Networking in class: Idea 1

This was a lesson that turned out great. Youtube has a show that they call Worldview, where viewers submit question to world leaders. Then somebody chooses from those questions and Youtube broadcasts the individual answering it.

When Benjamin Netanyahu's turn came up, he received thousands of questions. I turned this into an opportunity for a lesson. Here's what I did with each of my classes:

1) Show the invitation to send in questions
2) Show samples of some questions already submitted
3) Begin a brainstorming session for questions to submit. This led to a great discussion about Israeli politics and current events, and was worth the whole project.
4) Have the students pick a spokesperson to ask the question, with others in the class in the background.
5) I submitted.

That was a great lesson! But now we can watch the answers and discuss them. This will work particularly well since a screenshot of seniors asking a question appears at 1:56, and an actual question is shown at 10:00 into the video, which the P.M. then answers!

This was a great experience for the kids, and got them to ask and answer all sorts of questions. Even if Mizrachi had not been chosen out of the thousands of questions, it would have been worth it, in my opinion.

Check it out! For some reason Youtube moved the video once, but if you click here on my personal blog, it will show you the embedded vide.