HR: 1330h
AN: ED22A-1229    [PDF]
TI: Special Education Students Improve Academic Performance through Problem-Based Learning and Technology
AU: * Freeman, S
EM: PLAY_Learn@msn.com
AF: BVSD RE2 Boulder High School, 1604 Arapahoe, Boulder, CO 80302 United States
AU: Kintsch, A
EM: kintsch@bvsd.k12.co.us
AF: BVSD, 6500 East Arapahoe, Boulder, CO 80303 United States
AB: Boulder High School Special Education students work in teams on donated wireless computers to solve problems created by global climate change. Their text is Richard Somerville's The Forgiving Air. They utilize Wheeling Jesuit University's remote sensing web site and private computer bulletin board. Their central source for problem-based learning (PBL) is www.cotf.edu, NASA's Classroom of the Future Global Change web site. As a result, students not only improve their abilities to write, read, do math and research, speak, and work as team members, they also improve self-esteem, resilience, and willingness to take more challenging classes. Two special education students passed AP exams, Calculus and U.S. Government, last spring and Jay Matthews of Newsweek rates Boulder High as 201st of the nation's top 1000 high schools.
UR: http://www.bvsd.co.us/boulderhs
DE: 1600 GLOBAL CHANGE (New category)
DE: 1610 Atmosphere (0315, 0325)
DE: 1620 Climate dynamics (3309)
DE: 1640 Remote sensing
DE: 6605 Education
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting