My Discovery Education Board (I Followed the Steps on the Wilkes Live message board, if you have any trouble let me know!)
I can see a couple ways that a board tool like this could help my students develop their ethical and respectful minds. From a convenience standpoint a tool like this helps put everything you need into one place. What this does is helps the teacher create and maintain a respectful online environment. Something that we as a class have continually talked about is how to create an environment of safety and respect. These board apps help to do this by allowing the teacher to control the inputs.
In terms of the ethical mind, I think that comes in both the content and the board itself. What is great about these boards is that once you have a template or two set up, you can swap out concepts and assignments to create a plethora of discussion activities that allow students to think about, express, and create new ideas in a teacher-controlled environment. One of the biggest challenges we face as teachers is finding the time to create things like these boards. If we can have these projects already pulled up and ready to go, it becomes much easier to find time to implement these ideas.
The boards, through their content, also can spark discussions that may not otherwise occur. My board is on the Plebeians and Patricians, the two biggest classes in Roman society. By showing the differences between the two groups I can draw connections to problems we face in the modern day, a discussion I would probably never have otherwise. What was originally a history lesson now has evolved into students looking at issues from different perspectives, contemplating what it means to be a fair and caring person, which is what the ethical mind is all about.
I can see these boards having a lot of potential in my class. I'm looking forward to playing around with theses tools and seeing what else I may be able to come up with!
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