https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo jig saw presentation- kaylee unser en-us 2023-03-02 01:40:13 UTC 2025-04-24 09:10:35 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f5e3.png kunser https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500393913 2023-03-02 01:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500393913 kunser https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500401317 In this article, there is a real emphasis on the inhumanity that is apart of slavery, and how that is at the core of why it is so important to teach correctly. These people who lived through these horrifying experiences should not be pushed under the rug or simplified to not hurt peoples feelings. This article connects to the book because it talks about showing all sides of the story, even if it makes people uncomfortable. One example of this is talking about which presidents had slaves. This shows that the leaders of our country are not innocent to the injustices that occurred during their term, the injustices that they themselves were apart of. ]]> 2023-03-02 01:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500401317 kunser https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500404134 Another component that is linked to to the book is to teach slavery from the perspectives of the people that were affected by it. Teaching slavery from a white male perspective does no justice to the hardships that African American people had to go through to survive. In the book, they talk about how slaves should not be shown as people who all had one unanimous experience while enslaved, and instead show the varying struggles and circumstances that millions of people had to face.]]> 2023-03-02 01:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500404134 kunser https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500408711 One of the key connections between the book and this article is the varying resources that teachers can use to teach about slavery correctly. Teachers must go outside of the text books. Giving first person accounts of the realities of slavery, like diaries, is a way to show slavery in a way where the students can understand better. It humanizes the slaves and how African American people during that time were more than just that; they had families hopes for the future and a better life. Also, you can take your students to various important historical places that give information about slavery, like museums. What is the most important part is that teachers are doing the research into where ever they take their students, and what resources they use to teach them.]]> 2023-03-02 02:00:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500408711 kunser https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500411122 2023-03-02 02:03:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500411122 kunser https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500412825 2023-03-02 02:05:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500412825 kunser https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500413428 2023-03-02 02:05:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500413428 kunser https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500415189 2023-03-02 02:07:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500415189 kunser https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500419127 2023-03-02 02:11:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500419127 kunser https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500419529 Gamification is when there is game like components intertwined with an educational component that
places the entertainment value over the learning. Dramatization goes hand in hand with the use of gamification. The use of gamification commonly reinforces the dominant perspective by trying to erase the reality of the marginalized ones. When teaching about slavery, teachers should make sure not to  re-traumatize your students. Teachers should work to develop students content knowledge and historical empathy as they learn about slavery rather than trying to make it a fun time. Any role play or game like activity should have a lot of context and the purpose of the activity should be very clear to students. Show both sides of the event. 



]]> 2023-03-02 02:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500419529 kunser https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500422497 The Oregon trail game is a role play video game that is a prime example of problematic gamification. It is a game that further emphasizes white normality and the white perspective. The game teaches the concept of  “Westward Expansion” without talking about the fact that white colonists were not the first people to live on this land. They ignore the devastation of how the white men settled onto this land.  They also offer little to no information about the Native people who lived and still live on the land that the settlers trespassed on. This game only perpetuates the wite narrative that the settlers took over this land peacefully. The gamification of such a traumatic era is in itself horrible. As the book details, do not make genocide a game.



]]> 2023-03-02 02:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500422497 kunser https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500423976 Leah Slick-Driscoll (Meskwaki/Winnebago) is  a social studies teacher at Meskwaki Settlement School. With the Oregon trail in mind, this teacher created a more just and fair simulation. The base of the game has students imagine that there is an alien invasion of the Midwest. Rather than disconnecting the game from the horrors of reality, every part of this game that Slick-Driscoll created is analagous to real events that the Native people have had to life through. This is one of the key differences between these two games. ]]> 2023-03-02 02:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500423976 kunser https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500424692 While slavery is a heavy and serious topic, there are some ways to show that the conditions that African Americans lived through have gotten better, and there is hope. Particularly in elementary education, it is important for teachers to not only share the horrors, but the Black joy that was experienced, and is still happening today. The book describes Black joy as the many outlets of community resilience and ingenuity. Black joy is not a happy slave, but how African American people found solace and strength in their own lives to keep moving forward. The norm in America tends to take away the diverse individual communities that Black people created and worked to keep. They want to frame people of color as being the exact same; people who look the same act the same and have the same ideals. As teachers we must move past the one story lens that has been taught in the past, and create a new world of understanding and empathy. ]]> 2023-03-02 02:17:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500424692 kunser https://padlet.com/kunser/3ffy9bqmllpdnkvo/wish/2500429363 The way that historical events are spoken about and the wording used is so important in the way that the event is understood. Something as simple as using the term forced migration instead of slavery changes the way that the event is understood. Words have connotations behind them, and as teachers we must be careful with the phrasing that we use in our classrooms. Another example is the use of the word plantation; the reality of slavery is that the plantations that slaves lived on were really slave labor camps. Something as simple as using enslaved rather than slave reminds both you and your students that African Americans did not want to be slaves. They did not choose the life that they were living and being enslaved was a deliberate act by white American's.


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