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Team for the 21st century

The aims of this project was to overcome the gap between school and life beyond school walls. Through project we wanted that our students experience some real life situations such as a job application, and develop and test the necessary life and career skills. A quality life and work in the twenty-first century requires much more than mastering the skills of thinking and the adoption of necessary knowledge. The development of technology, rapid changes, and everything else that carries the digital age requires from student (and school systems) to seriously pay attention of development of life and career skills. Most students in Serbia think that school is boring, and that learning is difficult. They often learn only what they have to, obtaining knowledge by reading from the textbooks and listening to teachers’ lectures, as the only resources. In order to prepare students for what they can expect after high school, that is, for most of them, finding a job, we choose the topic of career guidance. In order to reduce the reproduction of what has student learned and to encourage students involvement, we ventured into a project that has involved a variety of activities on the Internet, within Second Life, Moodle and web conferencing. The most important reason for the selection of the methods we used (game based learning , immersed learning) was to encourage student cooperation , training for important decisions, take responsibility for their own work, presenting themselves and their achievements, innovative thinking and the development of media products that will benefit others.