Our Discord channel - https://discord.gg/mDXz6H8.Conceptualization notes when I was designing America 3.0America 3.0 is a course in which students study the history of the United States from 1970 to the present. Game-based model of instruction and work. Nearly all work is self-directed, except in "Section J" - which is to say, the entire class working together as if it were one guild (the difference between 5 and 25 man content). Students must always choose what they're learning and how they're learning it. Students level as they quest to become "level 100." When students "do" they connect by means of tags to "knowing" "Scratch work" goes in the Schoology page "Finished work" goes to the Tumblr page Students are required to attain a minimum of 100 achievement points in each branch of the knowing and the doing trunk Every 100 achievement points = 1 level? So, the minimum work grants 12 levels BUT THEY ONLY EARN "GRADABLE" POINTS ON "DO" ACHIEVEMENTS / KNOWING EARNS NO POINTS, but are required to earn a particular grade. You can't achieve level 100 without getting a boss win on one branch of knowing and 2 branches of doing You can't "know" without a "do." Without a "do," there's no way for anyone to know what you "know." Quest lines form up into 2 main trunks: Knowing Doing The Knowing trunk asks students to demonstrate that they know X about Y. The Doing trunk asks students to demonstrate that they can acquire knowledge X in a particular way or transmit or pass on their X knowledge of Y in a particular way Z. KNOWING A3.0 is about the history of the United States after 1970, but America 2.0 remains a strong part of the course and the thinking about the time period. You must reach level 10 in every branch of knowing. You must reach level 20 in four of six branches. You must reach level 50 in two of six branches. You must reach level 100 in one of six branches. Levels 1-10 deal with America 2.0: background, status, circumstances, conditions, figures, realities. The Knowing trunk further subdivides into the following branches: Social Change and ReactionLevel 1: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of Black America in America 2.0 and DO. Level 2: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of women in America in America 2.0 and DO. Level 3: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the conditions facing Native Americans in America 2.0 and DO. Level 4: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of Mexican Americans (or another immigrant group) in America 2.0 and DO. Level 5: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the conditions facing gay Americans in America 2.0 and DO. Level 6: Derive 3 common threads between the experiences of these groups. Level 7: Choose 3 from previous levels (Black America, Women, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, gay Americans). What were the triggering event or events that stimulated a new consciousness for these groups in America 2.0? Why these events and DO. Level 8: What, if anything, is common between these triggering events? Level 9: Gather 15 pieces of data that inform you about the state of "mainstream" America in America 2.0. What does "mainstream" mean in this case? Derive what is common between your data points and DO. Level 10 BOSS: What qualities of the mainstream were the disenfranchised entranced by or interested in attaining for themselves? How were the disenfranchised resisting the power of the mainstream? What about the mainstream were they reacting against? DO Level 11: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of American military servicemen between 1970 and 1980. DO. Level 12: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of American family life, marriage and childhood between 1970 and 1980. DO. Level 13: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of American religious and spiritual life between 1970 and 1980. DO. Level 14: Derive 5 common threads between your data points. Level 15: Gather 4 pieces of data that inform you about the change in the state of Black America between 1970 and 1980. DO. Level 16: Gather 4 pieces of data that inform you about the change in the state of women in American between 1970 and 1980. DO. Level 17: Gather 4 pieces of data that inform you about the change in the state of Native Americans between 1970 and 1980. DO. Level 18: Gather 4 pieces of data that inform you about the change in relations between native-born Americans and immigrant Americans between 1970 and 1980 and DO. Level 19: Gather 4 pieces of data that inform you about the change in conditions for gay Americans between 1970 and 1980. DO. Level 20 BOSS: In the transition from America 2.0 to America 3.0 many norms were destabilized. What norms were being destabilized between 1970 and 1980? What was in transition? What was stable? Level 90 Question: Gay Marriage SCR BOSS WIN: Choose one of the following socially constructed concepts (parenting, family, gender, sexual orientation, adolescence, work) and trace all of the ways in what that concept has changed