This year, I wanted students to spend more time trying to change issues about which they are passionate. We spent an entire semester incorporating different styles of research and detailed data analysis. Most of the projects were focused on attitude or behavior change, which takes much longer than a short project would allow for. Agenda
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This unit was structured around C-SPAN's annual Student Cam competition. Students chose a problem the new administration should work to solve in 2017, provided evidence of the issue, used video of politicians' discussing the issue, and interviewed experts. The project was designed to assess research skills, argument organization, technology use, and creativity students had practiced in our earlier mini units. This unit was very loosely organized. Students worked in their groups, and I simply provided resources (google docs, optional in-class workshops, short mini lessons/reminders).
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I apologize for not posting yet this year. My educational responsibilities are growing as my dissertation proposal rapidly approaches. As a results, posts may be briefer and less frequent than in previous years, but I still want to share what the class is working on! So...this year, I'm teaching a broader course on critical literacies and activism through a feminist lens, but specifically designed to include more axes of identity in the curriculum. During the first weeks of school, students chose an article to analyze from this list as a diagnostic. We discussed "scout mindset" and bias using this helpful TED Talk and the story of Red Riding Hood from the wolf's PoV. We also examined statistical bias in the media. We also discussed digital citizenship for several days, which included questions like these (taken from Common Sense media lessons) as students received their own iPads this year. The first semester of the course will look at the treatment of various social groups in society. I began with immigrants as a social group, as it is something every student could relate to personally. Here's what we did for the mini unit:
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