Assignment:
In your responses, ask a question about the 21st Century Professional Development framework with regard to professional learning communities and offer an additional resource for consideration that supports an alternative viewpoint.
1. Discuss how you could incorporate and implement the use of technology to create a blended professional learning community across districts within your state to share knowledge with fellow faculty on how a deeper understanding of subject matter can actually enhance problem solving, critical thinking, and other 21st-century skills.
2. Discuss how creating a professional learning community can increase the ways teachers seize opportunities for integrating 21st-century skills, tools, and teaching strategies into their classroom practice - and help them identify what activities they can replace or de-emphasize.