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=Junior High English and Bible: Can You Embrace Online Collaborative Projects & Moodle???=

The 21st Century Learner:
** “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”Alvin Toffler **

[|Our mission work with our students is cut out for us!] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8&feature=related)

So who is this 21st century learner? [|21stCentLearner.doc]

How should education respond to this learner? [|21stCentEducationChanges.doc]

So at GAC, it's time to turn up the **H** igher Order Thinking **E** ngaged Learner **A** uthentic Assessment **T** echnology Integration

Strategies that turn on 21st century learners!
 * [|the 6 C's of motivation (]choice, challenge, control, collaboration, constructing meaning, consequesces)
 * [|Authentic Assessment.doc] (directions and strategies)
 * [|collaborative learning] (Students share learning strategies and perspective for deeper learning. Vygotsky)
 * [|online learning (]access to authorities, appeals to the multimodality learner, offers variety/access/control)

Now it's your turn to take the notes!!!
Take turns being a scribe. Take notes in your group discussions. Post your notes, following my directions as we go along!

What's the difference? (This is where YOU will upload your notes!)

 * Only one person can change "wiki spaces" at a time, but on google documents, many can change.

Collaborative learning example--literature circles --Everyone has a role --Students organize, segment, and create --Students share strategies, perspective, and ownership

Google doc is a spreadsheet type page that everyone can work on at the same time. This is helpful for them to be able to work in groups from home. It is saved in an "easy to get to" place.

Moodle is a central location for you and your students to blog, give assignments, store documents, quiz, etc.

How do my students and I get into collaborative learning?
 * Create small groups that pursue learning challenges, sharing strategies and perspectives, with you as a mentor, not a purveyor of facts.
 * Let go of the test and look at what your students can accomplish together.
 * Allow for group responsibility and individual responsibility.
 * Honor those 6 C's of Motivation--really.
 * Remember that the best learning takes place in an empowered learning community, not a sit and listen session.
 * [|The Science of Class Collaboration]

How could you use Google Docs for student collaboration?

 * [|English Google Doc]
 * [|Bible Google Doc]
 * Ideas for using Google Docs: (This is where YOU will upload your notes!)

====[|This wiki will make you a believer!] If 5th graders can do this, just think what your English and Bible students could achieve together! Remember the difference between collaborative planning, individual contribution to a portion, and a truly collaborative learning challenge (group problem-solving and decision-making).====

Try these out. Brainstorm. How could these be a jump-off point for you?
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic1.htm

http://www.wtps.org/wths/imc/ProfessionalDevelopment/Quickpicks/online_collaborative_projects.htm

http://projectsbyjen.ning.com/

http://www.globalschoolnet.org/gsnpr

http://www.k12science.org/currichome.html

http://poetrycollaboration.wikispaces.com/

This is where YOU will upload your notes about the sites you explored, using Google Docs and then having one person uploan

Moodle

 * Virtual Classroom
 * Provides assignments, calendar, files, links, online submission, digital storage locker, forum, blog, glossary, quizzes, and on and on.
 * [|Try it! Maybe you'll like it!]
 * This is where YOU will upload your notes!

[|Bible Answers]