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The curriculum for the Sing'isi - Nantucket Cultural Exchange Project creates a dialog between the Hopefully English School and the Nantucket Boys & Girls Club. It is designed to generate discussions that will lead to interdependent learning, bridging the culture barrier and promoting understanding and peace. Help this conversation grow by contributing feedback.
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Within your small group, discuss the project.
How exactly does it work?
Think about all the steps talked about– discussions, drafts, final revisions, posting the letters on HatchFlight.Org, making the artwork, etc.
What happens when the letter is “sent”?
How does technology help to get it get where it’s going?
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As a group, write a letter to your new Global Partners.
Introduce yourselves. Tell them who you are and what you like to do.
Ask questions. It’s up to you!
Include your description of how the letters and artwork are sent and received.
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Read the letter aloud in your small group and talk about it.
Remember to write down and talk about any questions your partners may have asked so you can answer them later.
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As a group, make a work of art that explains how the exchange works. Assume that the viewer has never heard of this project before and doesn’t know a thing about it. You can do this anyway you like just as long as it’s visual.
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In your small group, write a statement about how communication can help make peace and understanding possible.
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Look at the art that your Global Partners made!
What do you think?
How would you describe the place and people where you live?
Be honest. Write about the good and the bad.
What you wish you could change and what you hope will never change.
What makes your home different from other parts of the country?
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As a group, write a letter to your new Global Partners.
You can write or ask about anything you wish, as long as it’s respectful.
Remember to answer any questions they may have asked you!
Include in the letter your groups’ description of your hometown.
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Read the letter aloud in your small group and talk about it.
Is their process different or the same?
What about their theory of how the technology works?
Remember to write down and talk about any questions your partners may have asked so you can answer them later.
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As a group, make a work of art that represents your Global Partner's hometown based on what you have learned.
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Describe the similarities and the differences between your hometown and theirs.
What have you learned about your partners and the place that they live?
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Look at the art your Global Partners made!
What do you think?
What are your hopes and dreams?
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As a group, write a letter to your Global Partners.
Each individual should write about their own hopes and dreams.
You can write or ask about anything else you wish.
Remember to answer any questions your partners may have asked you!
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Read the letter aloud in your small group and talk about it.
Remember to write down and talk about any questions your partners may have asked so that you can answer them later.
What are your partners’ hopes and dreams?
In what ways are they similar to your own?
In what ways are they different?
Are there ways we can help each other?
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Make a work of art that shows the hopes and dreams of both groups.
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Write a statement describing the hopes and dreams of each individual in the two groups.
What commonalities are there?
Are there ways to help each other accomplish these goals?
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Look at the art your Global Partners made!
What do you think?
If you could visit your Global Partners, what would you like to do?
If they could come and visit where you live, where would you take them? What would you do with them?
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As a group, write a letter to your new Global Partners.
Tell your partners what you would like to do if you could visit them, and what you would like to do if they came to visit you.
You can write or ask about anything else you wish.
Remember to answer any questions they may have asked you!
This is the last letter of the project, but you can keep up the exchange if you wish; all you have to do is ask!
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Read the letter aloud in your small group and talk about it.
What do you think it would be like to go to the place your partners live?
What do you think it would be like to show them around your hometown?
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Each individual will make a work of art to give someone in the other group.
This project is free choice; you decide what to make and how.
Give it your best!
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What have you learned from this project?
How well did you get to know your partners?
How has your understanding of your partners and the place they live grown and changed?
How have you grown and changed since starting this project?
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The "digital gap" is the disparity between those whose opportunities for advancement are enabled by access to the Internet and technology and those whose possibilities for development are limited by inaccessibility. What does this mean to you? What affects does it have on the global community?
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Lets open a dialog about learning. Through sharing multiple perspectives on teaching methods educators and students will enrich their experiences together.
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Taken from a post by Cory Shepherd: "What are the hallmarks common to Tanzanian education? How can the adaptation of these practices enrich American pedagogy?"
For reference I have copied the definition of pedagogy from the American Heritage Dictionary and pasted it below:
ped·a·go·gy (pĕd'ə-gō'jē, -gŏj'ē)
n.
1. The art or profession of teaching.
2. Preparatory training or instruction.
I would like to stress that pedagogy is a process that evolves. It must adapt by reacting to new environments, and should be constantly refined to keep it in tune. In addition to Cory's question I will ask the complement. What are the rubicons of American Education? How can Tanzanian educators adapt these methods to suite their students needs?
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