Conor Watson CURRINS 545

Hello, and a good day to you! Please CLICK HERE to see my  media-based visualization about crossing the US-Mexico border, which is a sub-topic of my main topic which is immigration reform. Visualizing Understanding; Part 2               I chose to make my project on Thinglink because it offers multiple ways of showing various medias in a easily digestible way. For example, there is no format I’m limited to. If I think a video would be a good focal point of the lesson I can not only post that, but also surround it with links, descriptions and other visual images to help scaffold the video. I thought that the most important pieces of this interactive visual experience will be the backdrop since that is what is grabbing one’s attention in the first place.               For the backdrop I chose to use an artistic version of the American flag w...

     Inquiry Blog Post #3   Introduction:             The hypothetical group of students that I would be instructing with this material would be 11 th or 12 th grade students. The sources cited below will need to be used together to obtain a clear understanding. This is because some texts are more advanced than others, so I would be occasionally referencing the simpler texts to help explain the more complicated ones (book-based). For example, the YouTube video with John Oliver may help further explain complex ideas in the textbooks I’ll be using in tandem. Another example would be with the DeSipio book which would pair nicely with the President Trump text as well as the John Oliver text. The books I choose are fairly difficult, but I plan to go over the material with note guides, presentations and maybe a project if there’s time left in the lesson. The musical texts I chose will also help expla...

The inquiry topic I'd like to choose is immigration law. It has always fascinates me how our U.S. policies on immigration tend to ebbs and flow depending on what political party is in charge and what the media is deciding to cover on any particular day. As it may seem on the surface, immigration law is usually what is the variable factor, rather than the actual number or types of people crossing and attempting to cross the U.S. borders illegally. I'm interested in why these laws change, who is legislating them and what is hoped to be gained by controlling the influx of people immigrating to the U.S. Whether these reasons are nefarious or altruistic, it's important to dig down to the details and determine if the main controller of immigration law is indeed found in the number and type of people crossing the border, or the is attention brought to this subject simply because immigration law surrounding becomes more strict and then lenient as a pattern historically in the ...

Hello, my name is Conor and I'm very much looking forward to this class. The content and accompanying materials look interesting and I'm excited to begin. I'm going to be certified to teach 6th through 12th grade social studies with a concentration in psychology, history and political science. In a year or so I plan to return to UWM to complete my MS degree in curriculum and instruction after I have some experience. My goals are to have fun and learn something along the way!