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Description: Since 1993, Kristi Rennebohm Franz and her colleagues at Sunnyside Elementary School in Pullman, Washington, have been using technologies like e-mail, Web sites, video editing, and videoconferencing to generate opportunities for their students to write, read, and communicate about meaningful curricular content with local and global school peers around the world. Using the International Education
and Resource Network (iEARN) to connect with K-12 schools around the world,
children in Kristi's classroom have been doing local-to-global collaborative
curricular projects in social studies, science, math, world languages,
and visual arts. All of their projects are embedded in service learning,
based on a philosophy of building human understandings that make the world
a better plac Kristi's approach is featured as
a success
story on the enGauge site. She is currently working with Washington
State University's College of Education to engage preservice teachers
in learning about this model. |
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Developer: Grade Levels: Grades 1-2 Cost: |
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Kristi Rennebohm Franz uses Harvard's
Teaching for Understanding, the (iEARN), International Education and Resource
Network philosophy, NCTM strategies
for mathematics, and a host of research-based approaches to learning in
her classroom of first and second graders. She has carefully documented
that, consistently over the years, her children meet and exceed state
and national standards in reading, writing, mathematics, science and other
academic areas. |
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"The tempo of learning at this age matches the current tempo of technology."
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