A Post Copied from another Blog
This is a description of an MYP Individuals and Societies unit I helped work on at KAS. Since I am afraid it will be taken down, I decided to copy it over here. This post was copied over from the Share blog where we could help spread the good teaching at the school. That was one of the many ideas I copied from SIS. === Jen and I met about this unit way back in October. She wanted to design a unit that incorporated elements of gaming. After meeting with her to discuss which unit she would be doing, when it would happen, what she wanted to accomplish with this unit [student outcomes], we both went off and did a little research to gather more ideas. I came across many articles, but then I came across Paul Swanson’s blog. He is a technology coordinator at UNIS Hanoi and had experience assisting a middle school humanities teacher, Kelsey Giroux , gamify her unit. At our next meeting, Jenn had a better idea of the direction she wanted to take, so I ad...