Scenario Spotlight: Being a Person

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     Do you know what brings meaning to student creation? Having great scenarios for students to create with, Think about all the student projects you have seen. What is one of the common denominators for the bad ones? It is usually that they are just about a specific topic. There is little deeper learning there, and those are easy to copy from Wikipedia. What if we turned that activity on its head and made students be a person or concept. They would have a different understanding because they have to get into that personal headspace. It’s no longer a regurgitation of fact.
   By putting students in the mindset of a historical character, literary character, or in some type of concept, they get a deeper understanding of who that person was and their intentions. The best thing about it is there are some great and easy ways to do it. They include:

• Social Media Accounts
  • ​What better way to put a person in the mindset of a character than having them post to a social media account for the person. You could make it open-ended to their life, or it could be to a specific event. There are also great tools to fake a social media account like Padlet, Fakebook, and Twister.
• Video Interviews
  • You can get incredibly creative just by having students play the character and then interview each other. Give them creative freedom, but make sure they hit the points, and you will get amazing things.
• Write
  • You can write as a character in many different ways, and they could be for different scenarios. Students are writing from the first person and getting a better understanding. They can write blog posts, letter exchanges, speeches, and even a tiny book. Again, it’s up to your imagination.