21st Century Learning and Teaching

By Thom Markham Once they get to the working world, most students, in almost any job, will collaborate as a member of a team. And every student needs to be prepared for that environment — partly for employment opportunity, but mainly because the deeply embedded mental model of learning and creating as an individual process is obsolete.

===> Collaboration has become the chief way in which things are done. Powerful collaboration is driven by incisive communication—and out of that process come the very best expressions of innovation, creativity, and critical inquiry. <===

"What better way to model learning and pedagogy than to actually teach?" This quote comes from an excellent article written in 2010 by Chris Wejr, a school principal in British Columbia and key mem...