Carmen+&+Jennifer

**Learning Communities and Technology in High School**


 * Essential Question-**Connections, relationships, community?

How do we represent ourselves both virtually and online? How do we connect/formulate sustainable relationships? How do we protect the members of our community? Who am I? What is my role in the community?
 * Unit Questions-**

What is the difference between norms and rules? What do we need to do to stay safe online? (Social Issue) In what ways can we use our technology as a learning tool/ how do we care for our technology?
 * Content Questions-**

Community Building Norms vs Rules Managing a classroom with computers
 * Concepts:**


 * Criteria for Success**:

Using Intel Tools we hope to create a lesson, which will assist high school teachers with building community in their classrooms. We hope to explore impact new technology, such as student computers, may have on classroom community. We plan to use the current Learning Communities and Technology module along with Intel Tools to assist high school teachers with developing strategies for community building and preparing their students and classrooms for computers.

I am more confused than when I started. I am beginning to think the students will use the seeing reason to help determine what creates and destroys communities. I think the visual ranking tool could be used to help students develop norms. I am curious how I will apply this as a trainer of teachers as opposed to being a teacher.

Ummm Yeah, I am not sure how this lesson is going to look. I have lots of ideas for the tools, I just don't know which ones to go with and how to make them all go together. The tools are good, the key is in the question.