Where do social action, art, music, technology, media, pop culture, and most importantly, student needs intersect?
via wbez.org Chicago Quest...Another school with gaming-based core principles.
Solving the puzzle IMAGINE a grade 6 classroom, silent but for the frenzied tapping of keyboards and the beeps and pings of screen games. It's an intense silence, more familiar to parents when children are immersed in Halo — or texting at the dinner table. But in this case they are studying a core subject at Quest to Learn, an innovative new school in New York City. Here, digital games are embraced as highly effective learning tools and the curriculum...
This should get them thinking. Nice way to validate vernacular and get them writing.
As violence and murder escalates in neighborhoods such as Watts, "Literacy is a matter of life and death. Giving students access to literacy is giving them access to many more years to their lives." -Ernest Morrell, Urban Sites Network Conference 2011, April 30, 2011
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