Global+Investigation

toc =**Investigate the World:** = **Produce New Global Knowledge**
 * Generate and explain the personal & societal significance of locally, regionally, or globally focused topics or questions.
 * Examine approaches & actions that have been taken to address these topics/questions question in the past
 * Analyze the context in which they occurred, and evaluate proposed/enacted solutions
 * Research a topic of local, societal, or global significance and report to our community
 * Utilize a variety of international sources, media, methods, and languages to locate, gather and analyze the knowledge and evidence required to answer this specific research question.
 * Develop an argument/position based on compelling evidence that considers multiple perspectives and draws defensible conclusions.

Monday, 9/13

Shift Happens - part 1

 * Check-In** - How do you fit in our world? (life experiences, goals, lessons learned, questions, etc)

//**Activities:**// - Class Syllabus & Contracts Review - Class Website - //Introduction, "Marking Periods", "Class Calendar"// - Homework

//1 - Zoom// activity (wordless picture book by Istvan Banyai)
 * watch a video based on the book, //Zoom//
 * choose a //Zoom// image that represents your time at CSI HSIS or a memorable academic experience
 * record your findings - (record = explain)
 * introduce yourself and explain choice of //Zoom// image
 * Watch 2nd version of video and answer debrief in your notebook

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2 - Debrief: //How did the process of choosing images relate to your experiences at CSI?// //What does the video suggest about the world?// (different perspectives, interconnectedness)

3 - Introduce "one-pager" / course overview / class website

 Tuesday, 9/14
 * Homework #1 - Class Syllabus & Contracts Signed & Returned - DUE 9/15 **

Shift Happens- part 2

 * Check-In** - Reflect on the period of time covering your life. What changes in our //world// are most noticeable?

DO Now: create a **SAMPLE Graphic Organizer **

//**Activities:**// 1. Students will record feedback/questions to the following topics:

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 * Debrief graphic organizer - Similarities & Differences in Video?**

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//The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learners will have. . . 10 to 14 jobs. . .by their 38th birthday.// //Many of today’s college majors didn’t exist 10 years ago. What will they study 10 years from now? We are living in exponential times.// //The amount of technical information is doubling every two years. By 2010, it’s predicted to double. . . every 72 hours.// //We are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don’t yet exist. . . in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.//
 * Sample Notes : (You can use these facts but be sure to have MORE then just them in NB)**

2. Debrief __Questions for Discussion:__ //What stood out to you?// //What do the messages of the video(s) mean to you?// //How do you think you are you meant to respond to these videos?//

//Are you a global leader who uses social networking? BE AWARE! "They" are watching - CBS News Report// "Uh-Oh" - don't get any ideas! Bad news for a "friend" - google question post "But I deleted my page" - REALLY!?!?!! - not so fast

3. Homework - ** Assignment #2 Due - Thurs. 9/16 **

- Post a "one pager" on our blog page based on your work during Shift Happens

**  **
 * Wednesday, 9/15 **

Introduction to Global Leadership and Web 2.0
//**Check-In: How can you be a global leader as a sophomore in high school?**//

//**DO NOW:**// //** List the five (5) facts you learned from yesterdays video that resonated / most related / "stuck" to you. Explain how each makes you feel, think, wonder, etc. **//

//"FACT 1 - this makes me feel because... OR ... This made me think that __.... OR ..... This made me wonder___"//

Activities: 1 - Debrief "Shift Happens" with Do Now responses 2 - Social Networking discussion
 * scale of 1-10 how important is social networking in your life?
 * how many hours a week do you think the average high school student spends on SNS?

** Homework - Assignment #2 Due - Thurs. 9/16  **

- Post a "one pager" on our blog page based on your work during Shift Happens

** Thursday, 9/16 ** //**Check-In: How can you be a global leader as a sophomore in high school?**//

//**DO NOW:**// //** List the five pros an five cons of social netowrking **//

//** Activities: **//

- Squidoo Website - click here - CBS NEWS - "Friend me" - click here - Facebook Help - who wants to be me? - click here
 * PROS & CONS of Social Networking

Respond ABC NEWS REPORT on cyber bullying

**Friday, 9/17**

//**Check-In:** What is your concept of a global leader?// Express in a word (individually), and discuss (discuss=explain) Alternative - create a non-linguistic representation, discuss & share

1. Watch the video - Imagine Leadership a video by the organization [|XPLANE]

//Six-minute video asks viewers to imagine how leadership can address some of the most pressing problems in the world, including a vibrant economy, society, and environment//

media type="custom" key="6696745" //Notes on video & creators:// Nitin Nohria and Amanda Pepper attend business school at Harvard and are a part of a leadership collaboration with XPLANE. Together they created this video to generate discussion regarding the value & importance of global leadership to help address some of our worlds most pressing problems.

