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I am still reflecting on the many wonderful exeperinces at CMK, but I thought I would post a photo: 6 of us in the same room!
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Not the End of year reflections: A year of history and making
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I started this post in May. I worked on it a bit in June. Then I abandoned it, lonely on my computer, until I stumbled on it this morning. So I finished it off (just a little proofreading) and I share it now, even though we are far from the end of the year, and I don’t know if it will resonate with anyone here in the middle of the crazy beginning of the year season.
Thinking about making and history at the end of the year.
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Silhouettes – Old and New Technology of Portraits
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In August, while I was thinking about for a simpler laser cut project to teach Inkscape and the laser cutter in my 8th grade history class this year, I happened upon two things at about the same time.
Telegraph Project in History
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I posted a while ago about the line between instructions and letting students figure it all out, and I said I would report back after I taught the telegraph lesson.
Making and National History Day
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In some ways, National History Day (NHD) is rather “old school,” a science fair style research competition for history. I started requiring my students to participate in NHD because I saw the potential for deep research and thought, a good match with our department history “habits of mind” and a great opportunity for students to pick topics that they cared about.
Just in Time Teacher Learning
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One of the things I like about letting students decide what they need to make for their projects is how much learning takes place between the moment they say "I want to make a model of the Taj Mahal to show how the architecture reflects the way Shah Jahan wanted to memorialize his wife" and the finished project. For me, as a teacher, that is when a great deal of learning takes place.
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This is great!
This is great!
By the way, if anyone wants to see some examples of the projects from CMK this year, this post is a compilation of blog reflections, videos, and photos from CMK14. http://constructingmodernknowledge.com/cmk08/?p=2382
Dates for CMK15 have been announced! July 7-10, 2015 (http://constructingmodernknowledge.com/cmk08/?p=2389)