The Best of 2 Worlds: Creating the Environment for 21st Century Learning www.sblceastconn.org/nutmegbooks2009.htm www.sblceastconn.org/scientists/scientistshome.htm www.sblceastconn.org/smallsteps.htm

1. The Best of 2 Worlds Creating the Environment for 21st Learning Donna Drasch [email_address] Rebecca Pilver [email_address]

2. 2007, we discovered wikis!

3. www.sblceastconn.org/nutmegbooks2008.htm

11. Our Challenge: How can we help facilitate the shift in teachers’ skills, beliefs, and understandings while at the same time provide an effective learning experience for students?

12. Optimal Learning Model Independent Practice By You Do Guided Practice With We Do Modeling To I Do Gradual Release of Responsibility Mooney Hunter

13. www.sblceastconn.org/nutmegbooks2009.htm

18. In these projects, students… … research, create, communicate, share knowledge, give and receive feedback and collaborate while working towards the good of the greater whole.

19. www.sblceastconn.org/scientists/scientistshome.htm

21. www.sblceastconn.org/smallsteps.htm

23. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. ~Dr. Seuss