To be successful now and in the
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Sponsored by Cisco, Intel and Microsoft, ATC21S aims to help educators around the world enable students with the skills to succeed.

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Learn more: ATC21S related presentations

February 2, 2012Blog

Interested in learning more about ATC21S?  Here is a sampling of some of the public presentations and reports given on the ATC21S project in 2011:
Care, E., Griffin, P., Kankaanranta, M., & Ahonen, A. (September, 2011). Australian and Finnish students’ free responses while engaging in collaborative problem solving assessment tasks. Invited Paper to Symposium on Cross‐Cultural [...]

ATC21S team represented at the Pearson Global Research Conference 2012

February 1, 2012Blog, Events

On January 27-28 the 2012 Pearson Global Research Conference was held in Western Australia.  The theme of this year’s conference was the role of technology and assessment in system-wide improvement.  The conference aimed to foster discussions about how technologies can be used strategically to improve teaching and learning at broad, system-wide levels.  The ATC21S project [...]

ATC21S cited by Anthony Salcito in address at LWF 12

February 1, 2012Blog

Anthony Salcito, the Global Vice-President of Education at Microsoft, cited the ATC21S project in his address at the 2012 Learning Without Frontiers (LWF) conference, held in London on the 25th and 26th of January.  The LWF conference, which has been held annually since 2004, is geared towards exploring the ways in which new technologies on [...]

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