TTT#451 Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Letter to My Son" Together
Channel: Paul Allison
Date: 2015-07-15

Titan Pad for TTT#451 with links and chat from this episode.
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+Christopher Rogers, +Dewayne Dickens +Kevin Hodgson Jeremy Dean,+Karen Fasimpaur and I +Paul Allison  invite you to add your comments to Ta-Nehisi Coates' excerpt from his new book, Between the World and Me, "Letter to My Son."

https://via.hypothes.is/http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/tanehisi-coates-between-the-world-and-me/397619/

We invite you to sign up or log in at https://hypothes.is and to add your thoughts as you are reading.

Then -- EVEN IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE ARTICLE YET -- on Wednesday at 9PM ET/6PM PT, please join us for a conversation about using such texts as this with our students ... and anti-racism curriculum in our schools... given the one-year mark after Eric Garner, and soon Mike Brown were killed. 

Please invite your friends and colleagues to annotate the Atlantic article with us. And plan to join us this Wednesday,  July 15 at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt 9PM ET/6PM PT.

Teachers Teaching Teachers http://edtechtalk.com/ttt is an informal place for conversations about teaching and learning. We are a group of K12 and college teachers who use the values and principles of connected learning in our classrooms. Many of us collaborate on http://youthvoices.net (See: http://youthvoices.net/blacklivesmatter)

As you can see from this YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY9e9zEmLwtPnN74JE8Z4RH_XtkbO67mG and this post on the National Writing Project's Digital Is site, http://digitalis.nwp.org/collection/ferguson ... we are also committed to bringing issues of race and justice into our classrooms. 

We are gathering again this Wednesday evening at 9PM Eastern/6PM Pacific on a Hangout On Air to talk about where race and justice issues are coming up now -- as a way to commemorate this year. Join us at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt