Learning in and forthe 21st century

Why 21st Century Learning?

Who Are Our Learners?

Who Are Our Learners?

21st Century Classrooms must be

21st Century Classrooms must be...

Reach out to engage ALL learners

Prepare ALL learners for 21st century life

21st Century Learning is...A combination of the 3 R's and the 4 C's!

How does technology fit in?

How does technology fit in?

Technology Supports the 4 C'sCreativity

Critical Thinking

Communication

Collaboration

Multimedia tools for expression

Beyond thinking of, thinking about

Authentic, expansive

Access to experts, colleagues, audience

From here to there

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The Giverby Lois Lowry

Designed by Jill Hubert

Jonas'Scrapbook

Journal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Souvenirs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

All images gathered from Pics4Learning and Tech4Learning.

Table of Contents

Journal

CeremonyThis is the location in which allchildren go through the ceremonialprocess. In this photo the Ceremonyof 9 is taking place and each child isreceiving their bike.

CommunityThis is an earlypicture of my fatheras a child with thecommunity

Here I am pickingflowers before goinginside the cabin tomeet with the Giver.

Cabin

Dear Asher,

I understand we have been friends sincewe first met at one of the Ceremonies.You have always had a zest for life and away to make a game out of everythingyou do. Since our Ceremony of Twelveand the designation of our futures I havebeen struggling here in the community.Your assignment of Assistant RecreationLeader is perfect for you. My assignmenthas caused some discomfort for me and Ishould not share some of thisinformation with you. With being thefuture Giver I have to hold emotionsback and memories from the communityin which I feel would enrich all of ourlives. However, the community couldnot handle the rush of emotions thatwould come flowing to them if I were torelease them. I am not sure how muchlonger I can stay in the community.

Sincerely,Jonas

Dear Jonas,

It was so cool to get a letter from youthis past week. Dude, you would notbelieve the activity I came up with forthe recreation time of the Eights. It wastotally cool. Sorry to hear about yourstruggles with becoming the newReceiver of Memories. I bet it is a lot ofresponsibility and not anything I wouldlike to take on. You are definitely acourageous individual and although Iwould miss you if you were to go toElsewhere I think it is the best solutionto your current problem. If you decideto go through with this please takeprecaution with the weather as it seemswinter is quickly approaching. What is itI can do to prepare for the rush ofmemories that will flow to me once youhave fled the community?

Sincerely,Asher

KIND

This is the bike Ireceived at theCeremony ofNine.

This is a lapel pin that was givento me by the Giver.

This is a painting I made of the placein the community where I wouldvolunteer to assist the elderly.

This is a cloth with our communityemblem embroidered in the center.

Dear Diary...

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text90459494289155158: The Giver is written from my point of view, Jonas, an eleven-year-old boy living in a futuristic society that has eliminated all pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, and there is very little competition. The society has also eliminated choice: at age twelve every member of the community is assigned a job based on his or her abilities and interests.I live with my father, a Nurturer of new children, my mother, who works at the Department of Justice, and my seven-year-old sister Lily. At the beginning of the novel, I am apprehensive about the upcoming Ceremony of Twelve, when I will be given my official Assignment as a new adult member of the community.At the Ceremony of Twelve, I am given the highly honored Assignment of Receiver of Memory. The Receiver is the sole keeper of the community’s collective memory. I receive the memories of the past, good and bad, from the current Receiver, a wise old man who tells me to call him the Giver.The Giver transmits memories by placing his hands on my bare back. The first memory I receive is of an exhilarating sled ride. As I receive memories from the Giver—memories of pleasure and pain, of bright colors and extreme cold and warm sun, of excitement and terror and hunger and love—I realize how bland and empty life in his community really is. The memories make my life richer and more meaningful, and I wish that I could give that richness and meaning to the people I love. But in exchange for their peaceful existence, the people of the community have lost the capacity to love me back or to feel deep passion about anything. I grow more and more frustrated with the members of the community, and the Giver, who has felt the same way for many years, encourages me. He and I grow very close, like a grandfather and a grandchild might have in the days before Sameness, when family members stayed in contact long after their children were grown.The Giver tells me about the girl who had been designated the new Receiver ten years before. She had been the Giver’s own daughter, but the sadness of some of the memories had been too much for her and she had asked to be released. When she died, all of the memories she had accumulated were released into the community, and the community members could not handle the sudden influx of emotion and sensation. The Giver and I plan for me to escape the community and to actually enter Elsewhere. Once I have done that, my larger supply of memories will disperse, and the Giver will help the community to come to terms with the new feelings and thoughts, changing the society forever.

text2213052304731503967: July 23, 2025Today I reflected upon my emotions and behavior and how from just a year ago my outlook on things has changed. I noticed the change happen when my father brought home the newborn, Gabriel. He was having trouble sleeping at night in the nursery, so my father brought him home to stay with us. I felt an urge to connect with him and not sure why, since our community is void of emotion. Then once I started working with the elderly in the community the feeling of connection came up again. All of these feelings came to the surface for me when I found out what my father did as his job in the community. He releases newborns that are not ideal in the eyes of the community. In other words he kills them. The same thing happens to the elderly at a certain age. A lot of this did not make sense to me until I became the new Receiver and started to work with the Giver in receiving memories. Once the memories were being instilled in me the rush of emotions that I intuitively perceived from earlier experiences meant something. From this point on I had changed and wanted to understand how our community could allow for us to live our lives without feeling love. Is love to powerful an emotion to live with?

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