Respond to at least two peers. 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. Greetings Everyone, I feel that the use of technology is crucial for 21st-century educators. With that being said, if we want our learners to be successful, then according to the Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21) we have to prepare learners for 21st-century learning and innovation skills. According to P21 Learning and innovation skills increasingly are being recognized as those that separate students who are prepared for a more and more complex life and work environments in the 21st century, and those who are not. A focus on creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration is vital in preparing learners for the future.( Framework for 21st Century Learning Definitions, 2019). If we looking to teach our learners 21st-century skills, we have to be willing to practice them ourselves. According to Burnaford and Brown, education and educational leadership in the 21st century is collaborative, shared, and team-oriented (Burnaford, & Brown, 2014). Which leads me to this, the only way fo
r others to know what is going on in our classrooms is for us to share it with others. The collaboration we do with other teachers can be done through our professional learning community where we share success and failures. This sharing helps us to think critically, and problem solve with each other in order for us to find ways to improve our teaching practices/techniques. Sharing can also be done digitally through the use of blogs, shared videos, shared lessons or materials. One school district who has been hugely successful with their approach of 21st-century teaching and collaboration is the Vail School District here in Arizona. This school district developed a way for educators to share their work with educators from all over the district and now to educators from other states through the use of their network of collaboration called Beyond Textbooks (What is BT?, 2019). References: Burnaford, G., & Brown, T. (2014).?Teaching and learning in 21st century learning environments: A reader. Retrieved from Framework for 21st Century Learning Definitions. (2019). Retrieved from http://www.battelleforkids.org/learning-hub/learning-hub-item/framework-for-21st-century-learning-definitions What is BT? (2019, March 25). Retrieved from https://www.beyondtextbooks.org/What_is_BT