Connecting Vermont students with dairy farms
There’s more math, biology, and chemistry than you’d think. It’s a wintry morning in one of the coldest Februarys in
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The Cabot School
Real World: Cabot
Rural life and project-based learning You might find students on the skating rink in front of the school, helping out
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All about service learning
with Katy Farber From real and relevant to what to do in the event of a mountain bike accident, the
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Using student TED Talks to showcase learning
TED Talks are short, personal powerful storytelling. Now: how can students use this medium as motivation to learn, to explore
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Introducing “Cabot Leads”
Use service learning to grow your community What do you do when you’re a 5th-through-8th middle school housed in two
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Conversations begin at home. And at the bus stop. Also the market. And– So much of the change we need
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Student TED Talks, sound sculptures and a funk band
Student exhibitions of project-based learning At this point we all know how important it is for students to share project-based
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Read moreBeyond the audience of one
Why digital composition matters I’d like you to think back to your days as a student. What kinds of writing
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Culminating Events for Project-Based Learning
Honor scholars with an authentic audience for their work The culminating event! It’s the lovely finish line of a Project-Based
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3 types of videos for showcasing content areas
Structures & examples for student filmmakers Many students love working with video. Students can create videos for any subject to
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Use Thinglink to explore identity
Creating and sharing digital selves I’m participating in Thinglink’s Summer VR Challenge, and the first exercise in the challenge is
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How mobile devices can enhance field trips
Deepen place-based learning and boost emotional engagement Having signed the permission slips, helped raise money, converted US dollars to Canadian,
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Q is for QR codes
QR codes unlock learning anywhere These simple workhorses of technology — ink and blank spaces on a screen or page — can
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What can educators do with Google Hangout? Much like being friends on social media, physical proximity has little to do
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4 amazing things afoot at The Cabot School
So many schools in Vermont are engaged in innovative, student-centered, tech-rich education work.We’re proud to partner with The Cabot School
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Hack your classroom: flexible physical learning environments
Flexible learning environments have a physical component — and effect Do you recognize the object at left? Does it look like a
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How to: showcase community interviews with digital tools
Meet the digital anthropologists of Cabot, Vermont In fulfillment of their project-based learning research this past spring, this pair of
Read more“See America”: Cabot students share their PBL research
Project-based learning is alive and well in rural Vermont As part of The Cabot School‘s Exhibition of Learning earlier this
Read moreThink outside the app: 3 outstanding examples of app-smashing
What-smash? Despite sounding like a weird potato-fruit dish, app-smashing gets your students thinking less about apps and more about tasks. Hopefully
Read moreJust say no to dinosaurs
Out at Cabot last Friday to interview some students and teachers about their amazing Seedfolks project, I was reassured to
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