21st Century Skills Coming to NAEP in 2012: A Preview

by Clay Burell · 2009-05-14 11:21:00 UTC
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Like it or not, 21st Century Skills and "tech literacy" will be on the National Assessment of Educational Programs (NAEP) tests starting in 2012. The folks at eSchool News have put together the following resources to give you an idea of what it means, how it will look, and how to prepare. So have a glimpse of the future of high-stakes testing, 21st Century American Style, on them:

And some free advice for teachers scared of having to "know" all of this technology: relax. Your best teachers, if only you'll use them, will be quite a large number of your students.

image by Pete Ashton

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