Posted on September 27th, 2006 at 8:02 pm by fran25 and
I visited the New Century School House and I was expecting to find a set up similar to TappedIn, but all I found was informative information. I didn’t find any activities, or links within a classroom. Furthermore, there were very few rooms established in each age category. I tried to adopt one of these classrooms, but the school house didn’t want to take my information–it may have been my description of the room, or my working information (the site might call for a teaching occupation). Nevertheless, I figured out that these rooms, in this particular school house, are designed to demonstrate how learning is supposed to be in the 21st century. This is where you are expected to think “outside of the box,” which is often times very difficult to do. In addition, there are spaces for people to comment on your room and you can edit it very easily by entering your password and making the changes. From what I gathered, I don’t think this site is designed to provide links and assignments for a community of learners, but instead it is used to portray the message of what should be included in the classrooms of the 21st century. Therefore, this site is giving educators a chance to place the traditional classroom behind them and it allows for a trip into the classroom of the future.