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Joe Graba, E|E co-founder, describes the key features of nontraditional learning: motivation, customization, and maximum use of digital technologies (3 min.). Click here for the full 10 min. interview. |
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Dominique presents "Night at the Video Store," a movie he wrote, filmed, and edited for a multi-media and design course at his chartered school in Milwaukee, WI. He describes how he has learned to "put pieces together in a story and make it an art form" and credits his teacher, Karen Ambrosh, with guiding and challenging him as he hones his filming and editing skills. According to Dominique, knowing he is learning useful skills "helps [him] strive to go to college." Karen describes how she has seen Dominique grow from a student who was just interested in film into a student who is willing to "think about [his] own work and defend [his] growth."
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Margarita describes the use of a maintenance heritage language bilingual curriculum and how "it is very important because [she] can feel like [she] can express [her]self in [her] own language." She also shares how allowing the use of Spanish in the classroom has helped her acquire academically sound English language use. Kevin Kuschel, who has heard all the reasons against using a bilingual curriculum, defends its use because students at ALAS are learning academic skills in their own language and then applying them as they learn English. Judging from this experience, students' English language acquisition is then stronger, as their knowledge of it is beyond "conversational".
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Sophia presents her project—a comic book on the American Revolution. She explains how even though she previously found American History boring, this project "made me realize that the people who changed our country were actually real people, with good ideas." Pete, her advisor, comments on how the project-based format allowed him to push Sophia, an already excellent writer, to diversify her skills in that area.
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