Students will also be receiving communications though Microsoft TEAMS “classes” that have been set up for GEO12, PEPS12, SS10M, LEAD10, & SS8M as per VSB & school admin directives; remember that MOODLE has been set up with specific course resources that will assist students in their respective courses.<\/p>\n
Upcoming course schedule date(s):<\/p>\n
April 20<\/strong> – In each student Digital Portfolio there should be a separate section (page\/tab\/etc)\u00a0 dedicated to the “Spring 2020 Observations”\u00a0 assignment described in an earlier post (see previous post from April 1, 2020)<\/p>\n Some focusing ideas students can use are listed below (these are not meant to limit your topics, but rather give you a common starting point):<\/p>\n PEPS12 – The economic welfare of individuals is an issue many governments are wrestling with in addition to the health concerns – examine the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI) in light of the current situation (especially with regard to any countries that may be implementing a form of UBI) and share your thoughts\/opinions, versus Guaranteed Minimum Wage.\u00a0 *You can also explore the concept of a “Living Wage”<\/p>\n GEO12 – Cities are often designed with social interaction in mind; describe some possible ways where cities might be designed differently as a result of the current situation.<\/p>\n SS10M – The current situation has sometimes been described as similar to war times – provide some examples that support this, and some examples that refute this.<\/p>\n LEAD10 – It can be argued that a crisis is an opportunity for leaders to come forward; share some specific examples where this has been shown (can be local community grassroots, governmental, organizational or individual)<\/p>\n SS8M – What new ways of doing things (methods\/ innovations\/inventions\/ideas) have emerged as a result of the current situation?\u00a0 Share your examples with as much detail as possible (who\/what\/why\/where\/when\/how).<\/p>\n Students are also free to use ideas from across all the courses listed or come up with their own based on running observations!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Students will also be receiving communications though Microsoft TEAMS “classes” that have been set up for GEO12, PEPS12, SS10M, LEAD10, & SS8M as per VSB & school admin directives; remember that MOODLE has been set up with specific course resources that will assist students in their respective courses.<\/p>\n Upcoming course schedule date(s):<\/p>\n April 20 – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,21,17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography-12","category-leadership-10","category-peps12","category-social-studies-10","category-social-studies-8m","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}