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| Name: | Linda Ullah |
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| School/Institute: | Edenvale Elementary School |
| Position: | Teacher of GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) students at Edenvale Elementary School. For the past several years this program has been taught as cooperative group project based learning. We operate a virtual company called Edenvale Productions. Student projects are guided and facilitated but students are the ultimate creators of content. For several years groups of students created a variety of products under the auspices of a local history project called The Great Edenvale Detective Caper. Project teams designed shoe factories that would be appropriate for a Mars Colony and created rather creative, short video pitches to pitch their concepts to the Board of Directors. My concepts are, at this point still very broad, allowing for student and teacher planning and collaboration before final projects are selected and planned. Technology Learning Coordinator, The Blossom Valley Learning Consortium |
| City and Country: | San Jose, California USA |
| Proposed Project: | Would leverage local histories and ecological concerns to bring about cultural understanding between the students who are collaborating on this project as well as real solutions for the ecological problems facing the world. Many of the emerging nations were once colonies of the more industrial nations. The United States was also colonized by European nations during the 17th and 18th centuries. I can see some parallels of history students working collaboratively would discover. I see the problems of pollution, over population, endangered species as being universal problems. |
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| Web Site: | California Classroom Historians' Home Page |
