Schools are in the business of education. Any successful business needs change in order to meet the needs and demands of its employees and customers. Educators need change to meet higher education standards. Students demand change, because they know that they learn best as 21st Century Learners. District 67 along with the Spirit of 67 Foundation has already taken a giant step forward toward the 21st Century Learning Model by instituting the 1:1 Netbook Program. Now that partnership is providing a space that will support this learning. The Cube will support group collaboration. foster creativity and enable communication. We in the business of education want to keep our customers happy after all.
By Jennifer Kolar Schools are in the business of education. Any successful business needs change in order to meet the needs and demands of its employees and customers. Educators need change to meet higher education standards. Students demand change, because they know that they learn best as 21st Century Learners. District 67 along with the Spirit of 67 Foundation has already taken a giant step forward toward the 21st Century Learning Model by instituting the 1:1 Netbook Program. Now that partnership is providing a space that will support this learning. The Cube will support group collaboration. foster creativity and enable communication. We in the business of education want to keep our customers happy after all.
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By: Will Zordani I am Will Z. and I am a fifth grader. I was invited on an awesome field trip with some teachers, principals, and administrators to Chicago. We went to the Merchandise Mart to see furniture and get ideas for The Cube. It was really fun looking at all the furniture. It was really cool stuff. We got to try out and look at all different furniture to see if it would work well in the cube. We met with the architects and the sales people from the different companies. My favorite company was KI and Steel Case because it had tech stuff that would be what we need. The cube needs a lot of cool furniture that is comfortable and you can still get work for class done. There needs to be neat resources for us, especially for recording and editing videos and to make sound recordings. This space is also going to be our new library. Seeing Merchandise Mart helped me to get ideas of what the furniture would be. It also helped the staff to see what students want and need for our new learning environment. Another experience I had was going to the architects firm of Perkins + Will. This was my favorite part of the trip. I got to see the architects office and view of the city. I’d love to work in a place like that some day. |
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Lake Forest, IL 60045 About This Project
"It takes a village"... to recreate a space for the 21st Century Learner. This blog is documentation of our journey of building a new, vibrant middle school learning center filled with media, print, books, technology, and mentors. Based on three of the 4C's of 21st Century Skills of Creativity, Collaboration and Communication, this center is meant to instill a love of curiosity, innovation, critical thinking and interaction with others. We have lots of people involved in our team: 21st Century Learning/Technology Specialists, Library-Media Specialists, Classroom Teachers, Fine Arts Teachers, Digital Natives--and Immigrants, Administrators AND students! Categories
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