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Challenge Based Learning is collaborative and hands-on, asking students to work with other students, their teachers, and experts in their communities and around the world to develop deeper knowledge of the subjects students are studying, accept and solve challenges, take action, share their experience, and enter into a global discussion about important issues.

With as much as three fourths of each day spent in project-based learning, principal Buckner and her team actually work through required curricula, carefully figuring out how kids can learn it through the steps of Treffinger's Creative Problem-Solving method and other creativity pedagogies. "The creative problem-solving program has the highest success in increasing children's creativity,"

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"Paideic", of course, referring to Roger Caillois' seminal "Man, Play, and Games", wherein he postulates two extreme poles of games: "paidia", free playfulness, and "ludus", rule-bound, goal-oriented play.

How to design for a playful experience that is truly meaningful to its users instead of a shallow and transient novelty effect? What lessons do games offer for user experience design? What criticism of »gamification« is valid? And what can designers interested in »gameifying« an application do to steer clear of the worst pitfalls?

"The framework for doing that is inquiry-based learning, where students choose their own theme," Whiffin said. Students at the Inquiry Hub will choose from three main areas: community and global issues; environmental sustainability; and media arts, design and technology.

What might a 21st-century community look in which students direct their own education? In this world, the following scenario could take place: a student, engrossed in his favorite video game, puts down his gaming console and decides that he has an innovative idea for a new game of his own. From the convenience of his home computer he signs on to his profile at his school website and posts a bulletin within the "projects" section of the school's online network.

basic criteria - a completed application, have a laptop computer or other tablet like device, (assistance is available to those students that are unable to afford their own) and best fit based on grade level, interests, maturity, ability to show interests. The school will have a committee that will go through applications.

what a typical day would look like at the NLC.  One big advantage of this program will be the integrated approach to the curriculum.  The learning outcomes from the grade 8 and/or grade 9 curriculums will be identified and over the course of the school year students will be covering the entire grade curriculum through practice and application in their project work.

In service of its core values of innovation, individualization and personalization, and metacognitive skill development, and with the reality of the system and the unique needs of adolescents in mind, the leaders developed a five-prong model: 1.     Challenge-based modules 2.     Online learning 3.     Advisory 4.     Field Experience 5.     Core Experiences

Connect - Create - Learn This is the process behind the Inquiry Hub, a new initiative by Coquitlam Open Learning and School District #43.  The COL Inquiry Hub is a full-time grade 8-12 program which brings students together in a technology-facilitated environment and encourages them to explore their own questions from key themes: Community and global issues Environmental sustainability Media Art, design and technology

Here are six design elements that should be incorporated into the 21st Century classroom.

I  teach in an inquiry, project-based, technology embedded classroom. A mouthful, I know. So what does that mean?

So what makes a tool great? Or, a better question than that: What should we do with tools to make them great? Here are some thoughts and feedback is appreciated, this is not an exclusive list! (See # 7 from Warlick in his comment)

A culture of critical collaboration reframes the concept of failure. In the design studio, mini "failures" are endemic--but they are known by less pejorative names: prototyping, modeling, tinkering, discovery. The real secret of design is that (shh!) we never get it right the first time.

While there is an obvious range of student-centered models of education, Barraket lays out the common understanding of student-centered teaching as being a process where students are given more autonomy and control over: * the choice of subject matter * the pace of learning * the learning methods used Contrasted with the central notion of student-centered classrooms, that students should have greater autonomy over the subjects matter and pace they choose to study, I've recently been impacted by the notion of "liberating constraints"

"Innovation differs from improvement because it disrupts." Sacred cows are being challenged, these include: Physical design of the school Methods of learning The role of the teacher Exams and assessment The day - timetable, duration Libraries, books and other resources

For those not familiar with Edmodo, in a nutshell it is a microblogging system designed specifically for teachers and students. Using Edmodo teachers can create a microblogging network for their classes. Edmodo allows teachers to create a group specifically for their students and exclude those not invited to the group. Edmodo provides teachers with a place to post assignment reminders, build an event calendar, and post messages to the group. Just as with any good microblogging service users can share links, videos, and images.

I think I've found the perfect solution on how to comment on my students' blogs  WebNotes lets you highlight and add notes to web pages right from your web browser. Just go to The WebNotes site and download the software. You get a menu on top of your browser that looks like this:

Teacher advisors are given considerable time in their regularly scheduled day to fulfil their role. Teachers, on average, spend about one and one-half hours in their individual offices meeting with their advisees