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Bringing 21st Century Skills to the Science Classroom Using Tablet Technology Welcome to Teaching Science with tablets. We hope you will participate in using and sharing resources for using tablets and probeware in your science classroom for authentic student research and building 21st century skill.

21st century skills are the skills students need to succeed in work, school and life. They include: • Core subjects (as defined by NCLB) • 21st century content: global awareness, financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy, civic literacy and health and wellness awareness • Learning and thinking skills: critical thinking and problem solving skills, communications skills, creativity and innovation skills, collaboration skills, contextual learning skills and information and media literacy skills • Information and communications technology literacy • Life skills: leadership, ethics, accountability, adaptability, personal productivity, personal responsibility, people skills, self-direction and social responsibility (More information can be found about 21st Century Skills Map Page to the left)

Tablet technology linked with probe-ware allows student to collect data in the classroom and out-of-doors. Students use apps to do real-time collaboration with students in other classes whether they are local, national or international

Project-Based Learning and authentic research drive teaching science with tablet.