Gifted and Talented in the 21st Century » election http://talentedandgifted.edublogs.org A blog on technology and gifted education Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:58:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Election and debates, making it real for GT students http://talentedandgifted.edublogs.org/2007/10/19/election-and-debates-making-it-real-for-gt-students/ http://talentedandgifted.edublogs.org/2007/10/19/election-and-debates-making-it-real-for-gt-students/#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:09:59 +0000 mdeckstein http://talentedandgifted.edublogs.org/2007/10/19/election-and-debates-making-it-real-for-gt-students/ Technology continues to change the way the world functions.  Tech President joined forces with the New York Times, and MSNBC  to launch 10Questions.com, an online presidential debate that’s a fascinating mix of video blogging, tagging and user-generated content.  This is another great way to use Web 2.0 technologies with gifted students. Why not have students brainstorm a few questions to ask the presidential candidates.  Students could vote on the questions to come up with a list of 3 or 4 really good questions. Then play 4 corners, have students select the question that they want to work on.  They create a video of their question and post it according to the rules specified at  10Questions.com .  This is a great way to get students thinking about

1.        What are the big issues in the presidential election this year?

2.      What issues or platforms are they personally concerned about and how do their personal view affect how they view the candidates.

3.      How can they use technology to get involved in the political process?

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