In an earlier post, I mentioned the sweet, new Digital Vaults site from the National Archive people. The site really blew me away with its cool interface, teaching materials and use of primary sources. I’m thinking, this is what digital archives should look like! Can’t get any better than this.
Or can it?
Thumbing through the latest [...]
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Went to an interesting workshop by a professor from Furman University on using film to teach about Brown v. Board of Education. I was hoping for some good things and did have some good conversation but overall, didn’t get anything new here. Libscomb didn’t seem like someone who has a strong grasp of film and [...]
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Three sessions this afternoon:
Four teachers from a suburban school presented a session titled “Tips for Inexperienced Social Studies Teachers.” With so many teachers in ESSDACK districts teaching SS for the first time, I thought this would be helpful. Well, it was and it wasn’t. The group spent very little time actually talking about tips [...]
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Two sessions this morning Some good, some average, and one not so good.
The first session was “Authenticating Historical Novels” by Dr. Eric Groce from Appalachian State University. He talked about several ways to use historical novel to teach social studies, specifically with elementary and MS kids. Most of his stuff would work with HS too. [...]
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Spent the day with Chris Speery from the Look Smart organization. The group is based at Ithaca College and works mostly with teachers in northern New York. They have created some very neat stuff about how we can teach kids to analyze, evaluate, and produce media in all of its forms.
Chris provided rationale for teaching [...]
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