Goals

toc =Goals (Adapted from some of David Warlick's Work)=

1. __Individual Learning Strategy__ / __Learning Environment__

Individual blogs and wikis will be developed by students. Within these blogs and wikis, they can explore what interests them in our current curricular area.

2. __Learning Literacy__ (The 4 E's) Students must find two confirming sources for information directly included within their class projects, personal blogs, and wikis. These sources must be cited using MLA format- [|Using David Warlick's Citation Machine] Students will work together collaboratively to create, obtain, find, and re-mix information through the wiki and other class projects. Students will create podcast, videos, wikis, mash-ups in various forms, etc. to express their ideas and information in dynamic ways. The truth in information matters. What a student writes, says, etc. matters. We are all part of a global community of information. This will be addressed in a variety of ways through our projects and group work.
 * A. Exposing Truth about Information (What is true and what isn't?)
 * B. Exploying Information (How can we use information collaboratively and in different ways to make it powerful?)
 * C. Expressing Ideas in a Compelling Way (Creativity...Creativity...Creativity)
 * D. Ethics as a Foundation of Learning Literacy (Your space is my space...and that includes the Internet. Information is power and it shouldn't be abused.)

3. __Creativity and Individual Expression__

There is no one best way to do things... Be Yourself...Design...Explore Your Interests...

**My Goals:**

 * Provide an exciting curriculum and classroom for my students.
 * Provide students with an appreciation of the process of science.
 * Teach science by "doing" science and modeling the scientific process.
 * Be an open, honest, and "real" role model for students.
 * To hep them figure out how they best learn and how they can design their own learning strategies and environments.