Week 4 - Practical Task [Sept. 1, 2011, 5:06 a.m.]

This week you will modify, enhance or create a lesson plan or project that you will teach during Week 5 of this course. The goal of this task is to incorporate what you have learned about deeper learning and social media into your teaching practice. We dare you to be creative, to try something new and to take risks. We will all learn from each others’ successes and failures.

Here’s another example of what we are talking about.

Check out Samuel Reed's Unit called MySpace and Democracy on Curriki.

Need more inspiration? Check out this vibrant community of educators, Classroom 2.0 - it’s all about social media tools in education.

Here’s the criteria we discussed from Week 2 for your review. Think about...

1) To what extent does my lesson promote...?

core content knowledge
critical thinking
complex problem solving
working in collaboration
effective communication
learning how to learn
global perspective

2) How will I effectively incorporate web 2.0 / social media tools into this lesson or project? Which of Jenkin’s “New Media Literacy Skills” are being used? (If you need a refresher on these skills click here.)