I came up with an idea to use Facebook in the classroom. The aim is to get middle school and high school students to see history everywhere around them. Everyday, everywhere, we see remnants of the past and the past is being formed around us. This project hopes to make students take notice of it.
They will be asked to upload photos of historical sites they visit or come across in day to day life. Since most kids that age have a Facebook account and a phone with camera capabilities this should be no difficult task. They should include a blurb, just a sentence or two, about the site they have posted. Each will be given a quota of pics to upload, and above that they will have to add information to others' posts. What they add made be common knowledge or information they have researched, and must be in their own words. Myself and a couple classmates have been modeling this and have shared about 10 photos each. Truly, it has been educational.
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