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=A Revolution in Education:=

The most ambitious of all, so far, is #6.
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Projects Include 1. Build an Essay In this wiki, over 100 6th grade students collaborated to create essays about the U.S. Constitution and the First Five Presidents. 2. Build a Story In this wiki, students collaborate to create a series of "choose your own adventure stories." Each choice is written by a different student. 3. Fix a Wiki: In this wiki, students were given a series of paragraphs over time that were riddled with mistakes and errors (both grammatical and contextual). Students work with each other to “clean” the paragraphs up. They were given 15 minutes everyday to fix the paragraphs. 4. Build a Law: 25 students were given three weeks to design and collaborate on improving the school is some meaningful way. They discussed problems, were divided into interest groups or committees, asked to negotiate, debate and most importantly to compromise on ideas. The result was seven separate bills or proposals that hundreds of students voted on. To see how the voting poll is going click on 'voting results.' 5. Every year, we history teachers hand out a rediculously long 70 questions test review sheet. Instead of having each student answer the 70 questions I allowed each student to answer 3 questions. They then had to upload their answers to the this Wiki. Once done, the students could double check the answers and edit the wiki. 6. Build a Wikipedia: 100 students all working together to build an online encyclopedia for 6th grade US History.