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Tracy Watanabe

Helping Students Become Active Citizens - 0 views

  • In a May post here at the Voices blog, I suggested that one of the things I thought colleges should be looking for from prospective students was civic engagement. Certainly, having students see themselves as actors and creators of history is one of my goals for my history students.
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    Nice post about history students and engaging them in rigorous learning.
Tracy Watanabe

Home: About CAP Civic Action Project | High School Civics Government Curriculum | Lesso... - 0 views

  • Civic Action Project (CAP) is a project-based learning model for civics and government courses. It offers a practicum for high school students in effective and engaged citizenship and uses blended learning to engage students in civic activities both in and out of the traditional U.S. government classroom. By using web-based technology and civics-based instruction and activities, students exercise important 21st century skills in digital literacy, critical thinking, collaboration, self-direction, and learning to be an engaged and effective citizen in a democracy.
Tracy Watanabe

The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness: Putting EdTech into Practice - Movies ... - 0 views

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    How to engage kids while watching a movie in class.
Tracy Watanabe

Engage Future Voters with Election Projects | Edutopia - 1 views

  • With the presidential election dominating the news between now and November, there's no shortage of timely material to bring into classroom discussions. If used as the starting point for project-based learning, the 2012 election can engage students in thinking critically about everything from media messages to voter rights to public opinion polls.
  • When students become media literate, they learn to ask critical questions about how political advertisements were constructed, who paid for them to be produced and aired, and whether the information is credible or distorted. Often, such projects lead to students producing and publishing their own media messages.
Tracy Watanabe

Flipping History | The Thinking Stick - 0 views

  • In fact every time I have helped a teacher flip their classroom in the high school it has never involved videos. Instead it involves students actively finding information, making sense of it, and then coming to class ready to discuss with the teacher what they have learned, what questions they have and, what it is they still don’t know/understand.
  • Currently I am working with a history teacher who came to me with some “really dry historical content” that he needed to cover in his 11th grade Thailand and Southeast Asia history class.
  • The essential question: How does the past influence the present?
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    Awesome -- takes us through creating engaging units with essential questions. There is a lot here. Very worth your time.
Tracy Watanabe

Fantasy Geopolitics - 3 views

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    "Think "fantasy football for social studies and literacy standards". Teachers sign up, have a draft in class, and use scores and resources however they want. Students draft teams of countries, become more aware, and automatically score points every time their countries are mentioned in the NY Times. FGP engages students in the study of how politics, geography, humans, economics, and foreign policy interact."
Tracy Watanabe

Fantasy Geopolitics - 0 views

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    Think "fantasy football for social studies and literacy standards". It's a social learning game that follows countries and world leaders as they compete for news headlines. Teachers sign up, have a draft in class, and use scores and resources however they want. Students draft teams of countries, become more aware, and automatically score points every time their countries are mentioned in the NY Times. FGP engages students in the study of how politics, geography, humans, economics, and foreign policy interact.
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