology Conference, January 2007.  [|Critical and Creative Thinking - Bloom's Taxonomy] http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic69.htm Discussion of Bloom's taxonomy and critical thinking, creativity Expert on creativity and innovation Technorati index on creativity. Interactive map of the creative process. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A place to explore creativity for yourself and your child. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Creativity Portal features expert creativity, business, coaching, and writing articles, innovative art and craft projects, fun printables, prompts and tools, and free inspirational learning resources for every stage of the creative life. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">December 2004 article about creativity: "These days, there's hardly a mission statement that doesn't herald it, or a CEO who doesn't laud it. And yet despite all of the attention that business creativity has won over the past few years, maddeningly little is known about day-to-day innovation in the workplace. Where do breakthrough ideas come from? What kind of work environment allows them to flourish? What can leaders do to sustain the stimulants to creativity -- and break through the barriers?" <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"> ||
 * [|Sir Ken Robinson website] http://www.sirkenrobinson.com/**
 * [|Creativity: See what people are saying right now on Technorati] http://technorati.com/tag/Creativity**
 * [|Business Creativity & Innovation] http://www.m1creativity.com/tube/tube.htm**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
 * [|PBS Parents . Creativity | PBS] http://www.pbs.org/parents/creativity/**
 * [|Creativity Portal - Exploring Creative Thinking Innovation Art Crafts Writing Humor] http://www.creativity-portal.com/**
 * [|The 6 Myths Of Creativity] http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/89/creativity.html**