Low-tech methods to teach 21st Century Learners
One of my favorite type of activities to do with students in my 9th and 10th grade language arts classes is to incorproate social media into lessons. I like to have students make Facebook pages for characters in stories, create Twitter feeds for characters and write blog posts that allow them to compare issues in a text with issues that are faced in our society today. While this all sounds great in practice, I quickly learned that making my dream of seamless socian media integreation into a reality was a little harder than I thought it would be. To combat the lack of technology and firewall issues that have stopped me from incorporating Twitter, Facebook and blogging into my classes, I have come up with low-tech paper-and-pencil replacements. Below are three sample low-tech activities I do with my students in place of their web-based counterparts. Click on the name of each project to view the handout for each project. R+J 140 http://goo.gl/Q...