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Teachers Everywhere
Great teaching is everywhere! This collection of case studies reveals how teachers everywhere are using technology in creative and meaningful ways to help their students learn. A few links to Apple Learning Interchange, the George Lucas Educational Foundation, and the enGauge web site are offered here. These are a small sampling of the tremendous resources available at these sites.
Early Learners
Exhibits on the Digital Edge Learning Interchange
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This links contains exhibits hosted on the Digital Edge Learning Interchange. It consists of three exhibits,
Poetry Sings with Early Readers, by Maureen Proter illustrates her reflection about her changing views of the use of technology in her kindergarten classroom. Baby Signs for Pre-K Children, by Nancy Taylor, showcases Nancy's use of technology in a Pre-K special education classroom. Nancy, an NBCT from Lake City, Florida, uses multiple forms of technology with her students and helps them to develop independence that is not seen in many classrooms of older children.
Energy Explorations, by Kim Dutton, explores the use of HyperStudio™ and its impact on her third grade students. |
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There's A Lot of Learning Going On—Use Multiple Assessments to Capture IT All By Kristi Rennebohm Franz
October 2000
Sunnyside Elementary School, Pullman, Washington
This story illustrates how young children are using email, web pages, and other tools of telecommunications to communicate with others and to build their own knowledge. |
Elementary
edutopia online
George Lucas Educational Foundation
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Beyond Band: Music Technology Inspires Students
This video and article crosses all age boundaries, beginning in primary school, as it illustrates how music education extends from the earliest grades through high school and beyond. The video describes how music technology can support all students in appreciating music composition, regardless of individual talent. |
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Apple Learning Interchange Primary Lesson Examples
This page contains links to ideas and lessons in language arts, math, social studies and science for primary level students. |
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National Math Trail
The National Math Trail is nationwide project that takes math into the community and helps students see the connections of math in their everyday lives. This concept was created by Kay Tolliver and has become a national project with contributors across America. For more information on this project, see http://www.nationalmathtrail.org/ |
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The Geo-Literacy Project
This video clip and article describe how Eva LaMar and her third grade students at from Tolenas School in Suisun, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, explore their local geography and history to create multimedia products that validate their learning.
This project is also noted below under high school because high school students participate to produce Quicktime VR (virtual reality) images of local sites. |
Middle School
edutopia online
George Lucas Educational Foundation
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The Little School That Did
ASCEND (A School Cultivating Excellence, Nurturing Diversity), Oakland Unified School District, Oakland, California.
This article describes how seventh grade students take charge of their own learning and impact people around the world. This low-income, minority school demonstrates the Outward Bound Expeditionary Learning (ELOB) model of instruction and schoolwide reform that utilizes project-based learning and takes students into the community. |
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The Maine Event
This video and article describe how the State of Maine is using laptops in middle schools to change the dynamics and quality of education for students. This story explores how laptops are use to support constructivist learning principles when equal access is provided to all students and teachers. |
High School
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