While researching resources for 21st century skills, I came upon a great website for both teachers and students. NeoK12 is useful to grades K-12 and integrates technology into multiple subject areas including science, history, and english. I chose to focus my search on the topic of magnetism since I will be implementing the instructional plan I created in a few weeks. This website offers online games and puzzles, video clips, and perhaps most impressive is their photo gallery that my students can use to create presentations.
For more general searches of 21st century skills education, teachers will find The Partnership for 21st Century Skills very useful. After going to Tools & Resources for Educators, the Exemplars link directs you to Route 21. This pages offers even more resources and lessons. I came upon an excellent blog listing 30 multimedia resources for teachers and students to incorporate more inquiry, collaboration, and problem solving.
Having such a wide range of technological resources to use in the classroom will help students become better prepared for their futures using 21st century skills. Going forward, the challenges will be the amount of time necessary for searching for the type of activity I would need and preparing for the event that technology unexpectedly does not work.
NeoK12 Is a good resource. I particularly like the videos. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills website was briefly shared with me by our IRT at the beginning of the year. I will be sure to add is site to my web sources. Thanks for the valuable information.
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