//"It is my desire to inspire people of all ages and social demographics to think about leadership on a broad level, contemplate what it means to them and what individual impact they can have when it comes to leading," says Nohria//

2. Debrief video using the [|Microlab] protocol in triads (be sure to follow the [|Microlab Guidelines]


 * What part of the message resonated most with you?
 * What do you think is the author's intended message of the video?
 * What are you feeling and thinking after seeing the video?

3. Add to word and non linguistic representations, share out new insights 4. Computer Distribution - students are assigned laptops
 * Homework: ** #3 **-** Global Leadership & Web 2.0 "one-pager" **-** Post on class blog - Due Monday, 9/20

Read cover story from [|Time magazine's person of the year 2006] //Click on the link and select "Read Cover Story"//
 * Homework #4 -** Passage Finder for Time Magazine Article **-** post on class blog - Due Tuesday 9/21



[|Save the Last Word for Me]
 * 1) Select a sentence or short passage from the text that you would like to discuss on our blog.
 * 2) Introduce your selection - give location, exact quote
 * 3) Let everyone know why this selection stood out for you - this is your chance to explain
 * 4) While you wait for others to respond to your post, you comment on another student post
 * You must comment on a post without feedback before adding multiple comment to existing posts
 * 1) Post "The last Word" - read student feedback on your post and offer the final thought

You should have 3 posts for this assignment when you are done.

**  ** Monday & Tuesday - 9/20 & 9/21 Note - 9/21 is International Day of Peace =The Power of Social Media =
 * Check-In:** Questionnaire: //Have you ever . . .//
 * 1) posted a customer review on a shopping site such as Amazon.com?
 * 2) posted a comment on a news story or blog?
 * 3) posted a video to the web?
 * 4) posted photos on the web?

How about your parents? grandparents? How did consumers and citizens get this kind of information in the past? - answer can be opinion

//Activities:// 1. Discussion - What has been your experience with customer service phone calls? (can be "hearsay" examples) Will Richardson tweets complaint about Orbitz, gets call from customer service ([|brief story])

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During //On the Media// host Bob Garfield, he explains that we are in the middle of a new world order.He wrote //The Chaos Scenario,// to investigate the digital revolution and feels it will destroy mass media, and make any individual - even you - the next millionaire.

4. Read "The Chaos Scenario", by Bob Garfield 5. Actively Read the passage (Record Notes) & Participate in class discussion

Part 2 - Power of Social Media - 9/21

Activities: //Watch the video by Charles Leadbeater on the ideas of "Mass Innovation"// //Social Media Website Creation//
 * Check In:** What does it mean that "the audience is taking to the stage" in terms of : "mass innovation" //**re: you are what you share**?//

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Additional Resource:[|Charles Leadbeater on innovation] (TED)

1 - Remember discussion on "name" 2 - Be sure to have a 2nd alternative email on sign up for password recovery (can be a parent/guardian) 3 - Email Mr.Miano@gmail.com for grade
 * Homework #5 ** - Create a Gmail Account - (appropriate usage) - Due Wed, 9/22

 Thursday, 9/23

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 * Check-In :** What does the word "citizen" mean to you? EXPLAIN

Power on laptop and open to today's lesson on our class website

Activities: 1. Watch the video with [|Clay Shirky: How social media can make history]

//While news from Iran travels the globe, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, eliminating (however short). Can this eliminate **top-down control** of news and change the nature of politics?//

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"citizen" "many to many pattern" "producer and consumer" [prosumer] role of social media in 2008 election

HW - Create a brainstorm of words & phrases on the topic "Social Media" for your Wordle assignment tomorrow.

Friday, 9/24 DO NOW: Power on laptops and create your Wordle.

1. Collaborative WORDLE - create a WORDLE using student HW notes from the Clay Shirky video on Social Media

Monday, 9/27 - Power of Social Media, Cont'd
 * Check-In**: What were my experiences with social media this weekend? List examples where you saw it being used in our society, not just "I was on facebook"...

