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  Homework Helper for Teacher-Graders: Free Auto-Scoring Essays

  What about a site where kids can type in their essays and get automated immediate rubric-based feedback about their writing style, use of conventions, and content relevance? Teachers would be expert scorers who would "tune" the engine over time and with more and more well-scored examples, the engine would give better and better advice to young writers. This idea has two customers - teachers and students! Content specificity ...more »

  What about a site where kids can type in their essays and get automated immediate rubric-based feedback about their writing style, use of conventions, and content relevance? Teachers would be expert scorers who would "tune" the engine over time and with more and more well-scored examples, the engine would give better and better advice to young writers. This idea has two customers - teachers and students! Content specificity would grow as a particular "essay prompt type" developed a large body of scored examples.

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  Expert Teachers as Game Masters & National Faculty

  This idea is to create a human infrastructure that stands behind a large-scale game-challenge platform in every subject area. Each subject would have a small number of highly powerful games that students of a particular age might engage with each year - (e.g. in New South Wales, AUS there is an environment game that over 40,000 youth play each Fall, which concerns the country's ecological zones). The core faculty are ...more »

  This idea is to create a human infrastructure that stands behind a large-scale game-challenge platform in every subject area. Each subject would have a small number of highly powerful games that students of a particular age might engage with each year - (e.g. in New South Wales, AUS there is an environment game that over 40,000 youth play each Fall, which concerns the country's ecological zones). The core faculty are actually "game masters" and serve the teachers as classroom-based PD that is just in time to support the needs of each student group's solution-forming experience. Imagine a few of these powering the backbone of the curriculum!

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  A Game-based Simulation that Improves Teaching

  What about a game-based simulation of a classroom that can take the form and shape of any classroom anywhere, and can provide a teacher with a virtual training ground and practice space? It would be a teacher flight simulator, with virtual students who act and behave like real students, which would give teachers (and aspiring teachers) a chance to experiment with new methods, tasks, and approaches to relationships with ...more »

  What about a game-based simulation of a classroom that can take the form and shape of any classroom anywhere, and can provide a teacher with a virtual training ground and practice space? It would be a teacher flight simulator, with virtual students who act and behave like real students, which would give teachers (and aspiring teachers) a chance to experiment with new methods, tasks, and approaches to relationships with students?

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  Design Challenges for Kids That Solve Real-World Problems

  Students (especially from middle grades up) can self-form global teams and create innovative, real solutions to global problems using technology as a platform to communicate, create and share. Designs can include 3D fabrication of real objects, which can then be tested and played with in remote locations, then improved and re-designed and shared again. Incentives for winning solutions can include technology (e.g. iPads, ...more »

  Students (especially from middle grades up) can self-form global teams and create innovative, real solutions to global problems using technology as a platform to communicate, create and share. Designs can include 3D fabrication of real objects, which can then be tested and played with in remote locations, then improved and re-designed and shared again. Incentives for winning solutions can include technology (e.g. iPads, Mobile phones), money invested for future college (this is the best!), and as important, letters of recommendation and help and support to use the contest as a springboard to further inquiry, problem-solving and international cooperation among students. Global challenges are exciting for kids to tackle - and they have have no fear and lots of good ideas about them, which technology infuses and leverages!

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