New Class - 21st Century Learners and Leaders

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Permalink Reply by Rhonda Clark on May 14, 2009 at 7:20am

Michelle, I think this type of elective is "ground-breaking!" I'd like to know how it turns out. Good luck with pulling it together. I think our high schools could benefit from something like this but I wouldn't know where to begin. Do you have some type of book or plan to go by?

Rhonda

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Permalink Reply by Randy Hilgers on May 14, 2009 at 10:52am

Technology ... help desk.

You might want to look at our social learning project 21centurylearning.org its a spin off idea we had from our corporate help desk solutions. Last month the software and information industry association siia.com told us that our SofTutor Learning System was nominated as one of the most innovative products in education in 2009 and wanted us to build a presentation to their judges within a week. Not being up with what was going on in the educational world we called our school/university customers and asked how they use our products, with their help we realized there may be a fit for our product in schools and put together a presentation in one day using our beta testing kids.

Anyways I have permission to explore educational uses K-20 of our products. Corporate America has been using our products for training and technical support (help desk) since 1994. Over 1,400 companies in 34 different countries use SofTutor products. In 2008, we released our 3rd generation that makes it easy enough for an 8 year old to use to create content.

Let me know if you would like to try this in your classroom. Who knows maybe the high school kids could become the technology help desk for your district. SofTutor is an open learning platform, content created by SofTutor users can be shared (depending on authors content license) with other SofTutor users.

Although I'm only pitching the technology hopefully someone else can come up with the curriculum.

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