Part I - Essential Question  What is 21st Century Teaching and Learning? The framework built around 21st century learning is made up of different parts working together. These parts consist of core subjects and 21st century themes, learning and innovation skills, information, media, and technology skills, and life and career skills. Referring back to Bloom’s Taxonomy, students start at remembering information and start to demonstrate their full understanding of a center topic when the students are able to create something with the understanding of a certain topic and/or concept. To do this in today’s fast developing technological world and workplace students have to develop different skills to support their learning through common core standards that are intivate for the students. According to the text, this is done by better align college and work expectations in the K-12 standards, demonstrating an “increased awareness that K-12 experiences are important in workforce development, em

Introduction Video I used both Pic Collage and Animoto to create my introduction post. I added stickers on my images to describe a little more about me through Pic Collage. The peach on the last image was meant to stand for "Georgia Peach." These are both great for students to use in the classroom because they can edit videos and add text to videos to work on spelling. The students can share images based on a certain concept or retelling a story by putting the images in order. Students can also use technology when they are learning to use their words in speaking publicly. I know I have a couple first graders this year who would love to express themselves through technology instead of their own words when talking publicly.  I love it because it gives students the opportunity to add stickers and texts to their images and/or videos. I let students record themselves retelling stories or solving math equations by telling the steps to video and then let them decorate their images