21st Century Learning (continued)

So, I shared my thoughts from the first posting on this topic with the bright, inteligent teachers in my graduate class. My query for them was how do you promote the development of skills/knowledge/dispositions necessary for 21st Century Learning among your students? Their answers are as follows:

Provide lots of opportunities for structured cooperative learning experiences-- and be sure to directly teach and assess social skills.
Encourage students to ask for help- ask them to hold up green, yellow, red cards demonstrating understanding.
Use flexible grouping so you can specialize the types and nature of learning tasks,
Time to reflect on their performance individually and within groups
Using 21st Century Pedagogies such as concept attainment, concept development, inquiry, etc.
Enabling students to do great tasks that motivate them,
Explain why skills/knowlege to learn is important and how it fits into their lives,
Giving students real-life problems to solve,
Break things into manageable pieces and model for them how to do this- use "to do" lists, create time limits
Provide proper encouragement during the learning process-- encourage practice, risk-taking and self-appraisal,
Use technology in the classroom,
Encourage and reward persistence, diligence and stick-to-itiveness,