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What do you think about Youth Voices?
UPDATE: Paul and I are doing some fundraising for a YouthVoices Summer Camp project for students. As a part of this, we are hoping to put together a short video with some testimonials about the power...
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Thinking about Trayvon and all the others
In the past, I have thought a lot about how I might die some day, in particular how I’d prefer to die. My preference has always been that I’d just go to sleep some night and never wake up. Of the other...
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What are roots of feeling agency?
I grew up in a place of torrential rain showers, often followed by scorching hot sun. The results were the fossilized black remains of worms marking out a design of twists and curves baked onto the...
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The power of sharing student work
External video: Toward the end of last night's Teachers Teaching Teachers (Listen to 1:07:04 to 1:15:27), we talked a bit about sharing student work in a public forum like Youth Voices and about some...
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Getting admin support for having students post on open networks like YV
Last week, on Teachers Teaching Teachers, a group talked about issues for those who are new to Youth Voices. A question came up about getting administrator support for students participating in open...
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Privilege, guilt, and names
On Youth Voices LIVE this month, we're talking about advantages we have.In Adam Falkner's spoken word piece, he talks about feeling guilty for something he didn't do (in this case, as a white, he never...
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How do current events affect your classroom?
Today I was on a conference all and learned about various programs of PBS NewsHour Extra, including the Teachers’ Lounge is a forum for teachers to discuss how the news affects their classroom. They...
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Youth (and teacher) Voices - May 8, 2015
A group of us were talking on TTT on Wed. about Youth Voices and what we'd like to do together next year and how we might collaborate. One idea was to do a periodic newsletter (the first of which you...
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Youth (and teacher) Voices - May 25, 2015
This is the second Youth Voices email newsletter. If you have anything you'd like to share with other YV teachers, email us! In the meantime, here are some items of interest:Dawn Reed's students are...
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"How I got there" mission
A group of us were talking on TTT last night about student inquiry process, and Sheri Edwards suggested a "How I got there" mission that would help students track their iterative inquiry process. The...
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Make an Inquiry
As a part of CLMOOC, Michael Weller and friends are doing inquiry.Here are some resource related to this project:Make an Inquiry descriptionMake an Inquiry HackpadMake an Inquiry Google DocAnd here is...
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10 things
External video: I love the 10 Self/10 World questions as a tool for generating inquiry topics and honing in on our passions.On TTT the other night, we were talking about other kinds of "10 things"...
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Connecting around topics on Youth Voices
There are many topics that YV students across the country are researching and writing about, and we want to have more ways to connect about these.Below is a document where students can add their names...
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Memes in the presidential election
On Youth Voices Live today, we talked about memes and how they are being used in the presidential election. Here were some definitions we came up with for memes: * meme: anything that goes viral (?);...
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