Redefining Education in the Twenty-first Century: Shaping Collaborative Learning in the Age of Information

Redefining Education in the Twenty-First Century explores issues, trends, and practical ideas for teaching and learning in a new era. The book provides specific classroom activities and connects them to recent pedagogical developments that reach across the curriculum. It builds on our expanding knowledge of what works in classrooms and suggests how new approaches to teaching and learning can transform our schools. Ideas and activities for standards-based active learning, collaborative inquiry, and communications technology are included. This book includes topic-specific subjects such as creating the educational future; evolving trends of thinking and learning; shared responsibility in the cooperative classroom; integrated performance assessments in the elementary and middle school classroom; language arts in a new era; a vision for mathematics; scientific literacy; informed encounters with the arts; and future implications in educating for social responsibility. The comprehensiveness and detailed presentation of this book will deepen the collective conversation, challenge thinking, and give up-to-date tools that may be used today.