Visualizing information and Envisioning New Schools - TTT 203 - 06.02.10
Posted by Paul Allison on 29th June 2010
Visualizing information and Envisioning New Schools - TTT 203 - 06.02.10 [58:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadFor this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we asked Suzie Boss to come on to help us have a conversation with:
- an amazing young high school student who has developed his own project-based learning by creating info-graphics.
- a dynamic teacher who has been working all year to help open a new public school in East Brooklyn.
We learned a lot, both about visualizing information and about integrating technology into a new, alternative school.
Michael, Amazing Student
Chris Sloan joined us with one of his amazing students, Michael, from Judge Memorial High School in Salt Lake City. Michael has a blog called Graph the Info.
Click on this image to see a recent post where Michael explains his creative process:
Charlie, Dynamic Teacher
We were also joined by Charlie Freij a teacher we meet in the New York City Writing Project’s Advanced Summer Institute last year. Charlie has been working this year to create a new school, East Brooklyn Community High School, in Canarsie. And his students have been using Youth Voices.
East Brooklyn Community High School is a small, academically rigorous high school that is committed to preparing students for college, meaningful employment, healthy personal and family relationships and participation in the life of their communities. East Brooklyn Community High School is a transfer school that is designed to help students who have fallen behind in credit accumulation get back on track and earn a high school diploma. East Brooklyn Community HS is a collaboration between the DOE and SCO Family Services; our curriculum and programs build on SCO’s comprehensive range of neighborhood and community based services that sustain families and children. The academic program will utilize innovative and project based instructional strategies that prepare students to pass Regents exams and develop the skills needed for post secondary options.
We hope you enjoy this podcast, and that you will join us each Wednesday this summer as we develop curriculum together that will address the BP Gulf Oil Atrocity.
Go to EdTechTalk to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.
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