Discovering the new skills, strategies, and dispositions required for successful reading comprehension and learning on the Internet. Preparation of youth for new literacies.
Free Digital Storytelling that encourages creativity and self expression, reinforces reading and writing skills. No ads or merchandising. Made for kids. Upload artwork, record your voice and add text to pages, and email the final book to friends and family. Check it out!
Guided Inquiry: actively learning, construct knowledge, collaboration, teacher facilitates, assigned roles of manager, recorder, technician, and presenter. Short daily quiz. Read textbook and other information after the introduction in class. Examine the recorders notes which are passed in and used to guide/adjust learning. Important that students discover the right answer and not be given any answers.
(Problem-Based Learning)
Student web 2.0 tool where teachers can start a story and students continue the work writing collaborative stories. Students can even vote on which submissions should be added. Great creative tool!
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