Introduction
Ideas about 21st century skills, literacy, learners, and schools is commonplace in educational literature today, yet the implementation of these ideas remain unrealized. Today's learners have access to an unprecedented amount of digital information and are able to publish works to audiences of millions with one mouse click. However, by and large, the educational structures they are in have remained largely unchanged since the 1950's. It's time that we reexamine what we're doing and how we can leverage technology to better equip our students for life in the digital age.

First and foremost, this course is centered around learning. Applying various technology-based learning applications to improve teaching practices, engage students in authentic learning experiences, and prepare students successfully for life in the 21st century will be the emphasis.

During this course, we will try to find our path toward answering this, central question:
What is our role as educators in a world with ubiquitous access to an exponentially-increasing body of knowledge and an rapidly-shifting set of priorities?

Enduring Understandings
•Compelling communication, creativity and innovation, effective collaboration, information literacy, critical thinking and problem solving, and adaptability are essential life skills.
•Professional educators and the business of education must be responsive to the changing landscape
•Authentic activities are the best way to build capacity toward implementing new ways of teaching and learning.
•Reflective learning allows us to articulate our thought process .
•Personal learning networks allow us to have professional conversations not limited by place or time.
•Integration means that technology catalyzes the 21st century learning model and is leveraged in a way where it becomes part of the background and as ubiquitous as the air we breathe.

Essential Questions
• Why is our current education paradigm no longer adequate for our student's future?
• What capacities are important for our students to develop?
• Where am I as a professional educator and learner, where are our students, and where is our school in terms of essential skills/literacy/structures to support learning?
• How does technology-infused education help facilitate the "new learning" and what challenges does it bring?
• What structures need to change so that technology transforms learning rather than "fitting" technology in to what we're already doing?
• How do we apply technology using a consistent pedagocial approach given varying levels of skill, access, and desire to integrate ICT?

The Seven Steps
Step 1: Different Education for a Different World
Step 2: The World Is at Your Fingertips
Step 3: There Is No 'I' in We, World, and Success
Step 4: Work and Learn Smarter, Not Harder
Step 5: Technology and a Whole Brain Approach
Step 6: Cultivating Habits of the Mind
Step 7: Bringing It All Together