High Tech High

This is how I found this article: a Twitter post on the HTH page

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The High Tech High network mostly operates on the California per-pupil funding formula, but it chooses to allocate its money very differently from many other school systems. High Tech High School doesn’t have a football team, a library or textbooks, all pricey areas where the school saves some money. It also offers few class choices to students. Many teachers have dual credentials, allowing them to teach multiple subjects or combine subjects.

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‘...personalization at @HighTechHigh is a partnership between the teacher and student to find an authentic project that genuinely motivates students to produce meaningful work’

Interesting insight into these schools by @Kschwart http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2018/02/06/whats-so-different-about-high-tech-high-anyway/ … via @MindShiftKQED

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"Projects are the way to go"

Bill Gates

1 minute, 15 seconds in this video

This quote was featured in "The Little Book"

“Students should gain strong experience in and understanding of all aspects of an industry, including Finance, Planning, Management, Underlying principles of technology, Labor Issues, Community issues, Health and safety issues, and Environmental issues as they pertain to that industry.”

Larry Rosenstock describes at High Tech High: His full talk at www.TINYURL.com/LarryHTH

Katrina Schwartz is a journalist based in San Francisco. She’s worked at KPCC public radio in LA and has reported on air and online for KQED since 2010. She’s a staff writer for KQED’s education blog MindShift.

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‘All of this is stuff students are researching and learning about, but it’s all integrated into this project, rather than being this cold, removed, isolated content that we study for a while and then we move on to the next thing.’

Russell Walker, Humanities teacher at High Tech High

I wrote to Ben Staley and mentioned that "I'm concerned that depending on a school's site might not be the best place for long-term storage of your portfolio. What if High Tech high loses or deletes past portfolios?" His reply:

Weebly as a company seems pretty stable but I’ll never really be sure. The internet is a constantly changing place and I need to be flexible to change with it. Hopefully I won’t have to remake it anytime soon though :P

1.. I am a fairly technical person so if I had unlimited time I would design my own website. However I do not have unlimited time and weebly simply offered me a template that I liked (I am very picky). I used Adobe illustrator and Photoshop to make custom graphics and that’s about it.

2. I am not sure if my hth DP still exists unfortunately, but if you have it you can share it. You can also share the weebly one but make sure everyone knows I don’t use it right now so it’s rough :)

(I asked if it is okay to display his site: here is the link)

3. I would be interested, but I would be curious to know the requirements of want an example should look like (as mine is incomplete). Is there a certain time they need to be done? If it’s far enough out I might be able to polish it up.

(I asked if he would agree to let his portfolio be sent to the Rhode Island Department of Education, where there might be an effort to gather "exmaples of exemplary portfolios."

Additionally, if you have any advice for how I can improve my digital portfolio I am all ears. P.S. The contact page on my website does work but I would prefer email for back and fourth communication.

Thanks,

Ben

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High Tech High

‘...personalization at @HighTechHigh is a partnership between the teacher and student to find an authentic project that genuinely motivates students to produce meaningful work’

"Projects are the way to go"

Bill Gates

“Students should gain strong experience in and understanding of all aspects of an industry, including Finance, Planning, Management, Underlying principles of technology, Labor Issues, Community issues, Health and safety issues, and Environmental issues as they pertain to that industry.”

‘All of this is stuff students are researching and learning about, but it’s all integrated into this project, rather than being this cold, removed, isolated content that we study for a while and then we move on to the next thing.’

Russell Walker, Humanities teacher at High Tech High

Weebly as a company seems pretty stable but I’ll never really be sure. The internet is a constantly changing place and I need to be flexible to change with it. Hopefully I won’t have to remake it anytime soon though :P

1.. I am a fairly technical person so if I had unlimited time I would design my own website. However I do not have unlimited time and weebly simply offered me a template that I liked (I am very picky). I used Adobe illustrator and Photoshop to make custom graphics and that’s about it.

2. I am not sure if my hth DP still exists unfortunately, but if you have it you can share it. You can also share the weebly one but make sure everyone knows I don’t use it right now so it’s rough :)

(I asked if it is okay to display his site: here is the link)

3. I would be interested, but I would be curious to know the requirements of want an example should look like (as mine is incomplete). Is there a certain time they need to be done? If it’s far enough out I might be able to polish it up.

Additionally, if you have any advice for how I can improve my digital portfolio I am all ears. P.S. The contact page on my website does work but I would prefer email for back and fourth communication.

Thanks,

Ben

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