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Knowing Your Story
Knowing your story and those stories around you is so helpful in education. We are always telling our students to read the textbook or read some unrelated stuff. But we can’t forget that there are people around us that have lived the history we read about. This became even more apparent to me this weekend when I read a book my grandfather just finished writing about my grandmother’s life.
This book was about how my grandmother made it through the Great Depression, life at home with 10 children (1 adopted son is a Catholic priest missing and presumed dead in Sudan), the changes in the Catholic Church, and several other historical events.
There was so much information I never knew… Like she was in several movies, first as a Meglin Kiddie dancer, then on her own. (Midsummer’s Night Dream scene below.) These movies helped supplement the family during the Great Depression (a time when they lost all their investments).
It reminds me how rich our lives are from the people around us. And, how much we can learn from primary sources.
Morphing into a 21st Century Teacher (updated)
This work by Mia MacMeekin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Using iMovie in the Classroom
This video was made
on this green screen by this kid.
For an online course in Curatr.
21st Century Learning
…in picture form…
This is in addition to other resources.
It is seeing the student as having the information at the tips of their fingers, analyzing the information, and doing something with it.
An Ethical Island 