Showing posts with label video; teaching ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video; teaching ideas. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Short video on immigrants and urban renewal

Here's a link to a short (11 minute) video on immigrants and urban renewal in the US that might be a good way to open a class discussion on effects of immigration: https://youtu.be/oY19epoOqLw. Perhaps have students make a list of the pro-immigration arguments made in the video as they watch it, and then how opponents would respond to each of those arguments.

Friday, December 13, 2019

Lin Manuel Miranda video on immigrants

Lin Manuel Miranda, the creator of the musical Hamilton, has a music video called Immigrants (We Get the Job Done) that might be fun to show in class to stimulate discussion or to assign students to watch outside of class. Here's the YouTube link to the 6-minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_35a7sn6ds. And here's an article in Migration Studies analyzing the video: https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnx071.