http://sperry20.edublogs.org Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:06:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Currently I'm doing some research in the area of Challenge Based Learning ......According to the site Challenge Based Learning is an engaging multidisciplinary approach to teaching and learning that encourages students to leverage the technology they use in their daily lives to solve real-world problems. The model above is from the ACOT2 ... http://sperry20.edublogs.org/2009/06/11/challenge-based-learning/ http://sperry20.edublogs.org/2009/05/25/web-30/ http://sperry20.edublogs.org/2009/05/22/just-a-reminder/ SuperClubsPLUS gives primary schools a safer alternative to the consumer social networks. Social opportunities The communities are available from breakfast to bedtime - on school and home computers and mobile devices, so it’s non-stop learning for children at school and at home. Children from different backgrounds and cultures keep in touch with ... http://sperry20.edublogs.org/2009/04/23/superclubsplus-australia/ IDEO’s Ten Tips For Creating a 21st–Century Classroom Experience-Posted February 18, 2009 is well worth reading and discussing. 1. Pull, don’t push. 
 2. Create from relevance. 
 3. Stop calling them “soft” skills. 
 4. Allow for variation. 
 5. No more sage onstage. 
 6. Teachers are designers. 7. Build a learning community. 
 8. Be ... http://sperry20.edublogs.org/2009/04/21/10-tips-for-21st-century-learning/ This is a great example of the learning content available to us all via YouTube ........who needs to spend thousands of $$$$ on a course to learn something? YouTube EDU!!! Jennifer Raymond (Stanford University) is building a "wiring diagram" for the brain. By bridging the gap between individual synapses and whole-brain learning ... http://sperry20.edublogs.org/2009/04/07/learningyoutube/ http://sperry20.edublogs.org/2009/04/06/twittermadmarch/ Google Earth 5.0 is very powerful and has lots more features for learning and teaching. Try Recording a tour, check out Oceans and new street views. The look back in time feature is very cool.   http://sperry20.edublogs.org/2009/03/18/google-earth-50/ A very powerful video from a young women with ideas worth sharing..Wow! Be sure to check out her other videos. http://sperry20.edublogs.org/2009/03/16/lost-generation/ Powerful Learning, Technology & Mathematics in action!!!
 Mr. Marcos has found this task to be so motivating that he has worked to build a new YouTube like Web site (http://www.mathtrain.tv) that he and the rest of his school’s math department uses to share the growing number of screencasts that students are ... http://sperry20.edublogs.org/2009/03/11/powerful-learning-technology-mathematics/