3.1.5

**3.1.5: Connect learning to community issues.**
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[|MLK WebQuest] This WebQuest is based around Martin Luther King Jr. and allows for learning, while connecting Americans to the culture and history that surrounds them. It brings to light the issues that were an issue in the community then and may still be in the present.

[|Twitter] Twitter is a great resource when used properly. Too much of it, like anything, and it's bad for you. But with the right slow, steady community outreach via Twitter, and by following the right Twitter feeds, teachers and students will be able to keep up with issues around the world.

Community through Gardening: media type="custom" key="6092993" A project on this scale would be best for natural learners, as they build with a community, of course.

What it means.
There are a variety of different tools that can be used to connect what is learned to a community and its issues, whether that community be local, regional, or even global. This can be accomplished through a variety of technologies. As Clay Shirky mentions in the first video, the technology is still advancing and improving, but even now the power to communicate and collaborate is extremely impressive. The second video is an example of a community building. Granted, it's not entirely what this standard means, but I see it as simultaneously building communities and learning. Getting to know some of the community issues first hand.