21st Century: Annotated Bibliography

The 21st century was accompanied by an exciting and dramatic technological revolution. We live in a media saturated, globalised, complex and diverse society where our students face many environmental and social challenges such as global warming, overpopulation, poverty and famine. New technology has provided unlimited possibilities for new developments and discoveries in communication, health, environmental stability and restoration, medical advances and space exploration. 21st century education needs to have a curriculum and pedagogy that allows students access to new possibilities and an understanding of how to solve these problems. Skills, learnt through an integrated, interdisciplinary and project based curriculum, include being able to…show more content…
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