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- Carving Cultural Connections: Students Craft a Canoe
deck: An extraordinary experience-based education project enables a group of Washington students to live their Native American culture history curriculum. More to this story. Media Info media path: media ...
Media - 4/2/2008
- Turning On the Switch: ASCEND School
deck: When parents and educators pulled together to start this East Oakland school, their mission wasn't just to reinvigorate education; it was to change lives. More to this story. Media Info media path: ...
Media - 4/4/2008
- A Product of Learning: King Middle School
deck: A school uses technology to help provide top-of-the-line education for all students. More to this story. Media Info media path: media/1127_kingms/kingms media width: 406 ...
Media - 4/10/2008
- An Experience They’ll Never Forget: Expeditionary Learning
In my previous post, " A Passion for Knowledge: An Introduction to Expeditionary Learning ," I introduced the concept of expeditionary learning with a video clip taken at ASCEND School, in Oakland, California. King Middle School, in Portland, ...
Spiral Notebook - Diane Demee-Benoit - 5/16/2008
- Start with the Pyramid: Real-World Issues Motivate Students
VIDEO: Project-Based-Learning Overview Running Time: 9 min. Ask Seymour Papert, renowned expert on children and computing, why students are turned off by school, and he quickly offers an example: "We teach numbers, then algebr ...
Article - - 4/24/2008
- PBL Research Summary: Studies Validate Project-Based Learning
Teamwork, technology, and hands-on work are important elements of project-based learning. Credit: Edutopia A growing body of academic research supports the use of project-based learning in schools as a way to engage students, cut absent ...
Article - - 4/6/2008
- A Passion for Knowledge: An Introduction to Expeditionary Learning
When I taught zoology and environmental science, my colleagues and I worked hard to create multifaceted learning experiences because we saw that the kids who truly mastered a subject and developed a greater passion for learning were those who had the op ...
Spiral Notebook - Diane Demee-Benoit - 5/16/2008
- A School with a Worldview: Teens Learn Beyond Borders
VIDEO: Learning Without Borders Running Time: 7 min. In our eleventh year as the International School of the Americas (ISA) in San Antonio, Texas, we are still an evolving and growing community of learners. At the time of our ...
Article - - 4/25/2008
- Engaging the Heart and the Mind: Expeditionary Learning Teaches the Whole Child
In addition to its focus on active pedagogy and effective instructional practices, expeditionary learning values the development of the whole child. Self-discovery, collaboration, empathy and caring, diversity and inclusion, and service to communit ...
Spiral Notebook - Diane Demee-Benoit - 5/16/2008
- River Journeys and Life Without Bathing: Immersive Education
This past winter, a bunch of seventh graders went 1,000 Years Without a Bath. OK, not literally, but the students at King Middle School , in Portland, Maine, were so into learning about the Middle Ages that some might have actually gone on a shower ...
Article - - 4/7/2008
