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The Millennial Classroom
Why Create Millennial Classrooms?
- Improve and enhance teaching and learning
- Increase student achievement
- Create an exciting, challenging and engaging environment for learning
- Provide all students with access to computers throughout the school day
- Give teachers access to relevant and current curriculum and research
- Give students the opportunity to extend learning outside the walls of the classroom
- Build closer relationships between teachers, students and parents through instant and ongoing communication
- Decrease paperwork for teachers and students through use of electronic files
- Create alternate methods of communication for students through ichat, email
- Extend learning opportunities for students by creating conditions for students to have unlimited sources of information to support learning and to be able to use the information to delve deeper into projects
- Provide authentic audience for students to share their work
- Support different styles of learning for all learners: special needs, second language, hearing disabled, gifted, and students who need assistance in subject matter
- Enable the voice of all students to be heard
- Be a leader in offering the best educational
- opportunities for all students
Who are the Millennials?
- Children of the Boomers
- Born between 1982 and 2000 they account for 27% of America’s population
- Hyper-communicators who use many means –often simultaneously--land phones, cell phones, beepers, handhelds, the Internet, email, chat rooms, instant messaging, and fax machines
The Millennial Classroom of Tomorrow
The primary use of laptops will be used to enhance teaching and learning.
Some examples are:
- 24/7 use to research relevant learning topics
- Communicate easily with teachers or administrators
- Software applications to support curriculum
- Teaching writing as a process; i.e., electronic submissions
- Project-based learning
- Assessment
- Collaboration for students to discuss relevant learning topics with each other
- Learning intervention for students with needs
- Enrichment opportunities for all students
- Professional classroom presentations
- Instant communication outside the walls of the classroom with other students in the community, state or world
- On line access with experts
- Data analysis and presentations; i.e., graphs, spreadsheets, etc.
- Access to current and relevant informationthe roles of students, teachers, staff, parents, and community members.
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