since America 2.0 began to give way to America 3.0. Trace the development of the change in your chosen concept through each of its major crisis points, how the American people have stimulated and resisted the change and speculate based on reason and sound evidence how you believe your chosen concept might continue to develop over the next ten years. CultureLevel 1: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of American popular music in America 2.0 and DO. Level 2: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of American film in America 2.0 and DO. Level 3: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of American television in America 2.0 and DO. Level 4: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of American fiction (novels, poetry) in America 2.0 and DO. Level 5: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of American visual arts (painting, photography) in American 2.0 and DO. Level 6: Derive 3 common concerns/foci/approaches between these different cultural media. Level 7: Find and defend your choice of 2 cultural artifacts that were culturally transformative in each of the 5 modes and DO. Level 8: What, if anything, is common between these transformative cultural artifacts? Level 9: What was the reaction of mainstream culture to these transformative moments? Level 10 BOSS: Contrast the different concerns/foci/approaches/obsessions/anxieties expressed by transformative and mainstream culture. What is common between them? What's different? What is the transformative trying to transform? What is the mainstream trying to preserve? DO Level 11: Gather the 4 most influential musicians in America between 1970 and 1980. DO: What made them so? Were they Americans? Level 12: Gather the 4 most influential films released in America between 1970 and 1980. DO: What made them so? Level 13: Gather the 4 most influential television programs in America between 1970 and 1980. DO: What made them so? Level 14: Gather the 4 most influential pieces of American fiction between 1970 and 1980. DO: What made them so? Level 15: Gather the 4 most influential pieces of American non-fiction (documentary film, monographs) between 1970 and 1980. DO: What made them so? Level 16: Gather the 4 most influential pieces of American visual arts (painting, sculpture, video arts, photography) between 1970 and 1980. DO: What made them so? Level 17: Derive 5 common concerns/anxieties/foci between these different cultural media. Level 18: Whose stories are being told in the media you identified at level 17? DO. Level 19: Gather 8 examples of "fringe" cultural practices in America between 1970 and 1980. Level 20 BOSS - By 1980, significant cultural transformation was well underway, not just on the fringes but also in the mainstream. What were fringe movements protesting against in the cultural sphere? What were they angry about? What made their vision of the United States fringe, and how would they have transformed society had they won? Level 30 - public intellectuals Level 90 Question: Network Cultures (microcultures) Culture BOSS WIN: In the transition from America 1.0 to America 2.0, major disruptions in social relations and "social truth" led to the widespread adoption and embrace of fringe cultural practices. In many cases, these fringe practices died out (Fourierism), but in other cases, they survived into our own age (Christian Science). Trace the phenomenon of cultural resistance to the mainstream and/or the emergence of cultural anxiety in the transition from America 2.0 to America 3.0, and speculate based on reason and sound evidence about the likely survivability of at least three cultural expressions in 2100. Politics in the Age of ReaganLevel 1: Who were the presidents of the United States during the Democratic hegemony? Level 2: Gather 8 pieces of data that illustrate the policies advocated by only the Republican Party in America 2.0 (before 1964) and DO. Level 3: Gather 8 pieces of data that illustrate the policies advocated by only the Democratic Party in America 2.0 (before 1964) and DO. Level 4: Gather 8 pieces of data that illustrate policies advocated by both the Republican and Democratic parties in America 2.0 (before 1964) and DO. Level 5: During the period of Democratic hegemony (1933-1969), which states consistently voted for the Republican candidate? Which for the Democratic? Did these states consistently elect Senators and Governors who matched their preferences for President? DO. Level 6: What patterns do you discern in the data you gathered for level 5? Level 7: Gather 3 examples of Republican policies implemented under Democratic administrations and vice versa and DO. Level 8: Gather 6 examples of political forces advocating change that were brought to bear against the Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations and DO. Level 9: How successful were the political forces you identified in achieving their goals in a timely manner? Level 10 BOSS: Gather 6 planks of the Democratic and Republican campaigns for president in 1964. What makes Barry
