Instead of face-to-face class on Thursday, Oct 27th...

We will NOT have class on Thursday, Oct 27th.

You will instead create a timeline/history of American education. You can complete this any time -- before class would normally meet, the day of class, during our class time on Thursday.... but it must be completed by noon on Friday, Oct 28th. (I am confident you will thank me for not allowing it to drag on!)

Expect to spend 3 hours working on this. You certainly have the option of doing this alone, but I MUCH prefer you do it together. I am totally certain that what you come up with together will be better than what each of you can do on your own.

I expect you to use divergent thinking with this activity...This is what we've been talking about. Don't do what comes easy...do what comes creatively!

You will post this on your blog under the obvious title History of American Education. If you all four work on it, you each post the same creation (many hands make light the work?).

As we discussed in class, you might want to check out "Jing"...there are other resources as well--you likely know about some I've never heard of! Surprise me with your brilliance! Actually, I know you're brilliant, so that won't surprise me. Instead, surprise me with your clever and creative divergent thinking!

Please read the handout "Introduction to History of Education."  It at least has some "landmarks" you may want to loosely follow. Here is a link to a video that is rather clever. It's the one I talked about in class. It's not the best I've seen, but again, it's pretty clever. It at least gives you a sense of something someone else has done. I LOVE the music he chose. :-) So appropriate...You may also check out this link, which gives you a lot of resources to read about and then create your own timeline/history of education. This one is interesting because it's been done by the Research Center for Racial Justice.

Again, I don't want to limit your creativity. There is MUCH to pull from when creating this history (or timeline). YOU (and your compadres) have to decide what's the most important to include. Let me know right away if you have questions...