Why Weave?
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Throughout the website you will find links to standards from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. The student work examples were meant to help students improve these skills in an authentic way.
Weaving With the Experts
These projects are the primary framework through which skills and understandings are learned. They are not extensions of the curriculum or extras when the required work is done. They are themselves the core of the curriculum. In the course of these projects there are usually skill lessons and traditional informational lectures as in any school. The difference is that these skills are put to immediate use in the service of an original project with high student involvement. -Ron Berger (1)
Historians don't read and memorize textbooks - they work with original sources and construct sensible narrative interpretations of historical events. If we're not giving students practice in doing the things historians actually do, in what sense are we teaching them history? -Daniel Willingham (2)
If we can all agree that students do not need our permission to have a blog when they leave the school house, then let's focus on the teachable moment. Our students need us to provide the excellent role models and the thoughtful ethics this medium demands. -Alan November (3)
As the world flattens out, more and more knowledge, information, news, software, commerce, and communities will reside on the World Wide Web. Therefore, teaching [our children] how to navigate that virtual world, and how to sift through it and separate the noise, the filth, and lies from the facts, the wisdom, and the real sources of knowledge becomes more important than ever. -Thomas Friedman (4)
If we fail to graduate students who are able to create, sustain, and participate in these networks in safe, ethical, and effective ways, we've done them a disservice. -Will Richardson (5)
Historians don't read and memorize textbooks - they work with original sources and construct sensible narrative interpretations of historical events. If we're not giving students practice in doing the things historians actually do, in what sense are we teaching them history? -Daniel Willingham (2)
If we can all agree that students do not need our permission to have a blog when they leave the school house, then let's focus on the teachable moment. Our students need us to provide the excellent role models and the thoughtful ethics this medium demands. -Alan November (3)
As the world flattens out, more and more knowledge, information, news, software, commerce, and communities will reside on the World Wide Web. Therefore, teaching [our children] how to navigate that virtual world, and how to sift through it and separate the noise, the filth, and lies from the facts, the wisdom, and the real sources of knowledge becomes more important than ever. -Thomas Friedman (4)
If we fail to graduate students who are able to create, sustain, and participate in these networks in safe, ethical, and effective ways, we've done them a disservice. -Will Richardson (5)
The website was created by Kerry Gallagher as an online portfolio of the integration of Web 2.0 applications into her high school social studies classroom during the 2009-2010 school year.
Check out Kerry's blog: KerryHawk02's Thoughts on Education.
Find Kerry on Twitter: @KerryHawk02.
Check out Kerry's blog: KerryHawk02's Thoughts on Education.
Find Kerry on Twitter: @KerryHawk02.