Project Based Learning

CUP makes educational projects about places and how they change. Our projects bring together art and design professionals - artists, graphic designers, architects, urban planners - with community-based advocates and researchers - organizers, government officials, academics, service-providers and policymakers. These partners work with CUP staff to create projects ranging from high school curricula to educational exhibitions.

'The duration of these activities may range from days to weeks, or longer. The teacher acts as a facilitator of the exercise, as students work together usually in pairs or small groups. The students may have different roles to fill and gain specific expertise in these team building events. Social interactions plays an important part. '

The school's approach to reengaging students in learning has an important twist: Downtown's curriculum is entirely project based. Its alternative format allows students to choose a thematic, integrated pathway of subjects each semester, find connections among these subjects in real-world settings, and, hopefully, discover their passions along the way.

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.

interesting 2007 salary survey for Asian Internatonal Schools

The Blogging Revolution launched in Sydney in late September at leading independent bookshop Gleebooks. It was recorded and screened on ABC2 and is now available online below. I was in conversation with leading media commentator Kate Crawford:

PrimaryAccess is a web-based tool that offers teachers and students frictionless access to digital images and materials that enable them to construct compelling personal narratives.

hate and lothing in USA over Obama rally. This is so bad.

Amanda's 21C beginning teacher presentation

This is an amazingly perceptive and honest post, which mirrors wht many are thinking right now.

DoodleBuzz is a new way to read the news through an experimental interface that allows you to create typographic maps of current news stories. - cool visual search tool in the Wordle school of fun.