The Coalition of Lighthouse Schools

Our Mission: The Coalition of Lighthouse Schools exists to create a dynamic learning community of schools that is utilizing one-to-one computing to empower students and teachers to lead in the twenty-first century.

One To One Learning

Girls Working On Movie Project

Today’s generation of students looks at technology as part of their everyday environment. To fully meet their needs, technology should be pervasive and always available. In 1 to 1 learning, each student has access to a wireless laptop to use at school and at home, enabling communication and collaboration among peers and teachers, and connecting parents to their children’s learning. And educators are provided digital tools to create learning plans, manage educational content, track student progress, and more.

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Students Share Their Thoughts

I learned a lot about technology in this project and also about teamwork. Some other things I learned were movie making, poetry, creativity, and freedom to work independently on a big project. On our computers we learned how to work with iMovie…We had to explore and figure out how things worked. I learned how to join clips together, cut clips, and add sound. iMovie helped us on our project because we messed up a lot but we could cut it out or fix it. Working in teams was a great experience. I liked how we each had different responsibilities and roles…One of my favorite things in this project was how the movie was our own and how we were independent. This was an awesome project!

— Allison, 5th grade, St. Paul Christian Academy

This year in ARTech we did a video. We learned how to film and work the camera. It was a fun project because you got to choose what your movie was about and just the students made it. While we were working and making the video, we also learned teamwork. Teamwork means that we worked hard and had our own personal roles in making the movie. Creativity was another important part of making the movie. We had to be creative about cropping out what scenes should be cropped and which ones should be kept. Editing our movie was very hard. It was a long process deciding which music and sounds should be put in the film. Another part of editing was listening to other’s opinions on what would make the movie better. We had to have a poem that went with our movie. The poem wasn’t a rhyming poem; it was Hebrew parallelism. Hebrew parallelism is two lines with similar or related ideas. An example in my poem was “Sprinting down the field, running very fast.” Running very fast is similar to sprinting down the field…

— Eric, 5th grade, St. Paul Christian Academy

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Its official: The Ensworth School in Nashville will host the 6th annual iSummit — July 9-12, 2008.

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Reflections on iSummit
Earl from Echo Horizon School has just put together his thoughts about this years iSummit in Atlanta. Download...
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Julene Reed - Friday Keynote
Opening activity by Mark Benno - top ideas for enabling students in a “Flat World” Thinking Globally Why should we...
Dr. Tim Tyson - Thursday Kenote
These are just some ideas… I love to think different Its all about perspective - (The Phantom Tollbooth - example) Perspective...

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