21st+Century+Classrooms

=21st Century Classrooms=

__**Elementary Research 5/19/2010**__
Student video, stop action clay figures, We love our library: media type="youtube" key="Hrx1gkeiPIE" height="229" width="288"

Winner of the ALA video contest on promoting your library: []

Winners of the 2009 Book Cart Precision Drill Team: media type="youtube" key="HtmZxghTkyY" height="196" width="328"

FNO: Why We Still Need Libraries and Librarians []

Jamie Bellingham and the Bulldozer: []

Natalie's Slideshow:

Kindergarten class duck blog : duck study, inquiry driven: []

Famous Americans Biography Book Report by fifth grade students [|James Madison] [|Alexander Graham Bell]

Native American Commemorative Stamp Designs: fifth grade students [|Kachina Doll] [|Making Pottery]

[|Fairy tale mock trials] via the American Bar Association

[|The President Report]

[|The Animal Report]

Fakebook Reports: [|William Shakespeare] [|Civil War Generals] (Keynote 09)

Natalie's web page on how to evaluate a web site: [|http://python.paideiaschool.org/~bernstein.natalie/?OpenItemURL=S00D7C9C0]

Sample Research Products: []

List of examples of best practice: []

Big Six with resources/links for each step: []

Resources for School Librarians;[| http://www.sldirectory.com/libsf/resf/libplans.html] Elem schools research models, template, Baltimore Public Schools: []

Jamie Bellingham Research Cycle; [| http://bellinghamschools.org/sites/default/files/studentgal/onlineresearch/newonline/online.htm]

A group of innovative teachers at Paideia met periodically throughout the 08-09 year to discuss teaching in the 21st century. Below are notes from some of the meetings.

__Meeting Notes__
**//Notes from 11/13/2008://**
 * What skills do our students need?**
 * Ability to apply tech skills across subjects and types of software (If I know how to use //that//, I can figure out how to use //this//)
 * Word processing/editing/typing
 * Researching skills (be more thorough and comprehensive, go beyond first available link, evaluate sources, search more effectively)
 * Content knowledge
 * Collaboration
 * Careful reading
 * Taking responsibility
 * Problem-solving/posing new problems to be solved
 * Critical thinking
 * Organization
 * Self-learning
 * Ability to generate knowledge
 * Communication
 * Risk-taking
 * Willingness to explore
 * Ownership of learning
 * Self-assessment/monitoring


 * What are some specific examples of projects that address these needed skills?**
 * Wiki created by students that provides notes and test questions (skill = generate knowledge)
 * Online reports with peer review (skill = assessment/feedback)
 * Movies (skills = collaboration, organization)


 * How do teacher/student roles change?**
 * Student-generated content
 * Teacher acts as facilitator in some instances
 * Flexibility/adaptability


 * How to move forward**
 * Find an example and adapt it to fit your class
 * Try adapting a small task/project that you already do
 * Form support groups of people who are interested in learning new tools/activities together

//** Innovative Teachers Follow-Up Meeting 4/14 **//

Kids should do the research, not the teachers. Martha/Brian put links on wiki for kids to do their own research. Kids in their class are used to having to go to the wiki on their own.

100 web 2.0 sites for educators helpful. []

Ideally, we would have computers for every kid to do many of the things Alan talked about.

Surprising how many free online or downloadable software programs are out there. Brian used Writeboard for Conference sign-up.

Sumopaint - similar to photoshop. See wikipi for address. Befunky.com

David and Becca set up a custom search engine for Egypt research - kids are required to use it. The link for the search engine is on their webpage.

How far should we be going with web literacy for elem. students? Do we need something more systematic?

Parents of our students may not know the realities of the web 2.0 generation.

As there is more and more information, and access to information, we have more to teach and must decide what to cut.

It is inspiring to see what our own teachers at Paideia are doing with technology. Could we meet with departments to share what they are doing?

We would like teachers to teach technology classes before summer vacation.

Joy's students were e-mailing and Skyping with students in other countries. There was a 2 or 3 month drop in interest.

Could we use Facebook? Could we create a social network site for new students?

Need time to "share your latest trick" with your department/level.

There are people getting paid by companies to "color" wikipedia entries. Movies Page - visit this page to see the films shown at our meetings.


 * 10/6/2009**

__Cool links__

Google Tools:
 * Google Doc Gadgets
 * Equation Editor
 * [|**Google Squared-**] Search tool that builds a collection of facts from the web.
 * Google "Show Options"- Timeline and Wonder Wheel
 * [|**Google News Timeline**] - "Web application that organizes information chronologically
 * [|In Quotes]
 * **LIFE Photo Archive** - []  "Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."
 * [|**Google Labs**] **-** Latest ideas from the Google team.

[] "Magically" remove everything except the video from any YouTube page. Share the URL on a web page or via email.


 * Many Eyes** - []  "Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns." Upload a data set (or use and existing one) to create one of 18 types of interactive visualizations. Browse the gallery to explore existing visualizations. Wordle was developed as part of this powerful IBM-hosted project.