Culturally Situated Design Tools

http://csdt.rpi.edu/

There's a lot of stuff on here and I haven't had time to make sense of it, but I don't want to lose this link. I especially appreciate that so much of it is connected to higher-level math because authentic, interesting culturally relevant pedagogy feels nearly impossible to find for upper-level high school math. This feels like it's using the "gimmick" of the cultural connection in a useful, non-cheesy way.

The thing I'm most interested in right this second is how to adapt the concepts and ideas presented to activities that (1) do not require use of technology--or that build from the technology to push beyond guess and check, (2) are more groupworthy.

Thoughts?

The World as You've Never Seen It Before

http://www.worldmapper.org

Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.

I should probably try this before a big test

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/11/25/15-minute-writing-exercise-closes-the-gender-gap-in-university-level-physics/

Can a writing exercise on values, given before a stereotype threat situation, change the outcomes?