Claire Ahn, an Assistant Professor of Multiliteracies in the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University, provides a framework to engaging students in film analysis (in the classroom and online) as well as access to film units and resources.
Facing History's 'Close Viewing Protocol' is also a great resource that explores questions surrounding what the filmmaker is trying to convey, the choices the filmmaker has made, the role of images, narration, editing, and sound, and what the film’s purpose might be.
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Topics:
English Language Arts,
Film,
Innovative Classrooms,
Online Learning,
Lesson Ideas,
English Classroom,
Tech Innovation,
Facing Canada,
Digital Learning,
Creative
If you have ever travelled to Brantford Ontario Canada, you might have been excited to visit the home of Alexander Graham Bell to learn about the invention of the telephone. You might have come for a hockey tournament and had the privilege of meeting Hockey Legend Wayne Gretzky’s father Walter, who loves hanging out at the rinks. You may have picked up brochures with beautiful pictures of the Grand River or did research about Joseph Brant, who was the negotiator between the Mohawk and British during the American Revolution. But you might not know that Brantford is the home of the first residential school in Canada; that the building still stands with the names of children carved into the bricks and that it is one of the few residential school buildings still standing in Canada.
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Topics:
Art,
Survivor Testimony,
Residential Schools,
Indigenous History,
Culturally Responsive and Relevant Pedagogy,
Indigenous,
Lesson Ideas,
Facing Canada,
Creative,
Woodland Cultural Centre
In this blog post, British Columbia educator Lindsay Hutchison shares how she engaged her Genocide 12 course students in an inquiry project on resistance during the Holocaust. She walks us through the design and reflection behind this project and shares her assignment outline and several of the students' creative responses.
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Topics:
Genocide/Collective Violence,
Holocaust Education,
resistance,
Genocide and Crimes Against Humanities Course,
Holocaust and Human Behaviour,
Inquiry,
Creative
