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An Environmental Educator Makes a Splash Challenging Students
Suzie BossApril 7, 2009
Tags Comprehensive Assessment, Project-Based Learning, Teacher Development, All Grades, Massachusetts

Christopher Swain describes himself as an ordinary guy. Maybe. But how many of us ordinary folks would consider swimming 1,000 miles along the Atlantic coast to raise awareness about the planet's fragile health?

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Play to Learn: The Scratch Programming Language Sneaks Serious Fun into the Classroom
James DalyJuly 28, 2008
Tags Project-Based Learning, Technology Integration, All Grades, Massachusetts

Everybody loves Toy Story, the animated buddy pic that Pixar released in 1995. But Mitchel Resnick thinks the filmmakers got something very wrong in the movie.

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Low-Cost Laptop: A Redesigned Computer for the World's Children
Jim MoultonMay 20, 2008
Tags Teacher Development, Technology Integration, All Grades, Massachusetts

If you're not aware of the One Laptop per Child effort, you should be, if only because the rest of the world clearly is. And don't stop at reading what the One Laptop per Child Foundation has to say about it; read this article about it, and search "olpc," and you'll soon be an expert.

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