Snapshots+of+21st+Century+Learning-Secondary

The Alice Project
====English teacher Christian Long designed this experience for his 10th grade Honors students. Over a six week period, they took a tumble down the rabbit hole to discover Alice's Adventures in Wonderland first-hand. They worked in collaborative groups publishing questions and reflections in real-time on a global scale. Thirty-five jurors from around the world spent a 2 week period reading and responding to the student blogs. ====

2) allow students to contribute and communicate with the "real world" of economics.
====3) re-think the way a classroom should be constructed by inverting it (lecture at home via podcast and class time for practice, synthesis and discussion) ====

The Flipped Classroom
====Karl Fisch, math teacher and the person responsible for the mega-viral video, “Did You Know,” shared his work with the idea of flipped instruction in this [|blog post]. Fisch uploads his lectures to YouTube and asks his students to view it for homework. The next day he asks his students to apply the concepts in class; an interesting and provocative idea and one we should consider as we search for powerful ways to utilize technology to support and enhance learning. ====

Back into the Digital Breach
====Clay Burell, English teacher decides to turn learning upside down by allowing his students to self-select a project based on their particular learning style. Interesting thoughts here. ====

====Learnin﻿g through Presentations ==== ====Jeff Utecht works with an English teacher to transform the way in which students study the classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. Instead of the usual powerpoint presentation, they ramp it up a bit: What if the presentation was a story, a journey, an in-depth look into some aspect of a book, a time period as told through images and the research of the storyteller. What if the preperation of making the presentation was about learning? What if it was about crafting a story and understanding a topic to the point where you could stand and without notes, without bulletpoints tell your story. ====

====Shelley Wright, English teacher, decides to jump into using technology to support her students' learning. This blog post chronicles both her growing interest in helping her students become independent learners, as well as her sadness as she lets go of well-worn instructional practices. ====

====Although lengthy, this video should not be missed. Eric Mazur, a Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University shares how he adjusted his teaching methods to help his students learn Physics. ====

====Dan Meyer, a high school math teacher, shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think. From the TEDxNYED: Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. Be sure to check out Dan's most recent little gem: @http://vimeo.com/19507645 ====

====Vinnie Vrotny, created this project for his. Students are asked to create a 3-5 minute film using still photos, a musical soundtrack and text to answer the essential question: What does Vietnam mean 35 years later, particularly with respect to the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan? ====

Embrace the Mess
====English teacher, Jon Orech, creates a twist on this assignment for Lord of the Flies. The final product required students to create a scholarly online article analyzing a particular theme and how it was illustrated in the text. ====