The students participated with classes sitting in the hallway, crammed around the only computer in the school with a modem connected to the principal's phone. To make a long story short, the parents began fund raising and now we have a T1 line to our school and a computer and the Internet in every classroom. Quests are Proven Recently Classroom Connect joined with SRI, a third-party research organization, to learn more about how to ensure that Quests are used effectively in the classroom and what kinds of learning outcomes can be achieved. The design strategies Classroom Connect has integrated into a recent Quest seemed to increase the proportion of students who are actively engaged in meaningful reasoning on complex, open-ended questions, an important ingredient for the development of the inquiry skills demanded by recent standards in curricular disciplines. The responses of some classrooms also indicated a problem-solving process that suggests specific evidence needed in order to complete a path of analysis, which is a very sophisticated level of reasoning, particularly for elementary school children.
Educators see the proof in their own classrooms.
In my work as a teacher, social studies supervisor, curriculum consultant, and assistant principal, I have often pondered a vision of the ideal learning situation. In this ultimate experience, students would be actively involved in learning content, skills, and attitudes in an integrated setting. Both the teacher and the students would be working together to solve real problems that genuinely affect the lives of people. Experts would provide the text and real events, the literature. The vision is now available to students all over the world.