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Title: 21st Century Schools Project


1
21st Century Schools Project
  • Alabama Best Practices Center
  • with support from
  • Microsoft Partners in Learning

2
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)

3
21st Century Skills
  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Active engagement in learning
  • Global awareness
  • Creation of web-related content

4
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

5
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

6
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"!

7
Alatoba Project
  • Chris Harbeck
  • 8th grade math teacher
  • Sargent Park School
  • Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

8
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
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