Flex Tools
Asynchronous assets
High Tech High flex
High Tech High flex will open for 9th grade students in fall 2010.
Synchronous activity
Student networking
Aleks
Fast For Word
MIT video lectures
CMU statistics course; physics problem solver
Flexbooks
teacher created videos
student created videos
adaptive technologies
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/home/teachers/index.htm
http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/forstudents/freecourses
http://www.ck12.org/flexr/
Learning management systems
http://moodle.org/
HTHflex will be physically located at the High Tech High Point Loma Village
Students will not be required to come to school physically a set number of days
HTHflex may have a 1-2 week in person orientation in August
HTHflex will likely have in person evening exhibitions and/or presentations of learning once per semester.
Students who prefer a homeschool + model
Competitive athletes
Students who are behind and need to catch up
Students who are ahead and want more challenge
FAQs
Where?
When?
Who?
College
Career
Community
What's the "flex" in HTHflex?
Why Flex?
There are students who would like to go to High Tech High who currently are unable to do so.
Online schools are plentiful, yet many replicate a traditional view of teacher and learner
Developing HTHflex will help us to develop tools that improve our existing schools; we will try out tools in our existing schools that improve HTHflex.
Also, Larry thinks it's cool
Prepare all students for college
Develop students able to participate in a healthy democracy
Why do 18 year olds in June need a bathroom pass?
but 18 year olds in August can sleep in their dorm room all day?
All students complete University of California A-G requirements
because no one should find out that they don't have the option to go to college
All students take a college class while still enrolled at HTHflex
online?
All HTHflex students visit various colleges over the four years
and realize, "this could be me."
Help students to lead a productive career
job shadows
internships
and they realize, "this could be me."
engage in community service projects
arts and cultural experiences
do academic projects connected to their local community
http://staff.hightechhigh.org/~dberggren/projects-EPICS.php
How do we create experiences where students interact with a teacher and each other in real time?
forums
blogs
chat
IM
other tools
weebly?
ning?
facebook?
google sites?
dim dim?
elluminate?
Press the tab key or click on the arrow below to cycle through the presentation.
Students will have some flexibility to learn what they want and how they want.