http://scratch.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Mon, 05 May 2008 18:05:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The 21st century graduate should be able to understand how to gather information and evaluate the information. They are confronted with vast quantities of information and will need to understand how to synthesize and analyze what they have learned. This will require them to use higher level thinking skills in ... http://scratch.edublogs.org/2008/05/05/the-21st-century-student/ The Making of A Car http://scratch.edublogs.org/2008/04/29/photostory/ Wikipedia is one of several resources that students should be encouraged to use in the classroom. Using one resource or reference book as the only source is inappropriate for an assignment. When two or three sources are required to complete an assignment, the student might discover that the resources provide ... http://scratch.edublogs.org/2008/04/29/dilemma-of-the-week-wikipedia/ Initially our school used the Internet filter system in the most restrictive way possible. Our current practice is to educate the students to use these sites more responsibly. In the past two years we have not filtered YouTube so the situation described in the lesson would not exist at my ... http://scratch.edublogs.org/2008/04/13/dilemma-of-the-week-you-tube/ My 6th graders are using a program called Scratch. The program is fairly new and there are very little advanced help documents to assist new users. I would like to use a blog so my students could become a team of “subject matter experts” by explaining how they created a ... http://scratch.edublogs.org/2008/04/06/reflections/