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Melissa Pietricola

Teachers' Domain: Social Studies - 0 views

  • Sheyann Webb was eight years old in 1965 when she marched for voting rights. In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, she recalls the events of the Selma march.
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      Shevann Webb-primary source interview on voting rights march. Info on Selma March; used for Eyes on the Prize.
    • Melissa Pietricola
       
      I would probably use this as a closure piece to a lesson on integration. It brings to life the ideas I'm describing.
    • Melissa Pietricola
       
      The Resource Highlights are great primary source interviews! They are relatively short and very interesting.
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    For Module 4 SHevann Webb-Voting rights march participant in '65. One of my concepts is citizenship and I am hoping that the struggle for voting rights will be chosen by my students. What a great primary source this interview is!
Alicia Fernandez

A Well Rounded Education for a Flat World - 0 views

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    With today's global competition, there is increasing concern about the nature and quality of higher education. One set of concerns focuses on higher education's purpose - should it be practical and graduate well equipped students to supply a competitive workforce? Or, should it rather explore what some critics label "romantic" notions of a liberal education with broad ideas and values to prepare students for democratic citizenship? The authors argue that for students to be successful in today's global economy, higher education must recognize and emphasize that practical and liberal education are tightly coupled, and that students' academic, developmental, interpersonal and experiential lives are entwined. Colleges must move from traditional education to what we term transformational learning.
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    With today's global competition, there is increasing concern about the nature and quality of higher education. One set of concerns focuses on higher education's purpose - should it be practical and graduate well equipped students to supply a competitive workforce? Or, should it rather explore what some critics label "romantic" notions of a liberal education with broad ideas and values to prepare students for democratic citizenship? The authors argue that for students to be successful in today's global economy, higher education must recognize and emphasize that practical and liberal education are tightly coupled, and that students' academic, developmental, interpersonal and experiential lives are entwined. Colleges must move from traditional education to what we term transformational learning.
Maria Guadron

Where's the Learning in Service Learning? | National Service-Learning Clearinghouse - 0 views

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    Eyler and GIles (1999) discuss "the potential of service-learning to enhance the learning process"
Maria Guadron

e-mentor :: Experience as the Foundation for Authentic Learning Online - 0 views

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    McCracken and Guthrie (2011) discuss service learning in virtual environments and more!
Joan McCabe

Service-eLearning: Educating for Citizenship - 0 views

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    See the Hill & Harris chapter on Service-eLearning and Professional Writing, beginning on page 75.
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    Another example of authentic learning in the online environment.
b malczyk

Benefits of Diversity in Education - 0 views

  • students in classrooms and in the broad campus environment will be more motivated and better able to participate in a heterogeneous and complex society
  • Cognitive growth is fostered when individuals encounter experiences and demands that they cannot completely understand or meet, and thus must work to comprehend and master the new
  • more frequently expressed democratic sentiment
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  • greater motivation to take the perspective of others
  • less often evaluated the University’s emphasis on diversity as producing divisiveness between groups
  • enjoyed learning about the experiences and perspectives of other groups more than the control students
  • participants were more interested in politics and also had participated more frequently in campus political activities.
  • The discrepancy that racial and ethnic diversity on college campuses offers students for personal development and preparation for citizenship in an increasingly multicultural society depends on actual experience that students have with diverse peers.
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    This article describes some of the potential benefits of diversity in education. In my post I suggest that online education provides a unique means of increasing diversity which comes with the benefits described in this article.
alexandra m. pickett

How important is cultural diversity at your school? - 0 views

  • A 2007 study by Public Agenda and the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality found that 76% of new teachers say they were trained to teach an ethnically diverse student body but fewer than 4 in 10 say their training helps them deal with the challenges they face.
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      Our course provides us wiith a place to learn to interact with a diverse group which is something we can then exemplify and share with our students.
    • alexandra m. pickett
       
      nicely stated.
  • Attending a school with a diverse student body can help prepare your child for citizenship in a multicultural democracy.
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      nice use of a diigo sticky ben!
  • the U.S. minority population will become the majority
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    A brief article that describes the importance of diversity in schools and signs that diversity is appreciated at a school.
Erin Fontaine

Media Use Statistics                                           Resources on m... - 0 views

  • ne out of ten 13- to 17-year-olds have used some form of social media
  • 68% of all teens say Facebook is their main social networking site
  • 51% visit social networking sites daily
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  • 34% of teens visit their main social networking site several times a day
  • 23% of teens is a “heavy” social media user, meaning they use at least two different types of social media each and every day
  • A new study finds that 20 percent of third grade students have cell phones and 90 percent of them are online, while 83 percent of children in middle school have one.
  • 63% of all teens say they exchange text messages every day with people in their lives, including their parents
  • Half (52 percent) of all zero- to 8-year-olds have access to a new mobile device such as a smart phone, video iPod, or iPad/tablet
  • Fully 95 percent of all teens ages 12-17 are now online, and 80 percent of online teens are users of social media sites. Teens of all ages and backgrounds are witnessing these mean behaviors online and are reacting in a variety of ways:
  • Ninety percent of teen social media users say they have ignored the mean behavior they have witnessed on a social network site. Eighty percent say they have personally defended a victim of meanness and cruelty. Seventy-nine percent say they have told someone to stop their mean behavior on a social network site. Twenty-one percent say they have personally joined in on the harassment of others on a social network site. Source
  • Nearly 90% of older teens (aged 14-17) have a cell phone, while just under 60% of 12- to 13-year-olds have a cell phone
  • More than a third (38 percent) of children this age have used one of these devices, including 10 percent of zero-to 1-year-olds, 39 percent of 2- to 4-year-olds, and more than half (52 percent) of 5- to 8-year-olds.
  • In a typical day, one in 10 zero- to 8-year-olds uses a smart phone, video iPod, iPad, or similar device to play games, watch videos, or use other apps. Those who do such activities spend an average of 43 minutes a day doing so
  • Sixty-five percent of high school students use cell phones in school.
  • One-quarter of text messages sent by teens are sent during class.
ian august

New Media Literacies - 1 views

  • On the other hand, the one life perspective says it is time to help students blend their two lives into an integrated, meaningful approach to living in the digital age.
  • It says that the technology that kids use is too expensive, problematic, or distracting to integrate into teaching and learning. It says that issues concerning the personal, social, and environmental impacts of living a digital, technological lifestyle are tangential to a school curriculum. Above all, it says that kids will have to figure out how to navigate the digital world beyond school on their own and puzzle through issues of cyber safety, technological responsibility, and digital citizenship without the help of the educational system.
  • It says that if we don't understand that schools are exactly the place for kids to learn how to use technology not only effectively and creatively but also responsibly and wisely, then heaven help us all.
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  • Should we consider students to have two separate lives--a relatively digital free life at school and a digitally saturated life away from school--or should we consider them to have one life that integrates their lives as students and digital citizens?
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    should we embrace technology in the classroom and teach kids how to use it?
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