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This page houses your actual project brief. Here it is ...

The Ministry of Education and the developers of the Stonefields site have commissioned your group to provide a proposal for the type of school that should be developed in the new subdivision. The class will be split into four teams who will compete to have their proposal accepted by the "board" of the new development. Specifically your proposal must consider the following:
 * what should the "learning environment" look like at the school, and why?
 * what subjects should be taught, and why?
 * how will the new technologies as described in the Horizon Report of 2009 affect the learning opportunities offered?
 * how will the community be involved with the school?
 * how is the special character of the area catered for in your plan?

Your proposal will be supported by a detailed scale model of your plan, and with detailed models developed in Google Sketchup and Google Earth. You will need to consider the specific requirements for all academic and extra-curricular options in your proposal. This may include the types of building, building materials, sound implications, visual implications and so on. You will need to show significant research to support your suggestions as well as introduce any new or creative ideas your team will have.

Your proposal should be accompanied by a detailed web site which can be used to promote your plans and concepts to the wider community as well as to the development board.

On the last day of the project, your project team will make a formal presentation to the board. This presentation will be up to 45 minutes in length and must include detailed information of all aspects of your work.


 * TEAMS:

Team 1:** Angel, Katey, Chelsee, Amy, Shahana, Aiya, Christie
 * Team 2:** Sarah, Holly, Evie, Vanessa. Lucia, Josie, Gabrielle
 * Team 3:** Anabel, Monique //(Leader)//, Deanna, Kim, Paige, Julia, Jen
 * Team 4:** Ashlee, Lita, Issy, Divya, Gemma, Alex, Alice

=Detailed Information:=

1. Emerging Technologies and the Horizon Report K-12 2009
Your work with these technologies forms one of the most important parts of your project. The development of new technologies allows for students and teachers to create completely new ways of learning and teaching. Your task is to look at each of the 6 technologies over the 3 "time horizons" and to make some clear links to how these technologies might be used forteaching your subjects in the future. As an example of what I mean, the last class did some similar work for some different technologies. Now - their overall project was quite different from your, but this aspect was the same. Here are 2 links to some of their work to give you an idea of the sort of thing you might do.

a. Technology was "data mashups". Rebecca and Milli chose a theme based around vampires for their exploration of this technology and then related this theme and their technology to a number of subject areas - including developing examples. Their work is here. b. Technology was "collaboration webs". Ashley and Vanessa did an excellent job of describing their technology and gave lots of examples of it, and then proceeded to link the use of their technology in a wide range of subjects. Their work is here.

NOTE: The above was just one technology - you have all six to do. BUT - you don't need to link each technology with each subject - you must have a connection between each technology and at least one subject. You should NOT use the same subject for all of your technologies.

In other words, to get a reasonable score for this section you must describe/define each technology, which includes giving examples of them and how they work. You then need to look in detail about how this technology will help learning your subject by examining a specific topic that is taught (or should be taught - remember, it can be a new topic!) This is where you are likely to have to talk witrh your subject teachers to help you sort out your ideas.

You will do the same thing for each of the 6 technologies, but using a different subject for each technology. [You can cover more than 1 subject with each technology if you wish - that scores higher marks.]