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Exploring Computer Science Exploring Computer Science (ECS) is a K-12/university partnership between the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and the University of... |
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The Council of Youth Research In a partnership between UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access and Los Angeles high school students, the Council of Youth Research... |
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2 years 33 weeks ago |
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WHYs Up! WHYs Up! is a blog created by 25 high school students from East Oakland, California. For one month, the students explored different neighborhoods in... |
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2 years 33 weeks ago |
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Youth Roots Youth Roots, currently based at Arise High School, Oakland, California, is an out-of-school program in which "youth earn their rightful place in... |
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2 years 33 weeks ago |
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Technology and Kindergarten: Is It Possible? Technology and writing go hand in hand in the lives of students today. They are texting, Facebooking, Tweeting, blogging and more on a daily basis.... |
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2 years 33 weeks ago |
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Bringing Digital Books to Life The connection between image and words can be a powerful experience for a reader, and for a writer. Since my first year of teaching sixth graders, I... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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2 years 33 weeks ago |
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The First Howdy Dewar News Crew The next year, my role changed a bit. Instead of being a resource teacher, I was back with a homeroom. This time my homeroom was going to be a self-... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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Saying Goodbye and Welcoming a New Crew Throughout the year, I saw my vision of a class of below level students taking on the personality and abilities of a gifted class emerge. Yes, the... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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2 years 33 weeks ago |
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Tinkering and Exploration "If you are willing to give up control and let students be in the driver seat, a lot of times they're the ones who can help lead you to the right... |
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2 years 33 weeks ago |
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Sequence of Inquiry for Wiki work "The inquiry process is at the heart of all the technology tools I use with my students. This page shows the common sequence I use when introducing... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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2 years 33 weeks ago |
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A Question of Balance "As an educator, I care about how learning happens. When I think about my own ferocious engagement with learning out on the MUni (mountain unicycling... |
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2 years 33 weeks ago |
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A Case for Filmmaking in the Classroom In the current test-scores-driven climate, I often find myself having to justify how filmmaking fits into the K12 curriculum. The piece that follows... |
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2 years 33 weeks ago |
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Companion Website for The Digital Writing Workshop by Troy Hicks The companion website for The Digital Writing Workshop (Heinemann, 2009) by Troy Hicks adds necessary multimedia components to this important text.... |
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2 years 33 weeks ago |
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The Year-Long Projects Our biggest classroom project became the Howdy Dewar News, Dewar Elementary School’s first daily news broadcast, which my students created and... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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2 years 33 weeks ago |
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Interview: Will Richardson on Connective Writing In this interview, broken into three parts, Will Richardson further explains what he means when he talks about connective writing. It part 1,... |
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2 years 33 weeks ago |
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Teaching Blogging Not Blogs As I was preparing to give a presentation for CyberCamp, a summer professional development experience I created in the summer of 2008, I tried to put... |
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2 years 33 weeks ago |
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21st Century Digital Citizens The students I’m working with today will graduate in 2018. They are citizens of the 21st century digital age. They are not the love generation, the X... |
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2 years 33 weeks ago |
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Making Movies Happen After my first year at Williamston High School, I was labeled as one of the writing teachers within the English department. I was given some degree... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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2 years 33 weeks ago |
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Pitching the Product Like so many projects I start with my students, this one began with my own desire to play with and explore digital video production. As a result, the... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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2 years 33 weeks ago |
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Video for Voice A student, Harris, talks about her experience as part of the Williamston Digital Broadcasting Project. Harris explores topics of audience awareness,... Read all pages in this resource, starting from the beginning |
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