Activities:

1. Read the NY Times article "How Obama used Social Networking" by D. Carr (11.9.2008) 2. Actively read article - take notes of important ideas, facts, quotes, etc in your notebook 3. Break into small groups 4. Written Conversation Write a quote or question on your groups chart paper to get the conversation started. Each person reads and respond to what's on the paper. Repeat. Discuss the conversations on the paper & prepare a summary presentation for class. Debrief the activity. (Exit Pass)

Additional Resource: Exhibit at the[| Newseum]

HW - **"One Pager" in Wordle form!** Brainstorm on everything we have done since day 1. Create a word cloud that will be used for your [|Wordle]. When compelted & published o the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Wordle] website submit by one of the following: 1 - Email the URL of your published <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Wordle] to **mr.miano@gmail.com** 2 - Print your <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Wordle] and hand in

**  ** <span style="display: block; font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Tuesday, 9/28

Explain what you feel are the social responsibilities of all global citizens in regards to reporting/publishing on the web //Social responsibility in light of globalization and the new technology landscape - **Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0**// //**Response should be a well developed paragraph at minimum**//
 * Check-In:**

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//Web 2.0 means anyone with internet access can contribute content to the web.// //What are the implications for you? as a consumer? as a producer?//

[|The Video Republic] A new arena of public information has emerged, and is spreading through the internet,TV, etc. It is the idea of **Video Republic** : //an alternative/different era of creation and exchange.//

Who inhabits/lives, shapes and regulates the Video Republic and what is its future?

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Video is changing young people into reporters, commentators, distributors, directors, spokesmen for their own lives, beliefs, and opinions This is a new public realm, a virtual community, an expressive democracy. . . be a part of it. The video republic is growing. But if it's democracy, do politicians have any business here? If it's free speech, should everyone be able to make a video? If it's public space, should private companies own it? It's time to connect the energy in the video republic with the mainstream.
 * "One Pager" - Post on Class Blog for classwork grade (Social Responsibility "One Pager")**

Four corners activity: agree, disagree, strongly agree, strongly disagree

Social responsibility and global leadership: What is your role? How do you see your role now? What are you thinking about after the last few classes? About Global Leadership? About Web 2.0? About how these new ways of thinking might be connected?
 * Homework #6 - Class Blog (My Role in Social) **

Wednesday, 9/29

**Check-In:** Define Blogging. How can/does it play an important role in our society?

Activities: Respond to check in to fit "formal" definition

Watch - Blogs in Plain English video

Students search and view high interest & low interest blogs, noting positive/effective features as well as negative/ineffective features of each site - students should view a minimum of 2 blog sites.

Thursday, 9/30

**Check-In:** Power on laptop. Post on class blog (Visions of a blog) the vision of YOUR BLOG - if you were to have a highly followed blog, what would it be about? who would follow you? what types of conversations/sharing would occur? what features would your blog site include?

Youth Voices suggestions - Students review Students respond to yesterdays posts using suggestions

Students find 2 student posts who were "appropriate" according to Youth Voices and 2 that can use improvement - MAKE THE IMPROVEMENTS

Friday, 10/1 =<span style="display: block; font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**So What? Now What?** = Check-In:
 * BE APPROPRIATE & RESPECTFUL**

Class Discussion - Projects #1 & 2 (class time to work on it, __)__

Activities: 1. Respond to President Obama's challenge with an "I Am What I Learn" video - click here

**-OR-** 2. Or contribute a piece of writing to [|The National Gallery of Writing][|(Leadership Gallery)]

===<span style="display: block; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**The Machine is Us/ing Us** === Video by [|Michael Wesch] "Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes. [Wesch] was inspired to make this video while writing a paper about web 2.0. Struggling to find a way to put it into words, [he] decided to make this video to show it rather than tell it."

Poetic transcription of the video available [|here on Wesch's blog]

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Digital text is above all…hyper. hypertext can link With form separated from content, users did not need to know complicated code to upload content to the web, "There's a blog born every half second." and it’s not just text… two sites can “mash” data together Who will organize all of this data? we will we are the web

Web 2.0 is linking people… …people sharing, tracing, and collaborating… We’ll need to rethink copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves

Debrief video with gallery walk/chalk talk protocol - key terms each on different piece of chart paper around the room: //copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves//

Questions for Discussion How is the new media landscape having us re-think. . . What will these things look like as a result of Web 2.0?

