Mapping Helps

While mind-mapping for the DFM web class, Tyrone and I came up with a really cool idea that I am EXCITED about!  Mapping!  Follow me.......Maps. Place.  Pedagogy of place.  Place-Based Education.  Detroit.  Grace Lee Boggs.  The Boggs Educational Center.  Where am I going with this?  We are going to choose 3 different dates between 1900 and 2012.  We are going to find maps of Detroit during these times, and research what was happening socially, politically, and educationally.  We are going to scan the maps and add them, along with our research, to the BEC blog that we will be developing.  Tyrone is conducting interviews with folks in the community and we want to add those interviews/stories to add to the BEC blog to illustrate the transformation of Detroit through the years.  Ending with, where are we now and where are we going?  Grace told Julia that a school could only be in her name if she promised to re-imagining education completely.  That's what we are doing.