21st Century Schools Project

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21st Century Schools Project

• Alabama Best Practices Center
• with support from
• Microsoft Partners in Learning

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21st Century Schools Project

• 10 teachers across the state were selected to be
  Fellows (Fall 2005)
• 20 schools were chosen to participate through
  teams of five (Spring 2006)
• 20 more schools were added to the program (Fall
  2006)

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21st Century Skills

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Active engagement in learning
• Global awareness
• Creation of web-related content

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21st Century Tools

• Project-Based Learning
• Web 2.0 (New tools)
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Podcasts
• VOIP phone calls
• Web 1.0 (Old tools used in new ways)
• Instant messaging
• Discussion forums

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Advanced Team Project

• Create a wiki to house resources for
  project-based learning
• Links to resources and lesson plans
• Details of projects we have tried
• Focus on IB elements of interdisciplinary units
  and technology design cycle

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What is a wiki?

• The term wiki is a shortened form of wiki wiki
  which is from the native language of Hawaii where
  it is commonly used as an adjective to denote
  something "quick" or "fast"!

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Alatoba Project

• Chris Harbeck
• 8th grade math teacher
• Sargent Park School
• Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Alatoba Project

• Proportions
• Choose an item from everyday life and convert its
  price to Canadian dollars.
• Create a slideshow showing your work.
• Post the slideshow to the wiki
• Internationalism
• How do prices compare in the two countries?
• How are Canadian students similar to and
  different from us?

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Additional Information and Links

• crmspbl.wikispaces.com
• Click on School Board Presentation