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"We are in the midst of history in the making! We are in a moment in time, that is unprecedented. No one has ever experienced such a crisis on a global scale with so many consequences in all areas of our lives. We are living history! This is a unique opportunity. Let’s be the historians of our families, our schools, our region, our countries, our world! Let’s be the historians of how teaching and learning is evolving. We (all of us!) can document, organize, connect, archive, and make our collective experiences available and shareable" Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
A lot of the provocations below come from Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano's blog post We are in the Midst of Making History
Look for things to document. Look for learning
What is worth documenting?
What would be interesting for future generations to know about our daily lives during the COVID-19 virus pandemic?
What could future generations learn from us? How can they learn from our mistakes?
What are you noticing in your everyday life?
What are the changes?
What skills do you have that help you cope with the new reality?
What skills do you wish you had to help you cope with the new reality?
What do we want to learn about learning?
What do we want to share about our lives?
How do you communicate with others?
How are you collaborating with others?
How are you connecting with others?
How are you being creative?
Capture your own primary sources of history
What would you want to capture in order for your children and grandchildren to have evidence of?
What would you want to capture as part of a global action research of new (remote) forms of teaching and learning?
How will you archive and organize artifacts of evidence of learning?
Record confession style videos about:
How you are feeling? What are your fears? What makes you happy? What are you occupying yourself with during your waking hours?How do you feel about learning from home without being able to meet your teacher, students and classmates? How do you stay (or feel) connected to your teacher, students, and classmates?
Make sure you record over a period of time to be able to capture changes in your thinking
Interview and film your parents, siblings or other family members or friends via video conferencing about their experience of home teaching and learning, isolation, and quarantine
Take photos of your everyday activities and environment.
Take a photo how your learning space at home looks like.
Write a journal, post to a blog or your preferred social media platform.
Write short repeated snippets of text or write longer essay types.
Record audio to capture you voice sharing your impressions, news, interpretation of what is happening in the world.
Draw a picture or illustration of your environment. Where do you teach your students from home? Where do you learn best?
Create a sketchnote of your daily routine.
Reflect on your day, experiences, learning, news, changes, etc.
How have things in your everyday life changed? What has stayed the same?
What surprises you as history is unfolding in front of our eyes?
How are things changing, the longer the quarantine is in place?
What do you wonder about?
What is becoming more important to you in your life, in education (in “doing school”)? What is less important?
Reflect on your learning skills? What are you comfortable with? What type of learning makes you uncomfortable?
What is not necessarily better or worse in teaching and learning, but what is different?
Share your learning, experiences, reflections of this moment in history
How will you make your documentation (if in analog form) shareable?
What platform will lend itself best to share your documentation?
What hashtags are best to use on different platforms to connect to and share with a specific audience?
How will you share with family, friends, and people you have not met in person?
Amplify beyond your own walls
How do you connect with others, who might be able to share your documentation with a larger audience?
How can you see your documentation as part of a larger world history documentation? How do you connect your documentation to others?
How can you see your documentation as one perspective of many, as one puzzle piece of a larger picture? How do you add your documentation to others?
How can you see your documentation as one moment in time in a long timeline of world history. How do you make your voice heard in this moment in time and in the future?