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The kind of questioning, collaborative, active, lateral rather than hierarchical pedagogy that participatory media both forces and enables is not the kind of change that takes place quickly or at all in public schools.

Are you looking for a new approach to engage your students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics? NASA's Do-It-Yourself Podcast activity sets the stage for students to host a show that features astronauts training for missions, doing experiments in space or demonstrating equipment. We'll provide a set of audio and video clips along with photos and information about a space-related topic. You and your students may choose as many items as you want to include in your project and download them to your computer. Students may use the information we provide or conduct their own research to write a script for an audio or video production.

School Grounds Projects Using Google Tools All the information needed to carry out Digital Fieldwork in the school grounds. The manual is based around a 6 session project investigating any aspect of the school grounds and covers the following topics: digital photography, blogging, Google Earth, Google Maps, digital video, and project management.

his site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.T

The GTA sessions

SMART lesson search created by Ben Hazzard

Great site to show students multiple sites to use and why. Great for organizing multiple websites that students should use as a resource.

A tool to help show people multiple websites and way these websites are useful.

This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances.

interactive website to understand the world-wide history of slavery. May not appeal to non-readers

Drama & enactment strategy--inquiry & pbl uses

rich site with many resources & links for using mantle of the expert & role playing strategies

This is interesting if you're working on a lesson plan about nutrition or sustainable farming.

A research paper by John Seely Brown, Allan Collins and Paul Duguid, one of my favorites - Authors discuss learning theory and how conventional schooling too often ignores the influence of school culture on what is learned in school. Good background for why PBL works, especially the info on using tools.

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