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Enriched Learning Projects
A Practical Pathway to 21st Century Skills
Translate standards-based content into enriched learning projects that build 21st century skills. A valuable tool for teachers, this book uses an enriched learning projects model to develop student skills in communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and global and cross-cultural awareness. It highlights e-tools that enhance projects and presents research-based instructional strategies that engage students.
Benefits
- Gain strategies that maximize student chances for higher achievement while meeting standards.
- Enrich your instruction with electronic tools that facilitate collaboration, communication, critical and creative thinking, and problem solving.
- Get a template and examples for designing and assessing enriched learning experiences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: A New Paradigm for Instruction
Chapter 2: Planning Your Enriched Learning Project
Chapter 3: Technology Tools for Enriched Learning Projects
Chapter 4: Which Instructional Strategies Count Most?
Chapter 5: Nurturing Quality Thinking
Chapter 6: Making Critical Thinking Matter
Chapter 7: Creating a Collaborative Classroom Culture
Chapter 8: Assessing Enriched Projects
Chapter 9: An Enriched Project Sampler
Appendix: The Research on Project-Based Learning
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
- My Notes for a Project Plan
- Rubric for Assessing Your Enriched Learning Project Plan
- Journal Checklist
- Tactical Lesson Plan
- The Three Little Whats
- Sample Checklist for a Systematic Search
- Selecting Your Instructional Framework
- Creating Your Tactical Plan for Collaborative Learning
- Shift Collaboration Checklist
- Project Report
- Master Project Planner
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
- Mind Tools
- Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
- International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
- Instructional Technology Research Online
- SMART Technologies
- Edutopia
- Blackboard Collaborate
- Envision Project Bank
- ePals
- High Tech High
- New Technology High School
- Questia
- Stay Safe Online
- Think
- Think Quest
- WestEd
- IHMC Cmap Tools
- Freeology
- International Renewal Institute (iRi)
- Web English Teacher
- Global Kids
- Global SchoolNet
- National Writing Project
- Schools Linking Network
- Telecollaborate
- Skype
- European Schoolnet Project Database
- Education Place Project Registry
- Friendship Through Education
- CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
- Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
- Class Blogmeister
- Cooperative Learning Institute
- Gaggle
- Moodle
- Wilderdom
- Wikipedia
- Microsoft in Education
- Project Based Learning
- Web Poster Wizard
- University of New Castle
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- International Reading Association
- ISTE Standards
To identify the standards for your state and subject area, search "state education standards" plus the state name or the professional organization for your subject area. In order to develop the samples used in this book, the following sites were helpful:
- National Council of Teachers of English
- Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL)
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- National Science Teachers Association
- National Council for the Social Studies
- International Society for Technology in Education
In order to show a variety of state samples in this book, the following sites—in particular, the Massachusetts site—were helpful:
- Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
- Pennsylvania Department of Education
- Illinois State Board of Education
- California Department of Education
- New York State Education Department
- Maryland State Department of Education
- Montana Office of Public Instruction
- Oregon Department of Education
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