exciting project that gives families ability to use digital "toys" to play together online. Read more under Related Publications to learn more about the distinction between games and toys. It's an important one.
Meaning Project is also known as Roots & Wings Project. Challenge is to read a book on creativity and/or digital storytelling and create a video response known as a bookcast.
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The right to be teachers
In an online environment, teachers no longer need to be sole authority figures but instead should share responsibility with learners at almost every turn. Students can participate and shape one another's learning through peer interaction, new content, enhancement of learning materials and by forming virtual and real-world networks. Students have the right to engaged participation in the construction of their own learning. Students are makers, doers, thinkers, contributors, not just passive recipients of someone else's lecture notes or methods. They are critical contributors to their disciplines, fields, and to the larger enterprise of education."