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__ Learning in the 21st Century __ __ Wed. January 21st __

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I would like to have a digital record of what work you are most proud of this semester. What did you create? What did you accomplish? What did you learn? I don't know the best way to organize or present this. I am hoping one of you will discover something that will allow each person to showcase his or her accomplishments. =====

Last night at the orientation, one of the parents talked about a programming environment that is free and teaches the basics of programming in an easy to learn way. The program is called Alice. It can be found at Alice.org. You will need to download some files but I encourage you to check it out if you are at all interested in programming. I have not had a chance to check it out myself yet.

Thank you for a good work day yesterday. I appreciate the positive report from the reserve teacher. If you actually read this message, come and get a piece of candy from me.

Use your time to work on your project or work on your speech project, listed below:

The World is my Audience

For this project, everyone must participate. Imagine that you have the ear of the entire world. Imagine that your video will be on youtube and that all 7 billion people on the planet will see it. What message would you deliver?

Please treat this seriously. While you can add some humor or effects, I want you to come up with an important message that all people should hear. This should be 2 - 5 minutes in length.

You may record your message or deliver it live. Use the ipad2 or a mac. This is due before break so gauge your time accordingly. I would like to have people start presenting their speeches as they finish.

__itunes U__ You are to use the ipads to go to itunes U. In case you aren't familiar, itunes U has thousands of university courses online and available for free viewing. There is an amazing amount of information available.

I would like you to find THREE clips that you find interesting. For TWO of them write a couple sentences explaining what the clip was about.

For ONE of them, I would like you to watch the clip in its entirety and then write a few paragraphs explaining what you learned AND what questions you have.

__ Economics Unit __

__**Money**__

1) What are the uses for money? Why do we use money? @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmGeXRBHuEo

@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfoQaNB4s-o Monday: Why do we use money?

2) Samples of money Tuesday: Samples of U.S.Money Wednesday: Samples of World money

3) Protecting against counterfeiting @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D5P_jQrkLc

@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k77h5ljBJa0

Thursday: Discuss counterfeiting.

4) Credit / loans 5) Scams

__**Investing**__ 1) Stock Market basics 2) CDs 3) Precious metals

__**Economic Terms**__ 1) Inflation 2) Recession 3) Depression

Stock Market Game

We will have two check in times for the competition. * December 21st, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. * January 25th, 2012 at 1:30 p.m.  Whoever has the highest **dollar amounts** at those times will win a small prize.

Using the solution fluency, write or type up the six D's to demonstrate that you understand the fluency. [|Solution Fluency]