What is JournalXR?
JournalXR is a peer-reviewed academic journal for your school or district. JournalXR enables students to build a portfolio of published work, and allows them to explore and share their niche interests in an academic setting. This allows students to use their unique knowledge and interests to set themselves apart from their peers, and show that they are more than simply a letter grade.
Along with benefits to the students publishing, JournalXR also gives students a chance to experience and exercise leadership as part of an editorial team, reviewers, copy editors and in some instances as editors.
How can JournalXR benefit your students?
Provide more value to student projects
- JournalXR establishes itself in the school market as a distinctive educational means for students to take full advantage of new technologies and resources in producing work that meets college and future ready standards including, but not limited to Common Core, IB and Competency Based Education.
- High school journalism programs, which are locally run without a common publishing platform, while providing students with writing and publishing opportunities. JournalXR has a greater emphasis on research, going deeper into concepts and relationships through our peer review publication platform, while providing the journal publishing experience and awareness.
Personalized academic experience
JournalXR simplifies the adoption of a personalized academic experience by academic and professional enterprises and addresses relevant challenges facing high schools today including, but not limited to:
- The need for increased participation in STEM areas, especially among girls.
- The Desire to more effectively utilize vast and growing internet knowledge resources.
- Concerns over adequacy of students’ critical information literacy skills.
- Dissatisfaction with textbooks with growth of Open Educational Resources (OER).
- Interests in updating science fairs (“not so fair”) and international pen-pals.
Experience operating journals in the classroom
Students conducting their studies, as well as operate peer-review journals within a classroom setting, or on a school-, district- or state-wide basis, as well as on an international scale. JournalXR provides students with educational advantages in using integrated and intuitive software solutions to guide students through ideation, concept development, and publication. JournalXR empowers teachers to enable students to strike their own pathways by supporting their research and writing through the individual and collaborative production of knowledge that will be shared with others participating in scholarly publishing processes.
Build robust student portfolio
JournalXR engages students in curating each other’s work through peer review and publication in the journals they run in their schools or districts, enabling students to build a portfolio of published work. The principal means by which knowledge is established in academic settings, JournalXR gives a chance for students to experience, and exercise leadership as part of an editorial team, reviewers, copy editors, and in some instances as editors.
Develop a greater research culture through collaboration
JournalXR simplifies the creation of research reports, historical inquiries, empirical studies, and social and cultural analyses. The student’s work, whether individual or collaborative, builds on the platforms’ conceptual mapping of the current state of knowledge while representing their own distinctive path through the relationship among concepts and in assembling sources and data.
Share knowledge in academic settings
Freedom Cheteni
Professor Freedom Cheteni, a legendary educator and thought leader is one of Silicon Valley’s most influential voices. He is the Editor in Chief of the School Superintendents’ Journal, chair of the United Nations Green Jobs for Rural Youth steering committee and President of the VR School. Freedom advises governments on the future of work and proudly serves on the governing boards of the Biotech Institute, The RealMVP Charity Foundation and NALEDI. An award winning entrepreneur, Freedom has achieved international prominence in the exponential technology and education movements. He coined concepts such as “Movement Thinking” and “Designership” and is one of the creators of the Moonshots in Education movement. He shaped the founding of the first public school on a corporate campus in the United States, the world’s first VR School and Self-Driving College. Freedom designed curriculum taught at Stanford and beyond and is currently engaged in rigorous implementation of his ideas on the global stage.