Go to Wordle and click "create" Type/Paste brainstorm of words into text box Click "Go" & publish your Wordle Copy the code below your Wordle (begins with <a href="http://www.wordle.net) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px; white-space: normal;">Go to our class Wordle Gallery <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px; white-space: normal;">Click "Edit" and type your name in a blank space on page <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px; white-space: normal;">Click "Widget" in the toolbar above <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px; white-space: normal;">Click "Other" & Paste the Wordle Code. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px; white-space: normal;">When you save you should see a "Other Widget" box under your name <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px; white-space: normal;">Click Save in the toolbox and you should see your widget
 * HW: Due Monday, 10/4** - CLASS WORDLE - publish on Wordle Gallery- "I am the Machine"

__**HOMEWORK**__ **-** ** Project #1 ** - (Persuasive Writing) - Due Tuesday 10/8 - 100 points - Refer to Paper Guidelines

//Additional Resources://
 * Global Chaos Paper ** (from class notes 9/16 & 9/17 - Power of Social Media)


 * TOTN Interview with Mr. Garfield
 * on 8/6/2009 (Lego Story starts @ 12:34)
 * We-Think, by Charles Leadbeater (chapters 1-3 are online)
 * Read Text Rendering Experience, pages 3-4 in Chapter 1
 * Watch a Youtube Animation video outlining the ideas presented in his book

//Additional Resources://
 * Social Responsibility & Global Leadership Paper ** (refer to class notes 9/15, 9/20-9/22)

**  ** <span style="display: block; font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Monday, 10/4** <span style="display: block; font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> Digging into your Topic Ideas


 * Check-in:** At this point in your academic career, what's been most helpful and most challenging about the process of exploring possible research topics?

//Activities:// Are we information overloaded?

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- Shift Happens - Global Leadership & Web 2.0 - Power of Social Media - Citizen Journalism - Social Responsibility in the new technical landscape
 * Research Topics:**

Exit Pass - In our Class Discussion page, post our ides for which topic you will dig into

** **    **Tuesday, 10/5** ** Bookmarking and Tagging to Organize Your Research **

===<span style="display: block; font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**The Information Re/volution** === Watch the Video by [|Prof. Michael Wesch] (for more from Wesch, visit his [|Mediated Cultures/Digital Ethnography] website) Watch the video [|"Information R/evolution"] by [|Michael Wesch] This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively.
 * Check-In** - You have just been assigned the task to write a research report that compares the political system of the United States to that of Europe. Describe your research process.

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Social Bookmarking in Plain English from [|Common Craft]

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Introduction to your [|Diigo social bookmarking] account - Practice bookmarking, tagging, highlighting, and annotating using Diigo Introduction to Google Bookmarking

** Wednesday - Friday, 10/6-10/8 ** **Check-In** - Watch or Review "The Networked Student" video. Complete a reflection on the information provided in the video. Post your response on the Class Discussion page. Use Active Reading Strategies to develop your answer.

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">The Networked Student === The Networked Student video was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler's high school students. The Networked Student concept map was inspired by Alec Couros' Networked Teacher.

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<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Part 1 - Internet Research**

 * Successfully @Searching the Internet during the research process
 * Be SURE to use Step FOUR - advanced search techniques

====<span style="font-size: 149.24%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Part 2 - Identifying Your Research Topic / Question** ====
 * Students complete Pre-Search Brainstorming Exercise

<span style="font-size: 149.24%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Part 3 - Locating Information in the Digital Age**

 * Debrief the search strategies and process from last class
 * Go to **Step 5** in @Searching the Internet for credibility-using different outlines/questions
 * Complete of of the following worksheets on any of the sites bulleted in **Step 5**: **Practice Evaluating Websites**
 * [|HS Web Evaluation.pdf]
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Web Page Evaluation Checklist]
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Web Site Evaluation Form]
 * **Print and submit for HW on Tuesday, 10/11**

<span style="font-size: 149.24%; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Part 4 - Starting the Research Process**
Synthesize advice on the research process from various resources Use the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Etherpad] to create collaborative outline of Tips for Identifying your Research Topic

**HW - DO Tuesday, 10/11** 1 - Complete the following worksheets on any 3 of the sites bulleted in **Step 5**: **Practice Evaluating Websites**
 * <span style="cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">[|HS Web Evaluation.pdf]
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Web Page Evaluation Checklist]
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Web Site Evaluation Form]

2 - Choose your research topic & begin the research process with a brainstorming organizer 3 - Create your Google Account using appropriate name (first initial last name, full name no spaces, etc.)
 * Work is to be saved on flashdrive


 * HOMEWORK NOTE - If you can not print the handouts, you may save them and email them to** mr.miano@gmail.com **,** ONLY if there is printer problem/issue.

Thursday 10/7 in class Complete [|HS Research Organizer.doc] found in **STEP 1 for HW, due Tuesday 10/12**