Watch the following video, Stolen Children. Think about racism and discrimination in Canada. Does this video make you think any differently about what it means to be Canadian?
Activity Type: Online Discussion, Reflective journals
In this activity, you will explore your own understanding of the meaning of crime and criminal justice. This is an opportunity to assess your own preconceptions of the field.
For your project, you will develop a community-based education initiative to address a contemporary challenge and/or opportunity in your respective region and/or community. You will prepare a presentation to a local Aboriginal governing body and/or regional school board to ask for support for your project.
Activity Type: Research activities, Creating a media piece
For this critical writing assignment, you are encouraged to reflect on your learning journey during this course. Identify any challenges you may have faced and discuss the strategies that helped you to address or overcome them. Take this opportunity to reflect on and share the outcomes of your learning journey.
Activity Type: Reflective journals
The purpose of this assignment is to explore your earliest memories as a child within the context of your lived experience in relation to Aboriginal people and/or Indigenous education.
In this activity, you will engage in critical reflective writing. By using critical reflective writing, you get to share your lived, personal experience and perspective. You express your unique point of view. Your writing also must demonstrate a deeper level of understanding of course content.
Although the activity of critical reflection can be uncomfortable because you are asked to explore and share thoughts and personal experiences, ultimately, the critical reflective writing you do over the duration of the course will help to facilitate your personal growth and transformation.
This activity asks you to respond to four prompts
Activity Type: Reflective journals
Think back on a project in which you had a significant involvement – it might have been as part of your job, or as an outside volunteer activity, or even during group work in prior degree study. Answer the attached questions.
Activity Type: Reflective journals
You are required to work in a small group to prepare and submit a business plan for a hypothetical new venture. Imagine you are part of a small team starting a new venture to design and sell a hypothetical new iPod accessory. You are to develop a complete business plan for the launch of this new venture, with the specific objective of attracting an early-stage equity investor. The business plan should be written from the perspective of a founder team trying to attract startup investment from a business angel. All team members should actively participate in the preparation of the business plan, and act professionally towards each other. You can also decide as a team to use external communication tools, such as Skype.
Activity Type: Essay assignments, Research activities
Create a personal reflection on 'leaders'. Read the attached questions and write a written report about your expectations of a 'leader'.
Activity Type: Reflective journals
To help to clarify your own cultural lens, this assignment will be for you to create a 4-page or so (double-spaced) social biography of yourself. Questions are provided as prompts to guide you.
Activity Type: Reflective journals, Essay assignments
A Philosophy of Education is something that typically represents a moment in time. We do not develop our philosophy in a void, it relates to our times, including contexts, trends, political and social events and values, many of which change or evolve as life continues.
Write a 750-word paper about your philosophy of education. Record you educational philosophy and post it on YouTube as Unlisted. Share your philosophy with your colleagues in the discussion forum.
Activity Type: Online Discussion, Essay assignments, Creating a media piece