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Welcome to our **//Beyond the Cupcake//** wikispace!

This is a wiki space for a group of K-12 teachers from the Richmond School District to collaboratively plan a unit. Our goal is to plan one unit together per year. Of course this unit will look different in each of our classes, but we're excited about cross-grade and cross-curricular discussion. We can always tweak/adapt for our particular audiences.

We can use this wiki space to add ideas and resources as well as to have discussions. All members can add content to this site at any point on any page. Just click on the "Edit" tab, scroll to the section of the page where you would like to add content and do so.

Below are the ideas that we came up with in our first meeting (May 13):

__ Themes: __
 * 21st Century Learning
 * Story-telling/Narrative
 * Sustainability
 * Social Justice/Responsibility
 * Hope
 * Community/Place
 * Voice
 * Freedom

__ Inquiry Questions __ What does it mean to participate in community in the 21st Century? How do you participate? - thoughtfully? Purposefully? - Critically? (skills of critical thinking and thinking critically about our expression We need to have hope and ask big questions and push ourselves in our community. The fear in the 21st Century learning is isolation and lack of community. ﻿ Questions related to sustainability”   - Are our current institutions sustainable?    - How do we think about time in the 21st century? How does this intersect with sustainability?    - What are sustainable boundaries?    - How do we think about the sustainability of resources?   What stories get told and what is the role of technology in this? With technology time is being compressed. Story telling goes into the past, present and future within a world of compressed time.   Why is having a voice important?  How do the choices I make make me who I am? What does engagement mean? What does it mean to be engaged? Related Ideas Emerging from Inquiry Questions - Voice and the 21st Century - Community fosters hope - Power shifts - Individual action supported by community - Silent students find voice online - I have been thinking a lot about the idea of "freedom" in the 21st century. What does it mean to be free? How can people be truly free? Is there such a thing as too much freedom? How do we determine this? Who determines who is free and who is not?