Goal:
To actively engage our students in a learning process that is grounded in service, citizenship, and ethical awareness.
Challenge
Thoughtful integration of service, citizenship, and ethical awareness requires a close examination of curriculum and pedagogy. Recognizing that we are located in a small rural state with limited resources we must think of new ways to unite these concepts with course material.
Approach
Technology allows for wide and varied opportunities for students to engage in ethical awareness, serivce, and citizenship from a global perspective. We can address these three concepts and offer opportunities for students to engage with communities unique from our own.
Desired Outcome
NOTES:
Further, studies indicate that student reflection is a predictor of openness to new ideas, ability to see issues in a new way, “increased commitment to use of public policy to achieve social justice, and a more systemic locus of problem causes and solutions" (Eyler & Giles). While laudable goals they are not without challenges. In addition, technology can support open student reflection on their experience and how their understanding of civic engagement has changed.
Eyler, J., & Giles, D. E., Jr. (1999). Where's the learning in service-learning? San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/fact_sheets/k-12_facts/reflection
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