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June 23, 2009 Viral Learning? By: Cooper-Hewitt N. from New York, NY Comments: 1 I have used this resource in my classroom. I appreciate the comments and sharing the article. I have also assigned certain youtube videos and a written reaction to the video as homework. It is a fine line that teachers must tread when teaching about any controversial issue (I have practice; I teach Evolution in the South) and discussions must be based around the issue itself, express both sides; and be grounded in the scientific data that is available.

June 23, 2009

Viral Learning?

By: Cooper-Hewitt N. from New York, NY
Comments: 1

I have used this resource in my classroom. I appreciate the comments and sharing the article. I have also assigned certain youtube videos and a written reaction to the video as homework. It is a fine line that teachers must tread when teaching about any controversial issue (I have practice; I teach Evolution in the South) and discussions must be based around the issue itself, express both sides; and be grounded in the scientific data that is available.

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Posted By: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum On: 5/19/2009 11:34:51 AM Are you one of the teachers who have accessed and used the Annie Leonard video "Stuff" in your classroom to raise issues of global consumption and its environmental costs? If so, as you can see from Leslie Kaufman's article, A Cautionary Video about America's Stuff, (New York Times, May 10), you were one of many thousands of teachers, and one of many millions in total who have accessed the video since it was posted in December 2007. What's interesting, apart from the fact that the video is striking a chord with educators looking for challenging material, is the trend to bypass traditional teaching resources in favor of the immediacy and relevance of the web. Whether teachers and students are finding resources in great and innovative sites created by countless global contributors or through the you-tube phenomenon, the trend is creating a new teaching and learning space with enormous reach and power. Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/education/11stuff.html?_r=1&hp; watch the video at: https://www.storyofstuff.com/
Posted By: Jason Weinberger On: 6/23/2009 6:23:37 PM I have used this resource in my classroom. I appreciate the comments and sharing the article. I have also assigned certain youtube videos and a written reaction to the video as homework. It is a fine line that teachers must tread when teaching about any controversial issue (I have practice; I teach Evolution in the South) and discussions must be based around the issue itself, express both sides; and be grounded in the scientific data that is available.

Posted By: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
On: 5/19/2009 11:34:51 AM

Are you one of the teachers who have accessed and used the Annie Leonard video "Stuff" in your classroom to raise issues of global consumption and its environmental costs? If so, as you can see from Leslie Kaufman's article, A Cautionary Video about America's Stuff, (New York Times, May 10), you were one of many thousands of teachers, and one of many millions in total who have accessed the video since it was posted in December 2007. What's interesting, apart from the fact that the video is striking a chord with educators looking for challenging material, is the trend to bypass traditional teaching resources in favor of the immediacy and relevance of the web. Whether teachers and students are finding resources in great and innovative sites created by countless global contributors or through the you-tube phenomenon, the trend is creating a new teaching and learning space with enormous reach and power. Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/education/11stuff.html?_r=1&hp; watch the video at: https://www.storyofstuff.com/

Posted By: Jason Weinberger
On: 6/23/2009 6:23:37 PM

I have used this resource in my classroom. I appreciate the comments and sharing the article. I have also assigned certain youtube videos and a written reaction to the video as homework. It is a fine line that teachers must tread when teaching about any controversial issue (I have practice; I teach Evolution in the South) and discussions must be based around the issue itself, express both sides; and be grounded in the scientific data that is available.

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