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Graded21c 21stcentury technology learning Tools Global StudentCenteredLearning

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  • Blair Peterson on 05 Oct 10
     
    Wiki with ideas for global projects and tools to enhance the global projects.
Blair Peterson

Research-Supported PBL Practices | Edutopia - 0 views

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21stcentury StudentCenteredLearning pbl project based learning OngoingProfessionalDevelopment AssessmentandEvaluation Innovation

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  • Students at Manor New Tech typically complete nearly 200 projects over the course of their high school experience, with each project lasting about two to four weeks.
  • "How can we use mathematics to design and use a Dobsonian telescope?"
  • he rubric often includes time lines and information on essential elements of successful final products (for example, if a report may be produced as a podcast rather than a paper, the rubric specifies minimum length for the podcast).
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  • Manor has six learning outcomes that are assessed in every project: written communication, oral communication, collaboration, critical thinking, work ethic, and technology literacy.
  • Two additional learning outcomes -- numeracy and global awareness/community engagement -- each must be assessed in at least one project per semester.
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AALF Articles - Re-Thinking Every Assumption - 0 views

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AALF StudentCenteredLearning ProjectBasedLearning

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  • course modules focused on developing students' understanding of big ideas and global concepts,
  • have a daily learning practice that involves myriad social media platforms, a whole range of devices and connectivities, lots of interest in learning about new platforms and means of expression, and an intense inclination to be a learner around technology.
  • instructors who
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  • myriad ways in which technology allows students to connect with other students, field experts, and other teachers around the world,
  • learning is deeply pleasurable, if not always fun (doing hard things is not always fun, but worth it)
  • that students are good at deciding for themselves what kinds of remediation they may need and how best to get it (in consultation with an advisor or other students)
  • assumption that everyone has a stake in their own learning, that
  • to prepare for the New York State Regents exam, students do all the memorization and content-cramming with teacher-created, web-based products so that instructional time does not have to be spent on this
  • strategically using online course learning and other web-based experiences as foundational content, students at the iSchool this past year worked with the designers of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum to get a more global perspective on the ways teens think about the events leading up to 9-11, interviewing kids in Pakistan and Australia about terrorism and victimization; designed a website to develop environmental awareness on the pros and cons of fracking called, thinkbeforeyoufrack; and created cultural ethnographic films about being sixteen all around the world, probing concepts like dating, what being in a relationship means, what you eat says about you culturally and socially.
  • Many of the conventional school environments I'm in are distinctly flat, arid, uninteresting places, physically and intellectually. Bulletin boards that could date from my own elementary school line classroom walls, with publisher's slogans about trying harder or doing your best. Adults choose what goes on the walls , and the aesthetics of learning spaces seem almost deliberately ignored.
  • What can we learn about these new "entrepreneurial" learning environments, where technology is central but not at the center? The medium that extends, defines, and mediates learning, but is not the thing? Collaboration is at the center, we are still learning how to do this, making "little bets" on changes in school culture which allow us to fail early and adapt, is part of establishing these transformative learning cultures
  • "It's not about the technology, it's about rethinking how learning happens."
  • smenegh Meneghini on 20 Sep 11
     
    If you wanted to rethink every assumption about conventional high school--with multi-media technology at the center, combined with an intense conviction about adolescents ' desire to do meaningful and important work--what would it look like? "This is the NYC iSchool
Blair Peterson

Problem-Based Learning or Just Another Project? Use This Checklist to Find Out | TeachB... - 1 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 19 Mar 13
     
    Checklist that is helpful.
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21stcentury Graded21c sharedvision Global Projects global citizenship

shared by Blair Peterson on 19 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Blair Peterson on 19 Mar 13
     
    If you only watch the first story in the first two minutes this is worth it. I think that the rest is good as well. Fredrik wrote the Ideas Book which is excellent. He tried to get him for Innovate but he was too expensive.
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Brain scan: Making data dance | The Economist - 1 views

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  • that it no longer makes sense to consider the world as divided between developing and industrialised countries; and that people everywhere respond similarly to increasing levels of wealth and health, with higher material aspirations and smaller families. “There is no such thing as a ‘we’ and a ‘they’, with a gap in between,”
  • The best measure of political stability of a country, he believes, is whether fertility rates are falling, because that indicates that women are being educated and basic health services are being provided. “
  • Innovation in infographics has always been driven by the need to explain difficult things,
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  • Nightingale’s famous “coxcomb” chart from 1858 demonstrated that improving hygiene in British military hospitals slashed mortality rates. She said its design was intended “to affect thro’ the eyes what we fail to convey to the public through their word-proof ears.”
  • Twenty years later his word-proof students would get something altogether more dynamic than Nightingale’s pie charts to demystify global socioeconomic trends.
  • “It was a conscious intent to make the data look alive,”
  • “Statistics constitute a bulk of information that is surprisingly badly organised,”
  • The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands that every research project it funds has to make its full data set freely available, like open-source software code.”
  • “While nothing now can stop the surge to 9 billion, if the poorest 2 billion get improved child survival and the ability to buy bicycles and mobile phones, population growth will stop.
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