- Dec 2017
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drive.google.com drive.google.com
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Students have written imaginative stories set in nightclubs where jazz greats came to play and their grandparents met and fell in love, cafés that once held the laughter of Black voices, or the basements of an elder’s home where neighbors organized to protest urban renewal.
These sound like stories of hope!
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we dive into historical background that includes redlining, real estate covenants that didn’t allow people of color to live in certain sections of the city
In our history class we also looked at how this took place in Chicago. I also had the students annotate (using hypothes.is) [Executive Order 1376 Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements] ( https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/30/2017-02095/border-security-and-immigration-enforcement-improvements) as a way for them to critically research and analyze current-day events.
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I ask them to write a narrative about a time their homes were lost, stolen, or restored
What an awesome idea! I may borrow it!
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I moved in the right direction when I stopped believing that I was the one who knew and they were the ones who needed to know.
Yeah, we need to get over ourselves. And, lose our fear of not knowing something. And be willing to actually acknowledge to the students we don't know something!
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- Nov 2017
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Why is this worth studying?
An excellent question at all levels of education, K-20 and beyond. It's important for students and educators to be able to connect course content to real-world application.
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These are students who have out-of-the-box ideas for interdisciplinary degrees that are based on their own personal passions and life goals.
I would love to see this as the norm!
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- Oct 2017
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kinginstitute.stanford.edu kinginstitute.stanford.edu
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This is no time (My Lord) to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism
Meliora students, what does MLK mean by "cooling off" and "gradualism?"
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And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.
Meliora students, are there similar movements going on today? Provide a short response (a sentence or two) and a link to a source that supports your position.
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We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
Meliora students, do you agree or disagree with MLK's stance? Do you think violent or peaceful protests are more effective? Provide evidence (link to source(s)) to support your viewpoint.
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We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.
Meliora students, has this changed? Statistically speaking, how much have the number of (reported) cases changed in the past 45 years? Provide a link to a source.
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And if America is to be a great nation (Yes), this must become true.
Meliora students, do you agree with this statement? Is racial equality a prerequisite for American being a great nation? Why?
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One hundred years later (All right), the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
Meliora students, it has been 45 years since MLK made this statement. How much has the relative wealth of black people improved since then (gap between wealth of blacks and whites)? Write a short answer, and include a link to a source.
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impedagogy.com impedagogy.com
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perhaps an expert’s failure to be aware of who his audience is, but for whatever reason my students didn’t get it.
And we wonder why some students do better than others on standardized tests? One test for 3.6 million students from a plethora of backgrounds and experiences?
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while I understand that there is research on the power of summary writing in learning, I am uncertain how that skill is supposed to effect my students’ learning.
Summary writing is a form of synthesis, n'est-ce pas? It requires higher-order cognition. As the summarizing gets better, the ability to synthesize gets better... a never-ending loop of improvement in cognition.
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www.federalregister.gov www.federalregister.gov
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secure the southern border of the United States through the immediate construction of a physical wall on the southern border, monitored and supported by adequate personnel so as to prevent illegal immigration, drug and human trafficking, and acts of terrorism
Meliora students, what are the estimated costs to build such a wall?
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Secure Fence Act and IIRIRA
Meliora students, what are the "Secure Fence Act" and "IIRIRA?" Please provide a short summary of their intent and when they were enacted.
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Transnational criminal organizations operate sophisticated drug- and human-trafficking networks and smuggling operations on both sides of the southern border, contributing to a significant increase in violent crime and United States deaths from dangerous drugs.
Meliora students, please find sources that detail the incidences and costs of drug- and human-trafficking coming from the southern border of the United States.
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The head of each executive department and agency shall identify and quantify all sources of direct and indirect Federal aid or assistance to the Government of Mexico on an annual basis over the past five years, including all bilateral and multilateral development aid, economic assistance, humanitarian aid, and military aid. Within 30 days of the date of this order, the head of each executive department and agency shall submit this information to the Secretary of State. Within 60 days of the date of this order, the Secretary shall submit to the President a consolidated report reflecting the levels of such aid and assistance that has been provided annually, over each of the past five years.
Meliora students, how much does the US Federal government spend on aid/assistance to Mexico each year?
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fear determinations
Meliora students, what is a "fear determination?"
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The recent surge of illegal immigration at the southern border with Mexico has placed a significant strain on Federal resources and overwhelmed agencies charged with border security and immigration enforcement, as well as the local communities into which many of the aliens are placed.
Meliora students, please find reliable evidence of the costs related to illegal immigration.
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Aliens who illegally enter the United States without inspection or admission present a significant threat to national security and public safety.
Meliora students, what do you think of this? Please find evidence of the veracity (or not) of this statement.
