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Paradise Valley Unified School District is reaching beyond the classroom walls making global connections using 21st Century tools... Real Experiences Advancing Childhood Humanities.
MediaFest REACH Movie Awards - April 28, 2009, Kickoff January 23.
MediaFest showcase this year will be the REACH Awards, presented by the PVUSD to recognize outstanding student movie achievements for the school year. This year's theme is:
"REACH: Youth for Positive Change"
MediaFest REACH Movie Awards page.
"REACH: Youth for Positive Change"
MediaFest REACH Movie Awards page.
Share with Us Your Examples of REACH
Teachers and students are REACH'ing outside the walls to discover the joy of learning, to and from the world. Space and time barriers are being removed throughout K-12, as activities and projects appear; across the hall, with homes, with other schools, across the state, country and throughout the world. Using 21st century tools such as pvLearners, pTUNES, pCHAT, and Distancia. Students and teachers are now able to create, communicate and collaborate in ways never before possible.
Share with us your examples of classroom REACH practices.
Please contribute using the below Grade Level Showcast Blog.
Share with us your examples of classroom REACH practices.
Please contribute using the below Grade Level Showcast Blog.
"If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow." - John Dewey
3 Steps for 21st Century Learning-by Jackie Halaw
- 1. Transform Your Classroom into a Creative Learning Space.
- 2. Teach Students the Skills of Competition, Cooperation and Collaboration.
- 3. Introduce Your Students to Their Global Peers and Provide an Opportunity for them to Collaborate.
Want to Make a Global Connection?
- 25 Days to Make a Difference
- CIESE Collaborative Projects
- Connect With Our Troops
- Do Something!
- Flat Classroom
- Global Project-Based Learning Resource List
- Global Schoolnet Registry
- Go North! Explore the Artic
- iEARN
- OZ Projects
- Roots & Shoots
- TakingITGlobal
- UNICEF Lesson Ideas
- United Nations: Global Schoolbus
- U.S. Dept. of Ed, Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet
pvLearners-The Collaborative Tool to Use!
pvLearners is our district online communication and collaborative tool for teachers and students.
Please use pvLearner accounts when participating in global exchanges.
Please use pvLearner accounts when participating in global exchanges.
3 comments:
We've started the REACH: MediaFest information process at Shadow!
1. I shared the idea to Business, Video and Art classes first. Kids were jazzed to make imovies and the notion of a contest. One teacher is doing this as a class project the others are offering as independent projects.
2. GenYes kids are telling classroom teachers that they will help any student that wants to submit a movie for MediaFest and/or use/integrate as a class project.
3. GenYes is creating a snazzy shared doc to be sent out to all teachers and students in pvlearners and I am drafting a note in ConnectMe conferences (to match it) to teachers.
4. We're using the MediaCenter as a pivotal point to coordinate the schoolwide effort. We have a sign-in list started for students.
5. We're posting the information NOW to parents in our Matador Mirror (School newsletter) about the entries for imovies and telling them to "Save the Date!)
There is no doubt that our students need to be prepared to compete in a world that is "shrinking" and facing many challenges never before experienced. Technology is a powerful tool to assist with this challenge. Unfortunately, educators are often faced with the challenge of not enough computers for students, computers that do not work properly, insufficient funds to maintain technology and/or update that which is outdated.
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