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21st Century Learning

Resources for developing 21st Century Skills

• CulturallyTeaching.com: Create a blog that documents stories about education across cultures and helps educators become more cross-culturally effective.
  
  
• National Geographic's My Wonderful World: Creative Visions has helped to develop educational curricula for Mexico, the Philippines and South Africa to accompany the GlobalTribe series.
  
  
• Asia Society - AskAsia: AskAsia is a site of resources devoted to teachers and students that features lesson plans, current events and media about Asia for educators and students.
  
  
• Rock Our World: Rock Our World is a media collaboration where students from all seven continents come together to compose music, make movies and hold video conferences to learn more about one another.
  
  
• PBS Global Tribe: GlobalTribe is a new PBS series that combines the spirit of travel with a meaningful exploration of the global issues that affect us all.
  
  
• PBS and Peace Corps Global Café: This collaboration site between Peace Corps and PBS provides resources, lesson plans, letters and photographs from students around the world, and a forum for students across the globe to engage in discussion.
  
  
• Peace Corps World Wise Schools: World Wise Schools provides classroom resources and lesson plans based upon the overseas experiences of Peace Corps Volunteers around the world.
  
  
• EF and Apple Rethink. Global Awareness: With EF, the Apple Learning Interchange hosts a collection of lesson ideas, activities, galleries and conversations about Global Awareness.
  
  
• Heifer International: Heifer's education programs give teachers the resources to help students develop a passion for helping others by passing on the gift of knowledge about solutions to hunger and poverty.
  
  
• GlobalEd: Shows thousands of teachers ways to design their own curricula and ways to effectively employ different teaching strategies in the classroom.
  
  
• iEarn: iEarn is nonprofit global network made up of teachers and students from across the globe that engage in discussions with one another and work together on projects that fit their curriculum.
  
  
• Global Education Collaborative: GEC is a site that links educators and students to global projects happening across the world.
  
  
• International Studies in Schools: An innovative distance learning program that uses interactive video technology to connect schools and community groups with over 5,000 international students, scholars and specialists at the Indiana University campus.
  
  
• ePALS Classroom Exchange: Connecting students around the world with school-safe email, ePALS is the largest global education community of collaborative classrooms engaged in cross-cultural exchanges and project sharing.
  
  
• Exploring Humanitarian Law: EHL is dedicated to helping teachers introduce the basic principles of international humanitarian law to students in secondary schools.
  
  
• TakingITGlobal: TIGed is a toolset for teachers looking for an innovative way to introduce everything from low-tech solutions to online global collaborations with other classes thousands of miles away.
  
  
• United Nations Cyberschoolbus: The UN Cyberschoolbus provides lesson plans and project ideas on global issues that classrooms from around the world can work on cooperatively to learn about international issues and develop social responsiblity.
  
  
• Facing History and Ourselves: Facing History and Ourselves supports various education initiatives including humanities curriculum support and professional development opportunities.
  
  
• Roots & Shoots: Roots & Shoots helps groups plan community inspired service-learning projects that promote care and concern for animals, the environment and the human community.
  
  
• Global Issues That Affect Everyone: This site looks into issues that affect everyone equally and aims to show how most issues are interrelated.
  
  
• Global Schoolhouse: GSH is the original virtual meeting place where educators, students and parents can collaborate, interact, develop, publish and discover learning resources.
  
  
• One World Youth Project: This project links North American groups with others from around the world for the purpose of community service actions toward the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
  
  
• Worldmapper: Find hundreds of maps depicting data related to the world's population on this site.
  
  
• UNICEF - Voices of Youth: This site is for youths interested in human rights and development, and connects them with each other around the world.
  
  
• Primary Source: Primary Source offers a rich variety of professional development programs for K-12 educators. With the aim of connecting teachers together, they provide learning opportunities about cultures around the world.