As you have read about the 21st century skills, you may have wondered how you would ever find the time to introduce new collaborative projects and still "cover all the content" required by your curriculum. In the past few years, the flipped classroom model has become very popular as a means of addressing this dilemma and many other benefits have been described as well.
The first two videos below are short and introductory. The third video is longer and thus provides more details and will answer some of your questions about this model of organizing learning.
Sams, A. (2012) Teaching for Tomorrow: Flipped Learning. Duration 2:53.
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Shepherd, N. (2012) Flipped Classroom (TEDx) Duration 6:17.
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Sams, A. and Bergmann, J. (2012) Flipped Class 101. Duration 42:25.
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Hamdan, N et. al. (2013) A Review of Flipped learning. Read pages 3 to 6 (Introduction and Four Pillars) and skim the rest of the document for items of particular interest to you. No doubt you will find more that you want to read.
Hertz, M. The Flipped Classroom: Pro and Con. This is a fairly short blog post and gives a glimpse of "both sides of the coin" regarding this topic.
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