Planning
Designing media-making experiences that align to the common Core State Standards (CCSS) is a process that involves thinking through the ways students demonstrate learning. The process begins by thinking about which actions are most authentic to the discipline of the subject and what are the activities specific to the profession. The media making experiences can combine multiple disciplines, for example: writer and filmmaker or scientist and filmmaker. In my unit I ask students to don multiple professions – historian, writer, filmmaker and community activist. In order to achieve the goal of having students both comprehend and make meaning of their neighborhood and its relationship to Silicon Valley, students need a set of well-practiced strategies in reading, writing, thinking and creativity. Remember the goal is to create an experience that drives understanding, where students demonstrate and become active and independent learns.
My reading and writing strategies are informed by the need of students understanding are lined to the most appropriate Common Core State Standards (standards listed in appendix).
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