Teaching with the election

Many are finding teachable moments by incorporating the election into their courses. Dr. Janice McIntyre has her reading students read a selection of articles on how the campaigns target young voters (and what young voters think) from USA Today October 6, 2008. The link has video of supposedly representative young voters from the 4 categories they fall into.

Her students do a "My view" project. They

• read the article(s),
• annotate it,
• write their reactions and
• engage in a discussion about what it all means - to them personally and to the larger community.
  

For full details of the assignment click here where it's stored on their class wiki.

We invite them to continue their discussion in the comment section of this post.