Project L21C Overview
Project LEARN/21C is comprised of a five-member Massachusetts consortium that includes Salem State College (SSC); the cities of Everett, Malden, and Medford; and the Tri-City Technology Education Collaborative (TRITEC). The project will focus on:
- the creation of an effective curriculum/technology integration model for K-12 schools that involves teacher team development of interdisciplinary, web-based, project-based units (PBUs) that use the Internet as the primary resource for the completion of student PBU tasks. (Teams are comprised of preservice, and mentor district teachers, and SSC faculty.);
- the implementation of these PBUs in K-12 classrooms by participating preservice and veteran teachers;
- the training of project participants in the use of web-based software to capture that implementation to determine PBU impact on student achievement; and
- the use of the PBU model as a catalyst for changing the SSC School of Education’s ability to integrate technology throughout their courses and in the field training of their teachers...
Project LEARN/21C is funded through a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Preparing Tomorrow’s Teacher’s to Use Technology program. Total project cost is $2,722,083, with the federal government providing $1,306,208 (48%) and project partners contributing 1,415,875 (52%).
