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Asignación Tres: Mejorando el Conocimiento sobre Puerto Rico a través de Wikipedia
No full textEl propósito de este proyecto es que los estudiantes mejoren el contenido, el alcance y la calidad de la información sobre Puerto Rico en Wikipedia, la enciclopedia más grande del mundo. El proyecto se lleva a cabo en colaboración con Wiki Education, que proporciona a los estudiantes habilidades adicionales en alfabetización mediática y digital, así como capacitación sobre la edición de contenido en Wikipedia. Los estudiantes trabajarán en el proyecto durante todo el semestre
Item 5: Tolerance Survey
Get PDFAn in-class exercise to help students consider the nature and limits of “tolerance” and civil discourse
Item 6: Assignment 2: The What, So What, Now What? Paper
Get PDFThis structured reflection assignment guides students through the analysis of a service-learning experience using the DEAL model of critical reflection. Responding to scaffolded prompts, students write a 4-5-page paper connecting their community service experience to broader course concepts, examining the social context and systems involved, and articulating their learning about civic responsibility and future action steps. Assignment is easily adapted from a paper to a presentation
Item 2: Activity 1: Gerrymandering
Get PDFThis is an activity designed to help students understand how “packing” and “cracking” is used to potentially preordain election results. It involves some student prep work outside of class, followed by collaborative work in class
Item 5: Activity 3: Incarceration
Get PDFThis is an activity that reinforces basic quantitative literacy in the context of politically-relevant data
Item 2: Activity 1– Socio-Legal Change Lessons from the US Anti-Abortion Movement
No full textThis activity requires students to identify legal goals and socio-legal methods anti-abortion advocates used to pursue their agenda in the forty-nine years between Roe v. Wade and Dobbs v. Jackson. Students are required to view two brief videos by or about self-defined pro-life advocates, read selections of a scholarly overview of the history of the anti-abortion movement, and one newspaper article reviewing pro-life advocacy tactics. On that basis they are required to identify at least six discrete examples of particular legal goals that advocates sought, the venue or jurisdiction where the change was sought, and what methods the advocates used
