(14:ciutone Keystone AEA and JCISD Supports
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4JCISD CONNECTED Classrooms
An Educational Service Agency 2013
The Iowa Core emphasizes the importance of not only connecting
students but engaging them in collaborative opportunities.
21st Century Skills> Technology Literacy
Essential Concept and/or skill Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others
employing a variety of digital environments and media.
Use digital media and environments
to communicate and work Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple
collaboratively, including at a distance, audiences using a variety of media and formats.
to support individual learning and
contribute to the learning of others. Develop cultural understanding and global awareness by
engaging with learners of other cultures.
OAppropriately contribute to project teams to produce
original works or solve problems.
And, the most difficult part is… GETTING CONNECTED!
MYSTERY SKYPE
Sign up by September 27, 2013 COMMUNITY OF WRITERS
October 2013
Begin connections with this
Authentic audience, authentic
“Where in the world is…”
writing. Using blogs as a publishing
experience. platform, its easy to collaborate
and share learning.
0 VIDEO STORY PROBLEMS
November/ December 2013 DIGITAL BOOK TRAILERS
Bored with dull story problems? February 2014
Reader’s Unite!
Create video story problems,
Recommend books to other students
brainstormed and produced
through a book trailer. How convincing
by students. will your trailer teaser be?
0 WEATHER WONDERS
March 2014 SERVICE LEARNING
A classic conflict: Person vs. Nature April 2014
Join weather experts as they help Sometimes all it takes to make a
classrooms understand and discover difference is creativity and a little
weather wonders. elbow grease. What will your students
support, change, and/or do?
For more information and to sign up to participate, visit www.aea1.k12.ia.us or http://goo.gl/nAgsS.
Contact Bev Berns (bbernsameatk12.ia.us) or Kim Powell (Kim.Powell5bedford.k12.mi.us)
if you have questions.
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