[Betsy Telle]

I like having the students see a different functional government and to compare it to ours. Having students look at the benefits and weakness of both systems. Students could then work together to create their own type of government.

[Betsy Telle]

I found this article absolutely fascinating. I had no idea how frequently and under so many different presidential administrations there have been peace talks and treaty attempts. I like the idea of a timeline that students can work together on. I think that it will go for students to see the long road to peace. We often teach peace as just the end result and not necessarily as the long road that comes before peace.

[Betsy Telle]

I also teach middle school, and to say that some of my students are obsessed with K-Pop would be an understatement. When we were in the school in-person I hosted a lunchtime K-Pop club. The students would come watch K-Pop videos. I can’t wait to share these articles with the club once we are back in the school building.

[Betsy Telle]

I chose this Woodblock Print. It is called One-Hundred Children. It is from 1743. 

I think that students would find it interesting to see what children were doing across the world, even before the US was a country. I think they will recognize the activities as some that they do with their own friends. They could even draw their own picture of what the scene would look like now in Los Angeles.

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This has been a great thread. What an interesting look at what we hold dear for a time and what we consider trash at another time. And then what do we do with our trash? I try to minimize the amount of paper used in my class, but my elective is a STEAM class and we do various paper crafts and coloring throughout the year. I feel bad because I know that most students are going to just throw away (or recycle) their drawings and work after they are done and graded. It would great to talk about what we can use our unwanted paperwork. Maybe they could use them as wrapping paper even.

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Wow, I love your lesson! I want to be in your class. I think this is a great way to have the students discover on their own the problems and solutions to these very grownup and global problems. In my class we do a lot of projects with craft supplies and since I mostly provide random recyclable materials there is sometimes shortages of certain supplies and limited quantities of the “best” supplies. It would be great to have a class discussion about what to do and use China’s growth as a historical context for the discussion. I love the questions you provide to lead the discussion.

[Betsy Telle]

Thanks for bringing up teaching decreasing populations as well. Decreasing populations have their own set of problems. I’ve read an increasing number of articles about cities trying to lure people to move to their cities. Cities, even some in the US, are offering cheap houses or thousands of dollars to anyone to move to their city. Cities are willing to pay a lot of money to get population growth to help solve some of these problems.

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I like the connection you made from the article to your Science class and how they can think of engineering solutions. I did not make this connection and now am excited thinking about the possibilities. This would be a great introduction to a design and invention unit. I think too many kids “invent” very useless products in the invention unit because we tell them to solve a problem so the invent something that does a very specific task from their own day. But I like the idea of showing these actually needs in the world and some of the solutions that have already been invented and have them use that as a framework. I have no doubt that students could come up with some fantastic solutions to the labor shortages.

[Betsy Telle]

I like the connection you make to caring for the world and caring for the aging population. I teach about caring for the world in some of my classes, but I like the idea of connecting the idea of caring for the world with caring for grandparents and greatgrandparents. My students are very diverse and all from different cultures from my own. I think it would make a very interesting to have a class discussion about how they think we should treat our own aging population and what they can do locally about it. We often talk about kids taking care of the environment to make it better for future generations so I like the idea of bridging the two and thinking about making a better future for both past and future generations.

[Betsy Telle]

Thank you for the ideas. I teach about Evolution and could definitely use Asian geography as a case study of the prevalence of different traits in certain environments in Asia. I could have students compare traits found in Asia versus other environments in the world.

[Betsy Telle]

I loved learning about the Cheonggyecheon River Restoration. I think that my students would really love learning about it as well. I think that it could be an inspiration for Los Angeles and what we can do with the River here. It would be nice to have the students study what they did in Korea and come up with ideas on what we could do and be inspired to be part of the clean up and restoration work being done in Los Angeles.

[Betsy Telle]

Thank you for sharing this idea. I hadn't thought about this connection to my Science class. I love the idea of students comparing ecosystems to their own neighborhoods, especially the symbiotic relationships in both.

[Betsy Telle]

I like the direction that you took with addressing the system with your students. The Household Registration System made me think of my students a lot. China’s system is very overt in their segregation and inequities and it was easy to be uncomfortable with it and to label it as bad and wrong. But I think that my students would be able to understand the inequity of the system. In the United States we have a lot of the same realities of this system, although it is much more ingrained rather than overt. My students as middle school students already know that their education and opportunities are limited for their entire lives just because they were born in the neighborhood they lived in.

[Betsy Telle]

I chose the 12 of Clubs playing card. My first reaction to the card was that it reminded me of Cesar Chavez. As other have pointed out in the other discussions a lot of these cards show Mao as an equal or at the same level as the people. I guess those are the aspects that remind me of Cesar Chavez. Mao and the Communist Party seemed to at least want to be perceived as a grassroots movement like Cesar Chavez’s movement.

[Betsy Telle]

I was surprised by the amount of influence European architecture has had on architecture in Asia. I have been to Tokyo a few times and did notice or was not aware of effect of Westernization on the buildings. I suppose when you are used to something you don’t notice yet, even in places it should not be. However, the pictures in the presentation and the reading make the influence very obvious.

 

I think that this would be a good discussion topic with students. They could discuss what they would use from other cultures. Other aspect is to compare Japan’s westernization versus China’s colonization and how they both led to architecture that was influenced by Europe.

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