Claudia+Edwards

Claudia Edwards' Page I am very interested in learning how to incorporate the Wiki with classroom projects this year. At this time I think I would like to focus on a science unit in the beginning of the year. !. with the email - all the information which had to be coordinated would be scattered on everyone's inbox. 2. Wiki - is what is new! You can change what appears on the page with a click of a button.. 3. The 2 essential buttons are Edit and Save! 4. Clicking edit transforms WEB page into a working document that I can add or change! 5. Just Click! 6. When I click save the document becomes a web page.
 * Question:** After each person received the page and made changes/contributions to the camping plan, how did the individuals know which paer made the change. All I saw were words moved from left to right, the speaker said, John will bring the tent, but how did they know it was John?


 * Emmy: In an actual wiki, you would click the "History" button and see who contributed what. **

"Technically it is the 21st century, but our schools are not there, and our challenge now is to reinvent schools for the 21st century - for the sake of our children, our students and the welfare of our world."... "It is bold. It breaks the mold. It is flexible, creative, challenging, and complex. It addresses a rapidly changing world filled with fantastic new problems as well as exciting new possibilities."
 * Article:** "What is 21st Century?"

Students as early as kindergarten must participate in real-life, real-world service learning projects. We must our voices heard to create change for a better world.

we believe that authentic education addresses the “whole child”, the “whole person”, and does not limit our professional development and curriculum design to **workplace readiness**. ????? ﻿ ﻿Kathryn: It is somewhat conflicting, isnt' it? Higher education seems to be following this trend also. Curriculum is: Seven survival skills advocated by Tony Wagner in his book, //The Global Achievement Gap//: 1. This year my second grade team worked to enhance our Harcourt Trophies LA activities, by creating daily lessons on the SMART Board for spelling, reading comprehension, and writing SMART Board. This made a major impact on how I began to understand the valuable resources available and how I can provide so many more interesting lessons using resources from all over the world. These connections added variety, were entertaining, and furthered our understanding from a global perspective. ﻿Kathryn: I would love to hear what your team came up with. In teaching a foreign language, I have had to come up with strategies often used by elementary ed. teachers and apply them to middle and high school students, but at the same time make them seem more "grown up". It seems that the students have to revisit old strategies for spelling and reading comprehension in a foreign language. Literacy education and literacy practices are in the midst of a profound change.
 * Question:**
 * interdisciplinary
 * integrated
 * project-based,
 * learned within a project-based curriculum
 * Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
 * Collaboration across Networks and Leading by Influence
 * Agility and Adaptability
 * Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
 * Effective Oral and Written Communication
 * Accessing and Analyzing Information
 * Curiosity and Imagination
 * "World without Walls"**

Writing the 21st Century:
 * School and nation need to:
 * recognize and validate the many ways we all are writing.
 * develop new models of writing, design a new curriculum supporting those models, and create models for teaching that curriculum.
 * make sure that all students have the opportunity to write and learn in intellectually stimulating classrooms.
 * recognize that out-of-school literacy practices are as critical to students’ development as what occurs in the classroom and take advantage of this to better connect classroom work to real-world situations that students will encounter across a lifetime.

Kathryn: So true! Seems like a lot of effort, but the benefits could be really meaningful for students.
 * Will Richardson**
 * The Wiki has become the most important resource for information because it represents a collaborative effort of truth. There will be errors and lies, however most studies have proven it to be the most current and accurate information.
 * The Wiki is a great starting point for children to begin research but it should not be the only source of information.
 * Children should always verify there information... This creates good editing.
 * Creating a New Culture of Teaching**
 * **Kids are growing up digital. their sense of boundaries of informatin are different.**
 * **Kids just flow into it!**
 * "This is a very exciting time to be alive and to be involved in technology and in education. But I have some concern that technology could get us into trouble in ways that we might not imagine."
 * Parts to the Framework of his Learning (points to consider)
 * If it is on the internet, is it true? Most students think it is. In fact there are some who feel if the information did not appear on the internet... it is not true!
 * the internet will be the media of choice for the majority of our students.
 * **KEY...We have youth with fantastic technical skills---but lack critical thinking skills. Technical skills are trivial when considering critical thinking skills!﻿ **

﻿Kathryn: Claudia, you seem to be well in tune with the issues students and teachers face with all this mass amount of media. You seem to be making an effort at organizing your thoughts through your writing and answering the big HOW questions. It seems like you had many questions at the start of your entry and your questions were mostly answered through your reading. I wish you great success with integrating media sources into your science unit this coming school year!

Claudia -I learned/ I know that it takes a lot of time and patience. I also know that integrating technology into all subject areas will make a major difference for me and all of my students. There is no question as to the ability I will have to address different learning styles. Technology will also provide materials which are meaningful and will provide challenges at every level in all subject areas. There is no end to the individualization that can take place.

As I listened today, I am not exactly sure of what activities to begin with... What would be an ideal way to begin with the children?.. reading, math, science...? Is working with the large group to complete activities the best....as we do many times working with the SMART Board. I personally need to review more lessons.

Are Wiki activities completed primarily in the classroom for the younger students?

**I think this morning's presentations on the "Best" wikis, we all saw how students can be writing/reading/illustrating/performing on their school wiki. Whether they are actually doing some of the work at home or just at school depends on how you organize and manage the activity, your school policy on homework for young children, etc. But one great benefit to them either way is that the children are writing for a real audience and purpose, making it a much more authentic experience. I think your ideas for the ant unit you are working on are designed to give the children that kind of experience of collaborating in their work. You have come a long way since yesterday. Emmy**