Denae Delcourt's Photo Voice by Denae

jdelcour — 2015-09-22 21:33:25 UTC

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Robyn's Comments

2015-09-23 20:20:47 UTC

Picture 1: Social participation and democracy are definitely vital aspects of citizenship and engaging children young into the mechanics of politics is definitely integral especially when you look at the present voter apathy today. This is really topical too since just today in the paper they were discussing how the Alberta voting age might be lowered to 16 to provoke more voter interest.
Picture 2: This is a really beautiful photo and could be applied to almost all of the grades in the program of studies with the different manifestations of community being a jumping off point... within a student's neighbourhood, Alberta, Canada and comparing global ones too.
Picture 3: I really love how some of your photos/explanations tie into current affairs, whether its the upcoming federal election or CBC, really makes these concepts relevant in both teaching and the "everyday". The CBC would be an amazing teaching tool for sure, they have great archival stuff too for the historical thinking component of Social Studies. Great stuff! :)
Picture 4: This is really interesting and I liked how you already had ideas into how you could implement this into your instruction. Students could find other cultural symbols similar in meaning to further contribute to their understanding of similarties between people.

Jen's Comments

2015-09-24 04:14:40 UTC

Picture one: Democracy is such an important part of canadian history, and what canada is today. Canadian citizenship is also strongly based around it, as some countries where many people in Canada are previously from are run by very different political systems. It is important that students understand their right to vote, and the idea of social participation and being a social citizen. This picture would be a good way to introduce a unit about democracy in a grade 6 classroom because it is something they will have most likely seen before at one time or another.

Picture two: First off, this is an amazing photo. I found your points interesting, because I also don't know much about luge as a sport, but I'm sure other people around me do. It is important that students understand citizenship as a community, and how differences can be beneficial in the sharing of knowledge.

Picture three: This picture personally interests me because it sparked my interest to research more into this issue at hand. I like that you chose this, as it relates specially to a real world issue that students could critically examine. Evaluating a situation like this would be beneficial in showing students more about democracy and the power that people have in canada. CBC is as you said a monumental part of Canada and Canadian citizen, therefore, should be fought for.

Picture four: I was drawn to this picture because it reminds me of when I was in elementary and we did an art project where we had to make these. The idea of being unique is essential to both personal identity and community identity/ citizenship which is an integral part of various social studies learning outcomes. This would be great to implement to show connections, and differences between students. I think similarly to Robyn, in suggesting that students could also examine other cultural symbols that represent similarities and differences in the same community.