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- Jul 2017
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As students do their literature review and content curation, I’m interested in something other than each student keeping it in a doc or a blog page. I’m thinking about maybe using a diigo group, but also, I am thinking we should all use Zotero maybe a group? I have zero experience there, so welcome feedback.
Is there opportunity for peer review of the literature review work?
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online talk in TED format
I like this idea. Question: does it need to be TED format, or could they have more options as to how they present?
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- May 2017
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educatorinnovator.org educatorinnovator.org
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hope
Wouldn't it be great if even the most marginalized could end their time with us with a sense of hope?
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- Feb 2017
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www.npr.org www.npr.org
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famously disparaging world-building as "the great clomping foot of nerdism."
Do you agree? Why or why not?
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And Martin can spend page after exhausting page detailing the coat-of-arms of every attendee at a royal banquet.
What do you think about this? What level of detail is appropriate? How is it different for a short story compared to a novel?
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- Jan 2017
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hybridpedagogy.org hybridpedagogy.org
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For many of us, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between our real selves and our virtual selves, and in fact, these distinctions are being altogether unsettled
Why should there be a difference between our real and virtual selves?
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content is co-constructed as part of and not in advance of the learning.
I consider this a "just-in-time" process. For example, teaching students fractions with no context and no application loses some of them. Teaching them fractions "just-in-time" to plan out a garden plot offers them a tangible, practical reason to understand fractions and is more likely to engage them in the learning.
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- Aug 2016
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umairhaque.com umairhaque.com
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a) your skills will be in demand because you’ve created a demand for them
Interesting assertion. I think something that matters to me will only be in demand if there are enough other people who agree with me and highly value my skills.
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- Jun 2016
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www.blueridgejournal.com www.blueridgejournal.com
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burns its strength into the blistered rock
I find the forceful physicality of the imagery very memorable.
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- May 2016
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impedagogy.com impedagogy.com
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Learning is the wolf
Is learning the wolf in the fold, or is schooling the wolf? I think learning is magic, and ongoing, and in the bestest of worlds, an absolute delight.
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- Apr 2016
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impedagogy.com impedagogy.comFraud!1
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Fraud!
So, if all of this is a fraud, what education (as opposed to school) structure results in truth?
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impedagogy.com impedagogy.com
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Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal
I wonder if any of the rest of you have seen today's NYT article related to this topic?
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impedagogy.com impedagogy.com
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Most of my students are risk-averse, strategic, and heavily into default mode despite the fact that I have repeatedly advised them that I value risk.
This seems to be a factor in all levels of education. This is a BIG problem, because we require citizens who think and are open to taking risks. It also reminds me that if I tell students I value risk, I need to stand behind that in my reactions.
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- Mar 2016
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www.mdpi.com www.mdpi.com
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“living curriculum”
Love this term. In my ideal world, all curricula would be "living," forever shapeshifting and improving.
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professional development facilitators can design with flexible structures that allow for convergence, divergence, and aleatory pathways arising in interaction.
Do you realize how queasy that would make many/most PD facilitators?
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#SilentSunday
Love #SilentSunday! Great community builder.
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remix literacies extend beyond objects to include socially shared practices and processes
For sure! Who among us has not seen students huddled together over a digital device, where one of them is showing the others how s/he accomplished some spectacular Snapchat result?
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Zeega
Ah, yes, where is Zeega hiding, tellio?
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fetishize
Is this really a word???
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disruption, diffraction, and bifurcation
I would argue that today's youth are already using social media for exactly this purpose. In many instances within their intimate social groups, to play pranks on each other, etc. Also to make (often unflattering) statements about the adults in their lives.
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does something different with the tools, processes, structures, and/or accumulated content in the community
The "something different" is key. In Walter Isaacson's book The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, he argues that many innovations are merely tweaks of work done by others, and that most innovations are not the work of one person, but several working together who each have different skills/strengths.
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iterative, collaborative, critical practice
All characteristics of inquiry/project-based methodologies.
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- Feb 2016
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impedagogy.com impedagogy.com
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Each of their other university courses are layered atop and through this map, each of their working lives interlaced, their personal lives fusing it all together.
I'm interpreting this to mean they have a variety of (unconnected) courses, plus their outside lives. Have there been any discussions within the university about doing inter/multi-disciplinary courses, to create connections?
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I mapped it further with my digital friend, Thinglink, using their video annotation capabilities.
I haven't used ThingLink's video annotation, so thanks for inspiring me to try it. Do you have a sense for how many of the students: 1) watched the video; 2) clicked on the blue tags?
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- Jan 2016
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impedagogy.com impedagogy.com
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http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/01/what-classrooms-can-learn-from-magic/425100/
I like that you are using this article to launch the topic, provide low- (no-?) stakes practice, and to invite the students into the conversation.
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