Hi all,
Here’s a summary of today’s chat:
On the chat today we made a small change to the format, as per an interesting suggestion by george. This week, we will rotate media again:
The Baghdad group will look at the NY media
The NY group will look at the USA West media
The USA West group will look at the Baghdad media
and make commentary / analysis / additions once more. We will add this material in the comments section of the original media post, to keep everything consolidated. Then, for the final leg, the media will rotate back to its original creators, who…
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I wish I had told him,
The old Farsi teacher who was asking me how he can apply for Canadian immigration and if they need Farsi teachers?
I wish I had told him then, before the painful forms, before the long corridors, before the exhaustion of experience, and before the cost of memory,
I wish I had told him
Farsi is a lost cause here.
I wish I had told him,
My mother tongue is buried deep under, and I cannot even hold my breath long enough to swim over and fetch it, not even in my dreams.
I wish I had told him,
My…
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Iraq grp project video week 1iraq grp project week 1 , text
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Hi all,
Very much looking forward to the design phase! So as mentioned in our chat today, the goal for this week is to:
Meet with your respective groups (check out the attached Iraqi American Contacts Spread Sheet for contact info, which I will also send later via email)
Generate media that your group feels relates the theme of freedom and change to your community. Subtexts of freedom of speech (my personal fave) and democracy also welcome, its up to you.
Post your media to the blog before next Wednesday, when we will skype chat, same time frame as usual, to discuss next…
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Hi all,
I had a lovely chat yesterday with Chris Crews (Parsons, NYC), George Bixby (Parsons, NYC), and Hong-An Truong (about to teach at U of N. Carolina Chapel Hill) about the design project.
An thought that recurred several times was the idea that it would be good to incorporate a personal element into the media that we begin working with in the first stage of the design process. Photographing people’s daily surroundings seemed one way to do this. We also talked about the fact that it might be good to start with a common text, but since the US and…
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hand made
correspondence (i love mail!)
snap shots
hand written
interview/profile of influential teacher
first day of school
what you never learned, but want to
skype or world classroom
Pictures are worth 1,000 words/find a picture of me here taken from my computer.
So I haven’t mentioned it, but every week of our discussions I’ve been in a different location, and sometimes a different time zone. The first week I was in Orange County, California, the second week I was in Los Angeles, CA, the 3rd week I was in Oakland, Ca and now I am in Durango, Co on my friend’s property which has 30 peacocks on…
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Each week Students and Educators from Iraq and the Western and Eastern United States Meet Online to Converse. First we were discussing how we might be able to use education to support Human Rights. Now we are currently in the midst of a Design Exchange Project. The transcripts are found here.
1 Week One, 07.14.10, does anyone have a transcript? I am having technical issues with this one, and will get it up soon!
2-Iraqi_American Conversation 07.21.10
3_Iraqi _ American Conversations Week 3 07.28.10
4_Design Exchange Initial Conversation.08.04.10
5 Media Exchange Week One 08.11.10
6_Design Exchange Project Week Two 08.18.10
7 Desgin Exchange Conversation Week Three…
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1. How might we use the class room and education in general to promote change, freedom of speech and human rights? How has this been done in the past in Iraq? In the US?
2. Do students feel that they have a responsibility to change the environment around them, and if so, what is the boundary of that environment? Their class room, university, town, city, country? Should students be involved in international politics?
3. Do students make their voices heard in your present or previous school systems? If so, does it have an impact, and can you list examples of how?…
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Hello All: The general overarching topic for this week concerns curriculum and pedagogy: about the political nature of what information is taught vs. what is left out, and _how_ things are taught. How do these choices and methods affect the ability to create political change through education?
Some of the suggestions for questions thus far have been:
What is the relationship of censorship to curriculum? Have you ever been part of a school system where particular books, subjects or conversations have been banned or discouraged?
How has the internet affected teaching & learning? How do you feel it has affected…
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