People
in the 21st century live in a technology- and media-suffused environment,
marked by access to an abundance of information, rapid changes in technology
tools, and the ability to collaborate and make individual contributions on an
unprecedented scale. To be effective in the 21st century, citizens and workers
must be able to exhibit a range of functional and critical thinking skills
related to information, media and technology.
—Partnership
for 21st Century Skills
(http://www.21stcenturyskills.org)
Collaborative
tools for learning in the connected classroom are important since they aid in
collaboration in the classroom and across borders. These tools may be either synchronous tools
(allowing people to work together in real-time) or asynchronous tools (which
facilitate work over longer time frames, where each member of a team may
contribute at different times). Tools
can be used for authoring such as wiki and google doc and for brainstorming
(google doc).
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