January 2005 — Features
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Motivating Students Through Project-Based Service Learning
These three examples illustrate what educators have long suspected and research has confirmed: service learning and technology are both motivators for student learning. And students benefit when service learning and technology are combined in programs such as the Environmental and Spatial Technology (EAST) Initiative (Bynum 2004).
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Andrews, C., and L. Wilkins. 2001. “Environmental and Spatial Technology (EAST) Project — An Industry/Education Collaboration that Works for Females and Minorities.” Paper presented at the National Association of Minority Engineering Program Administers/Women in Engineering Program & Advocates Network Conference, 21-24 April, Alexandria, VA. Online: http://www.womenintech.com/about_research/WEPANJournal56.pdf
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EAST Initiative. Online: http://www.eastproject.org
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Th'ene, M. 2003. Phone interview by author. EAST facilitator of the Sacramento City Unified School District, West Campus High. May.
U.S. Labor Department. 1991. “What Work Requires of Schools: A SCANS report for America 2000.” June. Washington, D.C.: Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS). Online: http://wdr.doleta.gov/SCANS/whatwork/whatwork.pdf
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