Put+Valley+2.0+Classroom

=Describe the Put Valley "2.0" Classroom.=

The 2.0 classroom is paperless and wireless.

This classroom is accessible from anywhere. Absences and vacations are no longer an obstacle for students involvement. Classroom resources are available 24 hours a day and seven days a week.

In the 2.0 classroom students become teachers. Students are able to access various resources that empower them to learn and assist themselves and each other.

In the 2.0 classroom students and teachers are able to communicate. On-line response allows and encourages students to fully think through their responses. Critical thinking increases because students have more time to reflect and have a deeper thought process.

More time= increased depth of reasoning

Students can scaffold ideas and expand on the ideas of other students.

The student has many venues through which to demonstrate newly acquired knowledge.

Students are exposed to ideas from other places. Exposure to global perspectives makes students better critical thinkers and prepares them to be participants in a "flat world."

Students are organized and prepared.

Students in the 2.0 classroom are learning "cyber ethics" and responsibility. Students are also learning to differentiate the difference between reliable information and non-reliable information.

THE CLASSROOM PROVIDES FREE AND FLEXIBLE ACCESS TO ALL OF THE TOOLS THAT THE STUDENTS COULD POSSIBLY WANT/NEED FOR A 2.0 VERSION OF THINGS (CAMERAS, iPODS, SPEAKERS, SCREENS, MICROPHONES, RELIABLE INTERNET SERVICE, HUGE BANDWIDTH, ETC.)

THERE IS NO CLASSROOM, JUST A COMMON MEETING PLACE ON OCCASION