This website is the place where the standards of 21st Century Skills for Students were first made known to me. Since the beginning of the 21st century, and the advent of the world wide web, the skills needed to be considered successfully trained for the workplace have radically changed. This is a good place to start learning about the educational movement that will align public education with those needs, so our students are competitive in the global economy.
Interesting Statistic: Thirteen states are members of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills...California is not among them.
Our Vision Kids today. No previous generation has experienced anything like the current pace of transformational societal change. Yet, in light of extraordinary advancements in how we interact with each other and the world, our system of education has been frustratingly slow to adapt.
The George Lucas Educational Foundation was created to address this issue. Our vision is of a new world of learning. A place where kids and parents, teachers and administrators, policy makers and the people they serve, all are empowered to change education for the better. A place where schools have access to the same invaluable technology as businesses and universities -- where innovation is the rule, not the exception. A place where children become lifelong learners and develop the technical, cultural, and interpersonal skills to succeed in the twenty-first century. A place of inspiration, aspiration, and an urgent belief that improving education improves the world we live in.
We call this place Edutopia. And we provide not just the vision for this new world of learning but also the leading-edge interactive tools and resources to help make it a reality.
Here is just one resource that can help parents and teachers protect themselves and their students from potential hazards of the internet. This website, a collaboration of private industry and the U.S. government, provides lessons for the classroom, videos for home viewing, and a wealth of information that we all need to make our access to the internet a safer journey.
About Thinkfinity The Thinkfinity program provides quality educational resources for the K-12 teacher, and professional development that is aligned to the national educational technology standards for teachers. The free online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities, materials to help with daily classroom planning, and comprehensive search engines.
The Thinkfinity partner web sites offer resources across all grade levels and multiple curriculum areas: Arts, Economics, History, Humanities, Mathematics, Reading and Language Arts, Science and Geography.
Reel Works Teen Filmmaking is centered of the conviction that every young person has a story to tell and an important contribution to make our world. We believe that filmmaking holds within it essential disciplines of literacy, communication, creative and critical thinking, storytelling and teamwork that young people need to effectively express their unique visions. In the process they gain self-esteem, master state-of-the-art technology and are transformed from passive consumers to active creators of media. We say to teens: You have a voice. Use it!
Founded in 2001 at the Prospect Park YMCA, Reel Works is a full-time nonprofit arts organization that serves over 150 teens each year through five core programs: The Lab, The Master Class, Reel Impact, Reel Works Productions and the Summer Lab.
Amit Bernstein is the founder of Media Enrichment Academy. Amit is a veteran teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School District. He earned a Master's in Special Education and certification as an Educational Therapist from California State University, Northridge. Amit has participated in many seminars and workshops and has taken numerous courses in multimedia production, computer science, and the integration of technology into teaching. He has been a guest speaker at seminars and workshops across the country, discussing the effectiveness of teaching through the use of multimedia.
The idea for the Academy was inspired by Amit's tremendous success as a teacher seeking to integrate multimedia into his classroom curriculum. He has seen first-hand how motivated students become when they are given the chance to work on multimedia projects. His personal experience has shown that students make great strides academically, socially, and emotionally when they are taught through this medium.
Academically, Amit has discovered that once students are given the opportunity to express themselves through multimedia, they become eager to explore and research new information. They show great enthusiasm for learning about literature, language, technology, science, history, poetry, music, and art, and they exhibit higher levels of information-retention because the learning is self-motivated. Additionally, they demonstrate a vast improvement in their writing skills and reading comprehension levels. Most importantly, they develop a genuine love for learning, thinking, and creating.
Socially, some of the projects require students to work in groups, with each group member offering his or her own special contribution to the final product. Amit has seen students benefit from sharing each other's ideas and collaborating to accomplish a common goal. Students demonstrate a heightened sense of motivation to work hard and finish a task because they are part of a team.
ZAC is the first web browser developed specifically for children with autism, and autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger syndrome, pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and PDD-NOS. We have made this browser for the children - for their enjoyment, enrichment, and freedom. Children touch it, use it, play it, interact with it, and experience independence through ZAC.
ZAC is the zone that will permit your child to interact directly with games (a LOT of games) and activities (focused on MANY interests) that cater specifically to kids who display the characteristics of autism spectrum disorders, like impairments in social interaction, impairments in communication, restricted interests and repetitive behavior. ZAC has been an effective tool for kids with low, medium and high functioning autism.
ZAC focuses on the children and their interaction - But we also provide an excellent forum for parents, caretakers, teachers, and others to share their experiences, tools and resources and to unite as a caring, compassionate, and extremely knowledgeable community. It is said that "it takes a village to raise a child", and that is exponentially true for raising a child with autistic spectrum disorders. The power of your experience yesterday is going to be instrumental in helping someone successfully tackle the circumstances of today.
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