21st Century Skills

How did this lesson incorporate the "engaging strategies":  Create, Collaborate, Think Creatively, Communicate, Write to Communicate, Read to Learn, Question?

Finally, what impact has the changing nature of our students and our world had on what you do as a teacher? Has your work changed significantly in the past few years? Is your classroom significantly different from the classrooms that you spent time in as a student? How?

Just what skills do our students need to master in order to be effective and efficient learners? Are the skills that students need to master today significantly different than the skills that students needed to master in the past?

How do today's students differ from students in previous generations? What words best describe today's students? How are those words different from the words that would have best described students from previous generations? Do today's students have strengths that previous generations didn't have? How about weakness?