Well, I’ve been reading a few more chapters of Project-based Learning with my unit in mind. Good timing! I’ve been writing down ideas like crazy. The basic premise of the unit is debate and persuasive language.
Here are my notes: give groups of students pro and con sides of an issue, they read together and highlight best arguments before beginning debate with todaysmeet.com and ipod touches; Show examples of strong vs. weak arguments, have students rate; Reflect/review The Great Debaters movie using todaysmeet and ipod touches; Have students reflect at least a few times during the unit on their wiki pages; Use wiki as project home: post examples of persuasive writing, use calendar, checklists, rubric, and jing screencasts; Use screencasts to give feedback on writing; find student debate examples on youtube; search the internet to find out if there are online debates students could participate in; require an interview as a source for the persuasive paper; students use wiki to collect and organize notes or other web-based organizer like Desire2Learn of Moodle; check out research tools: ASK for Kids, del.icio.us bookmarking and Citation Machine; have students read draft to an adult, record questions or alternative viewpoints to address.
Wow- looks like I’ve got a plethora of ideas to research and consider in order to make this unit engaging, motivating, and effective for my students. I'd better get to work!
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