home

== = = = = = = //**Welcome to our Wiki !!!**//

//**21st Century Collaborative Learning Beyond Borders Project**//

 We share Secretary Duncan and the Obama administration’s recognition of the critical importance of a new vision of 21st Century Education System (see //Notes//)**,** and their recent call of educating our students for 21st Century Skills; and in response, we designed a collaborative project across three geographic locations from New York, to North Carolina, and Colorado; incorporating the very skills and vision in the advocacy.

__Overarching Objectives of the collaboration:__

 *  To provide the students the opportunity to acquire knowledge of the Chinese language and culture via performance-based activities on thematic units of the Lunar New Year such as the Twelve Zodiac Animals, Dragon Dance, Firecrackers, and traditions to achieve the following high order of learning:- **

** __A. 3 R’s in learning:__ **

 *  1. Reading **
 *  2. wRiting **
 *  3. aRithmatic **

**__B. 4 C’s in 21st Century Learning skills:__ **

 *  1. Critical Thinking **
 *  2. Collaboration **
 *  3. Creativity **
 *  4. Communication **

//Notes//: ====Digital Transformation in Education ~ //Arne Duncan//, U.S. Secretary of Education==== ====Remarks at Foreign Language Summit ~ //Arne Duncan//, U.S. Secretary of Education====