Last week I shared with you my goal of focusing on teaching and modeling 21st Century skills in my blog, The 4 C’s of 21st Century Learning. This would lead to better support for my students who were born and raised in the 21st Century. For my master’s course, this week I created a lesson on “The Forgotten War” that incorporates technology tools that will allow my students to demonstrate their knowledge in a collaborative and creative way. In this lesson, my students will be participating in a discussion on the political, social, and/or cultural factors that make an event memorable. Then using online sources, they will create an annotated timeline of the events leading to the Korean War.
The technological tools I will be incorporating into the lesson will be Padlet and Genially. Padlet will be used as our discussion board, where the students will post their thoughts and responses. Genially will provide the templates for the annotated timeline and will give my students choices to allow for their creative juices to flow. This lesson connects to Renee Hobbs’ five communication competencies, encouraging students to express in multiple modalities and collaboratively use technology to share thoughts (2011).
When I was creating this lesson, I started by looking at the C3 Framework for Social Studies standards. (Check out this recent presentation on the C3 Framework that I created with a colleague at my school for a faculty meeting!) This has shown to be a challenge because it has been a big change for our department this year. It has been trial and error to figure out how to connect to students at all levels. However, the C3 Framework encourages 21st Century Learning where technology, creativity and collaboration support students to display their knowledge in different ways.
Check out the video below for an introduction to the Korean War!
Resources:
Hobbs, R. (2011). Digital and media literacy: Connecting culture and classroom. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin/Sage.
Talks, T. (2015, June 12). On Demand Learning in the 21st Century Classroom | Kayla Scheer | TEDxABQED. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS7AFS0WmWQ
Editors, H. (2009, November 09). Korean War. Retrieved from https://www.history.com/topics/korea/korean-war
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