Students Speak Up in Class, Silently, via Social Media - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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“Everybody is heard in our class,” said Leah Postman, 17.
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Janae Smith, also 17, said, “It’s made me see my peers as more intelligent, seeing their thought process and begin to understand them on a deeper level.”
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Mrs. Olson asked her students to connect “the argument” of the poem they read and the video with their own rally. As the discussion swirled in class, one student typed on the backchannel: “We tend to have the attitude that someone else will do it. But what happens when everyone thinks the same as you?”
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