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"Welcome to the 21st Century Student Learning Example Page Why? As educators focusing on 21st Century Learning, it is important that we are able to share examples of powerful student work that we can share with educators around the world. It is important that we have this opportunity to not only talk about how we can empower students, but as examples of how this has ALREADY affected student learning. The Motivation? This wiki was inspired (as many things are) by a student that did a phenomenal job on discussing her PLN that was shared numerous times on Twitter Examples (Please list by title, format (linked), and then brief explanation) Student Examples Description Portfolios/Blogs * Cary Academy Student Portfolios - Student Blogfolios - Using WordPress as a platform, students at this school created their own portfolios that are open to the world and can be shared with the entire world. * Ancaster Meadow School Grade 1 Student Blogs -- Student Blogs -- Using Kidblog, my Grade 1 students have blogged on a variety of topics relating to numerous curriculum areas. These blogs have almost become portfolios: showing their best work in all subject areas. * Oaktree Elementary Grade 3 Reading Response Blog-Reading blog Third grade students using a blog to talk about the books we are reading, share what they are writing about, and comment on each other's thoughts. I used WordPress for this blog and all the blogs we use in class. These students also collaborated with 4 other schools on a blog about the rain forest , and we blog with a student that moved so we can keep in touch. * Mrs. Cassidy's Grade One Blog - The students' work is shown through pictures and video on the teacher's blog, and each student's blog (linked from the teacher's blog) is an online portfolio of their learning in many subject areas through the course of the year. * Student Blogging - www.dablog-dablog.blogspot.com - Getting teen students to write is usually an impossible task.

insightful post about the way schools are run - makes you wonder why

One of the keys ways to help students develop their reading skills is to help them find something they're interested in reading about. Learning about their names, and the name of their family members and friends, could certainly fit into the "high-interest" category. And there are several websites that are designed to facilitate learning just that. After exploring these sites (or before), students can also talk with their family to learn other stories behind their names.

"Teaching conventions can become somewhat dry. Try using interactive online games instead. After making a simple Google search, I found a couple your students might enjoy playing. In Power Proofreading , students act as proofreading technicians to fix TV scripts, memos, and other writings for a television station. Then there's Punctuation Paintball , a creative way for children to learn many of the rules of basic punctuation and capitalization. Schoolhouse Rock! - No explanation needed... I hope. This is a perfect place to integrate music with writing. Have fun and visit Schoolhouserock.tv to links to YouTube videos and lyrics. Presentation A Finished Look - Have students be proud of their paper. Neatness counts! An Interesting Look - I can't leave the following resource out. Maybe it doesn't fit here, or maybe it does. However, you just have to give Wordle a try. Wordle creates beautiful word clouds. Simply copy and paste a story into the text box and Wordle will do the rest. The more a word was used, the more prominently it is displayed in the cloud."

Bring the News to Life Would you like your students to browse newspapers from around the world? Would your students be interested in a kaleidoscopic reading of news reports? If you answered yes, then you should visit Today's Front Pages, which is run by the Newseum in Washington, D.C. As the name implies, Today's Front Pages provides daily access to newspapers all over the globe. There are three ways to read them: with the use of the gallery, list or map. In any of these three possibilities, the front pages may be sorted by geographical region. The site provides access to more than 800 front pages from 70 countries, updated daily. After choosing the newspaper you want to read, you can print the front page or open it in PDF format.

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