Beyond School

I subscribe to Patrick Aroune’s Educational Change blog, and for good reason. This HS history teacher is a “teaching-artist”. Here’s a clip from Patrick’s blog about an exciting (and simple) current events world-collaboration project he’s launching. See here for the full post.

As a history teacher in the United States, I feel a great opportunity awaits my students with current events. The study of current events, the media that reports these events, and the opportunity to conjoin multi-global points of view, allows a truly unique opportunity to study history in the making, while exposing students to a dynamic global perspective.

I would like to construct a super community that utilizes a common set of websites, such as daylife (thanks Will Richardson, again), and have students blog these stories and comment on each others blogs, discussing points of view and literary analysis. Students could develop a sub-community using their delicious accounts, allowing social networking that reaches beyond their individual classrooms. Students could utilize skype and online white boards like vyew, to develop inter-continental collaborative blogs on particular topics. Students can develop their own extensive library of thought using diigo and clip notes. It is a simple project in design, with truly a limitless opportunity to develop a global perspective of real-time historical events.

I wish I had a current events class. I’d join. (The fearless Spivey-dude might.)

1. My “Critically Reading Current Events” Blogging Homework 10/22/2008
2. Daily Current Events Reads 10/20/2008
3. Open Thread: Questioning Global Collaboration: Does Flat Fall Flat for Teens?

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