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__ Welcome SED 552 Wesch Week Bloggers! __
"Wesch argues that the world is interconnected and we must teach the kids in that world. Wen teachers create significance students recognize their importance as co-creators in the learning process."
 * WESCH'S ARGUMENT**


 * What is ANTI-TEACHING?**
 * Student led
 * Not just answering questions
 * Student inquiry
 * Doing
 * Guiding students
 * Not working harder than your students
 * resisting (subversive)
 * open to change
 * not teaching to the test
 * teaching
 * focus on learning over teaching
 * creating an experience
 * teacher take the back seat/guide for the ride
 * student choice/input

**COLLABORATIVE ANTI-TEACHING PROJECTS:**

TOPIC: Middle Eastern Culture and Honor Killlings (interconnectedness of the world)
 * 1) Kathy, Sarah and Shannon**

a) Begin with a novel: The Breadwinner

b) Student research projects on specific related topics (student choice) Kids pick own partners and topics Collaborate on class rubric Students would teach their subjects to the class using any means they want to (technology and other visuals)

c) Lead into unit on Honor Killings define oxymoron Higher order questions to lead the discussion

TOPIC: PD Workshop using Wesch and Anti-Teaching
 * 2) Jim and Ray**

a) Present data from wesch video b) Focus on the Wesch Text to introduce the basic concepts c) What is anti-teaching? Why and how? d) Focus on the tools needed to impolement



TOPIC: FACEBOOK Pages for characters, maths symbols, historical figures
 * 3 )Jen, Diana, Morgan and Kristin**

a) Create specific criteria to support student independence: status, 3 friends, 3 comments on friends pages, what groups belong to?

b) Either have kids create poster -- assessment by peers or teacher

Or

c) Ongoing inline where students USE the technology to create a live experinece for all student to use throughout the semester. Groups would be responsible for a specific character Students would maintain the FB page throughout the semester, adding friends, events, etc as the unit progressed.

This is not just answering questions but making meaningful stuff



TOPIC: Introductory activities for music class Teaching kids how to listen to music and how to create (not just consume)
 * 4) Seth**

Use HitRecord.org Collaboration over the website

using photographs music and recordings -- create poems, music and other creative enterprises Teacher guidance on theme and concepts that inspire them swap ideas



Advisory Project -- PREZI
 * 5) Tina and Maureen**

a) Not Waiting on the World to Change (analyze the lyrics) b) Historical change (how young people have been agents of change) -- five groups of three to research these people and rport back c) Today's Change -- use websites to research current teens who make a difference and present d) NOW YOU -- brainstorm with partners and groups to talk about how they make change in their own lives, families, communities e) Create Service Learning Project to implement (kids as active learners, creating from their belief system)

Also, don't forget to check out the live binder at the link below, specifically the "Presentation" tab:
@http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=132810