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Seal of Alignment: Open World Learning (OWL)

Open World Learning's Student Curriculum

Seal of Alignment for Proficiency Statement:
The International Society for Technology in Education completed a Seal of Alignment for Proficiency Review of OpenWorld Learning's Student Curriculum on December 13, 2011. ISTE determined that this curriculum clearly supports implementation of the ISTE NETS for Students (NETS•S 2007) in a carefully reviewed and documented manner and prepares students at the proficiency level for the following NETS•S indicators:

1a, 1b, 2d, 3a, 4b, 6a, 6d

Resources Specifications

	130 hours of contact per student
	Novice or intermediate technology skill required
	Sequenced curriculum
	Face to face, online facilitated, self-directed, and student-led implementation strategies
	Embedded Teacher Training Guide

OpenWorld Learning (OWL) supports children's school success by tapping the power of digital technology and peer teaching to develop leadership and ignite a love of learning.

Elementary After–School Program Grades 3rd–5th
OWL's original program engages students through the use of an innovative technology-focused curriculum. Students are able to expand their reading, writing, math, and NETS•S skills and learn advanced technology skills by creating projects in MicroWorlds—a multimedia authoring tool and computer programming language developed at MIT

Middle School After–School Program Grades 6th–8th
The middle school program is divided into distinctive "Techno Tracks" designed to engage and instruct students. This program teaches technology with an open-ended approach, which supports the development of problem-solving and NETS•S skills, as well as meta-cognition through reflection and feedback. OWL keeps an inventive, hands-on learning approach to curriculum that enables learning by imagining, building, testing, and sharing with peers and teachers.