Whats your normal day in school? Is it just sitting in an uncomfortable desk listening to a teacher talk, and you taking notes? That's not much fun at all. I love the integrated learning academy because I don't sit in a deck for an half hour or longer, and just take notes. In ila we don't take many notes. The teachers give us projects that we need to use our brains for. We need to try to intertwine English, Social Studies, and Science in to one project. We've done projects like, making the design of our room that we now work in. Another project called one to one computing, we're you had to talk about which computing device best suits one to one computing.For these projects the students are usually allowed to pick how they want to set up the project. If they want to use power point on google docks, prezi, or any other presentation device.
Not only do we do projects, but we also have taken field trips. A couple field trips we've taken are going to the apple store to test out their equipment, and going to a sewer treatment plant to see how our water is cleaned. These field trips helped us out for the projects that followed the field trip.
Next year the rumor is that ILA will not be available for Sophomore and will only be available for Freshmen. I'm defiantly sad about this because I think that ILA has helped me see how to connect these subjects into one. I love that I get to work on projects with my friends, and that I get to learn in a way that I want to lean.Tho sometimes we sit in a class room for an extreamly long period of time, that's school. You just have to deal with it.
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