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Why bother?

Best Practices: Interactive Tools can be used to engage all students in whole-class teaching and learning by allowing students to control the pace, presence, and process of knowledge and skills acquisition. Interactive boards have the capability of providing a whole-class centered learning environment by allowing kinesthetic, verbal, written, hands-on, graphical, and collaborative interaction with the content. Collaboration sets the stage for Project-based Learning.

Project-based learning can be used to help children see the relevance of their knowledge and skills by engaging them in real-world problem solving. Projects like the Global Warming Project, School Improvement Project, Recycling Projects, Civics Projects, Historical Analysis Projects and Zero-Carbon Project become meaningful avenues for students to become passionate about learning!

Technology-supported PBL: http://coe.ksu.edu/McGrath/Edunova/Edunova_paper.htm

According to NCREL (2003) in their report of 21st century skills, there are four important sets of skills we need to teach our children:

  1. Digital-age literacy (science, economic, technological, visual, information, and multicultural/global literacies)
  2. Effective communication (collaboration, interpersonal skills, personal and civic responsibility, interactive communication)
  3. Inventive thinking (dealing with complexity, flexibility, self-direction, curiosity, creativity, higher-order thinking)
  4. High productivity (planning, prioritizing, managing for results, use of authentic tools, production of high-quality products)

Teachers need to be using “high payoff” motivators, such as:

  • project-based learning,

  • connecting with students,

  • connecting learning to the community and the students’ lives,

  • focusing on higher order thinking activities,

  • learning by doing,

  • making learning interesting, and

  • involving students in designing their learning.

( http://everyonelearns.blogspot.com/2007/01/why-we-need-schools-we-need.htm )

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(c) Dr. Joy Rousseau, October 12, 2007 may use with permission