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A Step-by-Step Guide to the Best Projects | Edutopia - 1 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 27 May 12
     
    An amazing resource for project based learning.
Blair Peterson

Group Work that Works - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 06 Nov 10
     
    Written for college classes, but the author provides 4 "S" principles that he feels will improve group work/projects. 1. Significant problem, 2. Specific Choice, 3. Same Problem, 4. Simultaneous Reporting
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AALF Articles - Re-Thinking Every Assumption - 0 views

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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
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