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Students researched one of the Minor Political parties currently active in the US. They each submitted one slide and one page of research.

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I have been teaching for more than 20 years in 3 states and am intrigued by what the digital transformation means for education. In my Government/Economics & US History classes there is a need for direct teaching on many occasions. There are things that the students need to know before they can begin to understand how things operate in the world today.

I try to incorporate projects large and small into my coursework so that students have multiple opportunities to demonstrate what they have learned and how they are using that to help them make sense of their world.

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I included this as a reminder to myself that these skills are universal and are not possessed by all of my students. While they are best taught by modeling, they can be directly taught, which helps the students catch on to what behaviors to look for.

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The DLC Team Members taught various strategies to our staff.

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Our school is composed of a student population that is very comfortable with technology, but I have noticed they are not extremely adept at using it as a tool for learning. It is primarily a distraction for many. My hope is that we can learn how to effectively incorporate technology into our classrooms so that students come to view it as a tool for learning and project production.

Our administration is supportive of us taking risks and the potential failure that comes with that. So long as we learn from it and move forward, I know this will be a rewarding experience.

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I was asked to share my experiences with Board Builder with the faculty for a technology-focused professional development session.

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This is a 2-part assignment. First, the students create a webquest on their assigned court case. (Pairs worked with smaller classes.)

Students really enjoyed the freedom of the WebQuest project. They enjoyed finding their own sources and the personalized approach to the assessment in which they chose the cases they wanted to read about. They are frustrated by the video aspect of it, so that will require some tweaking.

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Students had to complete at least 5 of their classmates' webquests and evaluate the quality of their sources.

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Samples of student work. Password is McCuen3
https://padlet.com/bhowar4511/62pj3mgkhh33

https://padlet.com/ahall3044/786s11f6h1yq

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Password is McCuen4

https://padlet.com/wphill5723/va7acu8udoko

https://padlet.com/mstroz4294/riqpn7q2wgjg

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I used Padlet to house information for my Personal Finance unit and a PBL unit we completed in Economics. The students enjoyed having one place to find everything and will be making their own for court cases.

Password: McCuen1

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Students researched one person and submitted slides that I pulled into one big presentation.

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Students are given the attached forms to complete as they examine photographs and other primary sources related to the tragedy.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XYk0hBs-ThSqJtt5D3eGruq7qqMiCZmcLTbC-6HVzCE/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iANs722oNtvYk1QniRt2Umwi_Z-bC081E7chACc1Utw/edit?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BsiUVQ1VDwbveXTiR8gku3aHjcAbLZlE2S1bkRMN5DA

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Working through the evidence.

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Rather than do the traditional Current Events activities of discussing the news in class and having a few students dominate the discussion, students chose an issue that interests them to research and produce a web site over the course of the semester.

The final web site will be a major grade, but each part is being graded separately as a minor grade. Instructions are attached below for each part.

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This sets very strict publication guidelines to protect students from internet trolls.

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This will be used for most of the rest of the project. The first step was to read 2 articles related to education and identify emotional language/bias and then explain how to avoid bias in their research.

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Attached are sample web sties that students created.

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I chose to talk about the Black Lives Matter movement because it is a current event that closely affects my family, my peers, as well as myself. This movement and the events that caused it, impact me in everything I do as well as shape the way I think.

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For my current events project, I chose to research the debate over Confederate monuments that has been come about recently in the United States. This has certainly been in the news a couple of times in the past year or two, and upon seeing the videos of people tearing down statues of people from the Confederate era, I felt intrigued by the issue and why people felt so strongly about it.

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After being told a story of a bratty child in Target and processing through some questions, students complete a chart on Axis acts of aggression leading up to WWII. After discussing that and "appeasement," students were given a cartoon to embellish showing the causes of the war.

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Notice the Treaty of Versailles in the trash can.

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My favorite part of this is the League of Nations playing video games in the break room.

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I love that this student drew in another parent to represent the other Allies.