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About CFF

Our students live in a digital world and our schools must adapt instruction to complement learning in today’s environment. We have the opportunity and the responsibility to utilize research-based, technology-enabled practices to thrill, to inspire, and to capture the imagination of our students. Classrooms for the Future is about creating environments for deeper cognitive development through inquiry, real and relevant project-based learning, and differentiated instruction. In a Classroom for the Future, teachers are facilitators, guides, and co-investigators; students are producers, apprentices, and co-explorers. Classrooms for the Future are 21st century instructional settings using 21st century techniques to enable 21st century children to succeed.

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Mission of the Team

As a team, we are dedicated to providing student-centered learning using 21st century skills.

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Articles

21st Century Workplace_ Skills for Success
Do They Really Think Differently
Engage Me or Enrage Me
Technology, Education, and Workplace_ What Is the Link
The Interconnected Nature of the 21st Century World


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Activities

Language Arts
• MYACCESS - online writing
• Blackboard discussion board - students respond to each other pertaining to literature and other topics learned
• Keynote - Shakespeare/Elizabethan projects created
• Google Earth to visit Verona, Italy (Romeo and Juliet), Stratford-Upon-Avon (Shakespeare's birthplace)
• Blackboard used to host classroom discussions on literature, stylistic writings, and ocurse assignments and projects
• Flash, photoshop, keynote used to create book reports based on individually assigned classic novels
• Ning to create a social network for Julius Caesar. The students will make profile pages for various characters and respond to questions, comment on others' walls, etc. as a Julius Caesar character.
• Google Docs to revise one another's essays, collaborate on various projects, and receive quizzes and instructional sheets
• Easiteach to demonstrate Grammar lessons
• SubEthaEdit in the classroom for student collaboration
• iMovie to create original short films based on their original short stories
• creating podcasts of their original short stories that include pictures and sound effects
• Google Docs - Small group discussion, full class presentations, literary analysis, editing tool in writing process
• Blackboard - posting announcements, notes, presentations, submitting papers digitally
• Blogging - students have individual blogs for literary analysis journals, teacher blog hosts class discussions
• Interactive Whiteboard - interactive literary analysis - students annotate text displayed on board
• Monomyth/Hero Project - Honors English IV - full marking period project that incorporates blackboard discussions for literature circles, use of dreamweaver, weebly, iweb, lulu to create student projects

Math
• Student-created lessons posted on class Blackboard; lessons then covered independently with teacher mentoring as needed
• student-created and presented lessons; later posted on blackboard for reference and review
• Math jeopardy; Alex's lemonade stand - graphing and analyzing business expenses while raising money for charity
• Teach from home, xmeeting, polyvision equipment
• Student produced images angle activity; import images to computer and use Photoshop protrator with transform function to rotate protractor to measure angles
• PSSA review using Powerpoint
• Interactive sites where you can graph a line, able to graph lines on a grid on the polyvision board

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