Service Learning and Civic Participation
The Maricopa Learning Exchange is another site I love. I think I have mentioned it before. It is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources (featured as packing slips- like that concept too) that support student learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges. Recently this package came to the warehouse, Service Learning and Civic Participation. Roselyn Turner from Estrella Mountain Community College contributed the package. These community colleges are really doing good things.The goals for the assignment are critical thinking skills, communication skills, focus on the globe as the community, activism during the course and lifelong activism. As I read it I kept thinking that something like this is just made to order for students on blogs. You could adapt it a little and it would be great to use as a springboard for writing on blogs. Let’s get our students tacking issues of the world!
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