OER Conference for Social Studies After Party // 2023

Dr Yohuru Williams, your presentation is epic!   I would love to plaster my classroom walls with all the slides of your presentation. 

Thank you Dr.Williams for great conversation.

Love the way you pointed out our fight for democracy and many political documents and documents, and quotes

Thank you Dr. Williams for a great conversation.

I kept waiting for you to pass the offering plate! What a beautiful presentation - so reminiscient of powerful pastors in our past who could inspire and challenge us to new challenges and horizons. 

I think a great mini project would be "Conversations across time" where you give students a chance to have an historical dialogue between figures using primary sources.  Dr. Williams kept referencing the idea of modern quotes continuing the conversation of historical quotes so curate some sources and have students carry on a conversation through primary sources ending in modern news coverage.  A quick start would be to pick through quotes in the slides.  But imagine taking ideas of law codes and quoting Hammurabi "the first rule of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful" and then continuing the idea of protecting the powerless throughout time and place to the US idea of majority rules, and minority rights.  So many issues you could cover 

My department is a little hesitant to teach with primary sources - and I think that this idea of teaching by proxy and commenting by proximity is such a cool way to expose historical trends over time and be a guide rather than the well of knowledge and learning. I want to share the way Dr. Williams set it up intentionally with the end goal in mind, using several different examples (AND SOURCES!!) from multiple time periods to show the same trend over time. Goals. just Goals.

Katie Williams that's a fantastic idea! What a great way to get students engaged in primary sources. 

Would love to connect and collaborate. https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-suarez-m-ed-chw-16784a64/

I am now following Dr. Williams and Molly. This is my very first OER Project conference and my first year teaching World History in high school. I have only taught adults completing high school equivalency programs.  

It has taken me a while to figure out the best way to use primary sources and I think a thematic approach might be the way...this isn't random quotes or paragraph-long DBQ's that students need to spend 30-plus minutes on...