Laura Stockman- share, connect, collaborate, collective action

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Personal Learning Networks Community-- in and out of the classroom Are you “clickable”- Are your students?

Letting Student Passion and Interest Rule the Curriculum Lisa Duke's students at First Flight High School in the Outer Banks in NC created this video as part of a service project in her Civics and Economics course curriculum.

Spending most of your time in your area of weakness—while it will improve your skills, perhaps to a level of “average”—will NOT produce excellence This approach does NOT tap into student motivation or lead to student engagement The biggest challenge facing us as educators: how to engage the hearts and minds of the learners

What will be our legacy… Bertelsmann Foundation Report: The Impact of Media and Technology in Schools 2 Groups Content Area: Civil War One Group taught using Sage on the Stage methodology One Group taught using innovative applications of technology and project-based instructional models End of the Study, both groups given identical teacher-constructed tests of their knowledge of the Civil War. Question: Which group did better?

Bertelsmann Foundation Report: The Impact of Media and Technology in Schools

2 Groups

Content Area: Civil War

One Group taught using Sage on the Stage methodology

One Group taught using innovative applications of technology and project-based instructional models

End of the Study, both groups given identical teacher-constructed tests of their knowledge of the Civil War.

Question: Which group did better?

Answer… No significant test differences were found

No significant test differences were found

However… One Year Later Students in the traditional group could recall almost nothing about the historical content Students in the traditional group defined history as: “the record of the facts of the past” Students in the digital group “displayed elaborate concepts and ideas that they had extended to other areas of history” Students in the digital group defined history as: “ a process of interpreting the past from different perspectives”

Students in the traditional group could recall almost nothing about the historical content

Students in the traditional group defined history as: “the record of the facts of the past”

Students in the digital group “displayed elaborate concepts and ideas that they had extended to other areas of history”

Students in the digital group defined history as:

“ a process of interpreting the past from different perspectives”

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