Orange Exceleration - Day 4

Today we had a 2 hour class that was only supposed to be 1.75 hours (oops).  We chose six social justice themes:

• Environmental Justice
• Educational Justice
• Minority Justice
• Political Justice (To be continued later)

Then the class split into two parts.  One part worked on Class rules and expectations.  The other part worked on filling in content for the two weeks for each Justice topic.  At the end of class, each group presented on their ideas.  Students were sent home with the assignment of continuing to work on their topics with a goal of evening out the amount of work each week.  I suggest:

• No more than one debate per week.
• No more than two writing assignment per week with the ability of students to have choices on what they are going to write.
• Variety of modes of learning.

Meanwhile, as I am working on class, I am listening to a radio show on "Custom Learning in the Digital Age" that might be interesting for students in the Scholars Program.