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Current Directions in Curriculum and Instruction
Afterthoughts... I thought we might throw a page up here for post course reflections and communications. It might be a way for us to keep in touch without having to go searching for new additions in the various nooks and crannies of our wiki. If you continue to add things to your "personal" space, just direct us there from the afterthoughts area. Oh, and by the way, here's that link to teacher Paul Anderson's Central Park East High School wiki and the [|student writing].



The intensity of project day !

Introduction
The Current Directions course is a launching platform for new students in the Masters Program in Curriculum and Instruction of UVM's Department of Education. It is also a course where any student of education can become better informed of evolving trends in the design and organization of teaching and learning relationships for children and youth in America's schools.

This summer, 261 will be taught utilizing one of the newer evolving forms of technology. Technology can be used to create informative but static websites (Web 1.0), and technology can be used to create interactive on-line work places where learners have full read and comment access to each other's work (Web 2.0). I'd like to use such a space during this course so that we might build a knowledge base over our ten days together that reflects our best inquiry into "current directions in curriculum and instruction." Your instructor is not a specialist in various forms of web-based learning. I am convinced, however, that some of the [|knowledge we build together] will survive whatever I might try to do "to you" to enlighten you as to my own convictions about current trends. I think a wiki will serve us well in terms of (1) how this particular environment will urge our own particular collaborations and (2) what me might learn about using the wiki environment in our own classrooms, be they public school or university based. I'm excited to be embarking on this wiki adventure. I hope you it becomes so for you!

Charlie Rathbone, Ph.D. 537 Waterman crathbon@uvm.edu 802-656-3356 IM cbone60



Daily Schedule
Mon. July 17, Tue. July 18, Wed. July 19, Thu. July 20, Fri. July 21 Mon. July 24, Tue. July 25, Wed. July 26, Thu. July 27, Fri. July 28

Nightly Readings
I'd like to suggest we all read all the chapters but that pairs of people be responsible for leading discussion on the chapters each day. Discussion should focus on pulling out the big ideas and enacting "moves" of each chapter.


 * 1) for Tuesday 7/19: Ch. 4 and 9, Richardson.
 * 2) for Wedsday 7/20: Ch. 1, 2, 3, M&T
 * 3) for Thursday 7/21: Ch. 4, 5, 6 M&T
 * 4) for Monday, 7/24: Ch. 7, 8, 9, 10 M&T
 * 5) for Tuesday, 7/25: Ch. 1, 2, 3 Cohen
 * 6) for Wednesday, 7/26: Ch. 4, 5 Cohen
 * 7) for Friday, 7/28: Ch. 6, 7, 8 Cohen

Who are we?
These project titles are approximations. You are in the driver's seat! Charlie Mr. Rogers Leroy Digital Storytelling: Haiti Bikerdude The Disconnect of Virtual Communities Ima Lost Tools to Work With Short-Term Memory Learning (Mel Levine) Roxxy Digital Storytelling: Haiti Mrs. B Fabrics, Wikis, and Three Times Over Jamboree Connecting Cultures: A Jamaican Case Study

What are the current directions?
What are the things going on in schools and classrooms today that affect the way teachers and learners relate to each other? (List as was stated in class.)

What are the things going on in schools and classrooms today that affect the way teachers and learners relate to each other? (List grouped and categorized by Charlie.)

What is expected of me?
Studenting and Professional Obligations

How will my work be graded?
1.0 Studenting 2.0 Professional Obligations 2.1 Creating a Project 2.2 Technology: Becoming More Technologically Proficient 2.3. Current Trends: development of your knowledge base relative to [|Groupwork] and Differentiation