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Project Focus
The USCT
project will use technology tools to engage students and teachers
beyond the
static content contained in textbooks to the exploration of real
teaching and real learning within
the science community. Support for this concept is emerging from the
K-12 education
community as indicated by the following: Technology lends itself to
exploration. But before
we can use it effectively, we need to value exploration as real
teaching and real learning. We
need to recognize that if students are writing about what they are
learning, if they are
investigating and asking questions, if they are doing it in an
authentic context, then clearly they
are learning how read and write and think. The biggest difference,
the one that might scare us, is
that when students explore there is no one right answer (Schrum
2003). To deliver these
concepts as acceptable pedagogy within the K-12 community, USCT
project will work with the
six sites to explore project- and problem-based learning design
strategies. Students and teachers
will spend learning time exploring problems, asking questions and
designing theories related to
the complex nature of watershed science and decision-making.
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