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media type="custom" key="28679850" == = Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement =
 * Topics **
 * Civic Learning by Students **
 * **Civics Test Questions**
 * Community Engagement and Service Learning **
 * **Mock Trials as a Teaching Strategy**
 * Youth Activism in U. S. History **
 * **Historical Examples and Teaching Strategies**
 * Sugata Mitra and SOLEs (Self-Organized Learning Environments) **

**Civic Learning by Students**
Definition: Civic learning means acquisition of the **knowledge**, the **intellectual skills** and the **applied competencies** that citizens need for informed and effective participation in civic and democratic life; it also means acquiring an understanding of the social values that underlie democratic structures and practices


 * [[image:Screen Shot 2016-11-17 at 4.24.09 PM.png width="64" height="44" link="https://www.aacu.org/crucible"]][|A Crucible Moment: College Learning & Democracy's Future](2012)**

[|Diversity, Group Identity and Citizenship Education in a Global Age], James A. Banks, Educational Researcher, 37(3), 129-137. Banks proposed the following typology of types of citizenship:
 * Legal Citizenship
 * Minimal Citizenship
 * Active Citizenship
 * Transformative Citizenship

[|Arizona 1st to Pass Law Requiring High School Civics Test], Arizona Republic (January 16, 2015)

"Boring but Important: A Self-Transcendent Purpose for Learning Fosters Academic Self-Regulation." David S. Yeager. //Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,// 2014 October.
 * Researchers found that students who value education as a means to improve society (and not just themselves) displayed more persistent in completing tedious academic tasks at school.

[|Civic Education Lesson Plans]

[|Lesson Plans--Civic Engagement and Action]

[|Using Dystopian Fiction to Explore Citizenship] from MiddleWeb (August 2015).

**Civics Test Questions**
[|Civics Test Questions] from Fasttrack Civics

[|Who Won the Civil War? Tough Question], NPR Photojournalist, November 2014. This includes on campus interviews at Texas Tech University about civic knowledge.

[|Flunking Civics: Why America's Kids Know So Little,]American Bar Association Journal, 2011 This includes on the street interviews about civic knowledge.



**Community Engagement and Service Learning**
[|A Brief History of Service Learning]

12 Reasons Community Service Should Be Required in Schools

[|National News Engagement Day]

[|50 Ways to Engage with Current Events] from the //New York Times// Learning Network, October 7, 2014

[|Ideas for Service Learning Projects]from the National Park Service

[|The Case for Hackathons] from the Blog //Tchers' Voice// (July 15, 2015). Includes the idea of civically-minded hackathons.

Seider, S. C., Gillmor, S., & Rabinowicz, S. (2012). [|The impact of community service learning upon the expected political voice of participating college students]. //Journal of Adolescent Research, 27//(1): 44-77.

[|Are You An Innovative Educator? Here is How to Find Out]



[[image:Screen Shot 2016-10-28 at 12.13.15 PM.png width="64" height="58"]]Mock Trials

 * In Any Case: Conducting a Mock Trial**, New York Times Learning Network


 * Preparing for a Mock Trial**, New York Times Learning Network


 * Planning for a Mock Trial,** from YMCA of Greater Seattle


 * Free Mock Trials from Street Law, Inc**

**[|Sugata Mitra] and SOLEs (Self-Organized Learning Environments)**


What Happens When Fifth Graders Run the Classroom: A SOLE in Action

[|School in the Cloud] and TED Talks

[|How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses] from Wired (October 15, 2013)