Ari Hawthorne

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

@EduKaylaG I found it uncomfortable to teach this to 4th graders. Its definitely heartbreaking to delve into something so difficult right after exploring Keota or pretending to be a miner. No nine year old wants to imagine being a prisoner because of their ethnicity.

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

@Hoodtweets3 I know this isn't one of our stations, but El Movimiento is a beautifully done exhibit. Very powerful.

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

#edu4011 When students read history/historical texts, they need to develop specific literacy skills revolving around critical reading and placing texts in context. Students need these tools to be successful historians.

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

@Hoodtweets3 I am hopeful that the second line will be true one day.

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

@PaulineJenna I'm amazed by the amount of hatred I've seen for Muslims post-9/11, and how little backlash I've seen about the (ongoing!) caging of children on the border. Fear of people who are 'different' is still unbearably present in the US today, even if they also have love for America.

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

@EmilyBrogan13 Yes! I was amazed by that too. Most of the Southeastern part of Colorado effected by the Dust Bowl recovered pretty well, but Baca County and the adjoining counties seem to still be recovering.

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

@PaulineJenna I had heard of these, but didn't know the name for them, or what they looked like. I was amazed that they were put out by a huge company like Ford.

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

#hccfieldstudent The Hart Research Library at HCC has archives, photography, and artifacts. The librarians and staff are happy to give us access to their collection and assist us with research to improve our lessons for any of our four modules. https://t.co/T6iDMYQ7v7

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

#hccfieldstudent Keota - On the Eastern Colorado praries, Keota evolved from a single homestead in 1888 to a thriving town of 140 in 1919. It boasted a high veteran population, a Ford, Chevrolet, and Buick dealership, and General Store. By 1975, the population dipped to just 5.

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

#hccfieldstudent Dust Bowl - In the 1930s, towns in Southeast Colorado offered free land to anyone for 5 years of farming and improving the land. Families arrived expecting lush soil and plentiful groundwater, but arrived to drought and over-plowed the land, worsening conditions.

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

#hccfieldstudent Amache - From May of 1942 to October 1945, 7318 ethnic Japanese people - 2/3 of them American citizens - were interred at the Granada Relocation Center. Relocated from the West Coast for "security" purposes, residents faced prison-like conditions.

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

#hccfieldstudent Silverton - Miners dealt with extreme heat and cold, darkness, damp conditions, tight spaces, cave-ins, explosions, waste ore, and mountain winds, and they worked 10 hour shifts, 7 days a week, whenever weather allowed - all to mine silver.

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

#edu4011 How do we impress upon students why history is vital until they experience one of those life altering events - a huge loss, the Challenger explosion, 9/11, the Berlin Wall, etc. How do we teach the impact when they have never known what came before?

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

#edu4011 Given the anniversary of 9/11 this week, the range of daily experiences that may be historically notable one day is clear. Students learning how to unpack events from yesterday or from 1000 years ago, the result is the same - the excavation of human history.

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

#edu6200 This week has given me a lot to think about in terms of student needs in differentiated classrooms and the potential difficulty associated with meeting those needs given the struggles we had with the PBA assignment. I will need to keep this in mind, especially this year.

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

#edu6200 The Gary Plan has impacted schools most - not necessarily for the best. Grouping students by age (not aptitude/interest/performance) is now a given for the majority of schools. A Taylorist approach to education is detrimental for student originality and personal growth.

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

#edu6200 Schools, like factory jobs, promote “averagarianism, the supposition that individuals can be evaluated, sorted, and managed by comparing them to the average.” Students need a platform to express individual strengths and passions, and the current system robs them of that.

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

#edu6200 Students falling on both sides average in a various categories tend to be judged by their poorest scores. We aren’t actively serving our students’ individual needs but their perceived ability level - assessing their averages, rather than their outlier scores, or 'edges'.

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

#edu6200 I worked with F/A-18 fighter pilots, and corroborate the claim that there is no 'average'. Even their vests and O2 masks are custom fit to ensure their greatest mobility, ability, and safety. Students deserve the same attentiveness for them perform at their best.

[Ari Hawthorne @HawthorneAriana]

#edu6200 Standardized tests provide very useful information for parents, educators, and government. Using scores to rate teachers and refusing (ELL and/or IEP) accommodations are problematic current practices. Either one may result in inaccurate determinations of mastery level.