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=//Project Title: Our Ideas, Our Actions // = = =

// This wikispace was designed to share about and keep track of the process of planning a project-based learning experience. It hosts a collection of ideas, thoughts, and resources that support the teaching and learning about social action for an authentic, real-world experience. The process of ////Understanding by Design// (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005) was applied during the planning of the project. T //he following essential questions guided the initial stages of this planning process: //

 //** What does it mean to be a global citizen? Why is this important? How do we make change? What are the possibilities of change? What are the consequences if we don't? **//

 Students are required to share a page in a wikispace with a partner and collaborate about their thinking. As ideas emerge that help to construct understanding around the essential questions, students will visit the wikispace and document their ideas. This opportunity to track thinking is a way for me (as a teacher) to check in on student learning as it progresses and evolves. Also, this is an opportunity for students to check in with their classmates to gain insight into their ideas and draw fuel from others to push the thinking to a deeper level of understanding. Finally, the work that posted on the student wiki page will be used to help students construct a message to send out to the world in the form of a Action Service Learning Project and Public Service Announcement. These wikispace pages will be shared with others about an issue that needs desperate attention in the world.

 These videos below will introduce you to some issues that may be of interest to the students. In your first post, students will work with partners to describe some of the issues that are called out in the videos. Students will generate a list of possible projects and begin to work towards creating action service learning projects aimed at solving these problems.