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smenegh Meneghini

Teaching History with Technology - 1 views

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  • smenegh Meneghini on 01 Feb 12
     
    This is a "resource created to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses. Find resources for history and social studies lesson plans, activities, projects, games, and quizzes that use technology. Explore inquiry-based lessons, activities, and projects. Learn about web technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, social networks, Google Docs, ebooks, online maps, virtual field trips, screencasts, online posters, and more. Explore innnovative ways of integrating these tools into the curriculum, watch instructional video tutorials, and learn how others are using technology in the classroom!"
Blair Peterson

Literary History, Seen Through Big Data's Lens - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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English Literature Data

shared by Blair Peterson on 27 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • His mathematical models are tailored to identify word patterns and thematic elements in written text. The number and strength of links among novels determine influence, much the way Google ranks Web sites.
  • Data-centric specialties are growing fast, giving rise to a new vocabulary. In political science, this quantitative analysis is called political methodology. In history, there is cliometrics, which applies econometrics to history. In literature, stylometry is the study of an author’s writing style, and these days it leans heavily on computing and statistical analysis. Culturomics is the umbrella term used to describe rigorous quantitative inquiries in the social sciences and humanities.
  • “What is critical and distinctive to human evolution is ideas, and how they evolve,” says Jean-Baptiste Michel, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard.
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  • By contrast, “1973” declined to half its peak by 1983, only 10 years later. “We are forgetting our past faster with each passing year,” the authors wrote.
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      Blair Peterson on 27 Jan 13
       
      New terms Political methodology, cliometrics, stylometry, culturonmics
Blair Peterson

Literary History, Seen Through Big Data's Lens - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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English Literature Data

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  • Data-centric specialties are growing fast, giving rise to a new vocabulary. In political science, this quantitative analysis is called political methodology. In history, there is cliometrics, which applies econometrics to history. In literature, stylometry is the study of an author’s writing style, and these days it leans heavily on computing and statistical analysis. Culturomics is the umbrella term used to describe rigorous quantitative inquiries in the social sciences and humanities.
  • Such biological metaphors seem apt, because much of the research is a quantitative examination of words. Just as genes are the fundamental building blocks of biology, words are the raw material of ideas.
  • Blair Peterson on 27 Jan 13
     
    Story of a project to use data analysis in English literature.
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Erin - 1 views

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StudentCenteredLearning history CurriculumFramework assessment

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  • Blair Peterson on 25 May 11
     
    What do we think about this student history project?
Blair Peterson

Tim Brown urges designers to think big | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 30 Nov 12
     
    Design thinking. Great ideas on history of and examples of projects.
smenegh Meneghini

Podcasts: Power in the hands oh History students - 1 views

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  • smenegh Meneghini on 27 Jan 12
     
    "How to" links for podcasting, classroom example links and ideas.
Blair Peterson

Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 08 Dec 10
     
    Access to many famous works of art organized by time period, artist, style and themes.
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Everything Is a Remix - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 09 Feb 11
     
    This is a great series on remix. It puts things in perspective by looking at history.
Blair Peterson

IBM Centennial Film: They Were There - People who changed the way the world works - 0 views

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IBM Innovation sharedvision future technology

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  • Blair Peterson on 22 Jan 11
     
    30 minute video on the history of IBM. Good examples of how an organization changes to better meet the customer needs.
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YouTube - World's Most Typical Person - 1 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 09 Mar 11
     
    An excellent video series from National Geographic on the World's Most Typical Person. Presented very well. Excellent for geography, history, social studies, international relations.
Blair Peterson

Free Technology for Teachers: Videographics - Short Modern History Videos - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 25 May 11
     
    Cool videographics. Ideas for students and teacher. 
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WeatherSpark | Interactive Weather Charts - 0 views

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shared by Shabbi Luthra on 28 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Shabbi Luthra on 28 Apr 11
     
    a site with interactive weather graphs allowing you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station
Blair Peterson

YouTube - ‪What if? from Karl Fisch‬‏ - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 12 Jul 11
     
    Video from Karl Fisch on change throughout history. From ball point pens, and calculators to computers people have predicted doom and gloom with new technologies. What if we listened? 
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Coding the Curriculum: How High Schools Are Reprogramming Their Classes - 0 views

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  • Understanding how to use Python, or write code to solve problems, is just a way of having an additional tool to be creative with."
  • "The old teaching method — you know, where a teacher says something and you write it down and then take a test — that's about as passive as it gets," he says. "This idea pushes kids to be more actively involved since, by and large, it's something we're both learning together. That leads to a lot of innovative teaching — and a lot of innovative learning, for that matter."
  • "I'm certainly not a coder," says Lisa Brown, an English teacher and head of the English department at Beaver. "But, like anything, the more I've played around with it the more I've realized there's a lot that's really accessible and understandable."
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  • he exact curriculum for the year — or just how staff will b
  • implementing coding into each discipline — is still open-ended.
  • Brown says she's considering a poetry unit using code language. Kader Adjout, head of the Global History and Social Sciences department, is planning to have his students design — through code — interactive graphs to correlate with their research papers. Tina Farrell, who heads the Performing Arts department, is interested in experimenting with live-coding performances, where students would use software to compose and perform music with scripts they write.
  • It's difficult to trace back to when the American education curriculum began. Why, for example, do students at public schools take biology before chemistry? Chemistry before physics? And algebra before geometry?
    • Blair Peterson
      Blair Peterson on 03 Oct 13
       
      Not all schools are doing this now. Certainly a traditional approach.
  • Hutton doesn't believe the education field is one to be viewed as "risk-averse" — the play-it-safe or uphold-the-status-quo methods just aren't cutting it anymore.
  • We don't need to engineer a workshop so every kid that graduates here becomes a professional programmer," he says. "We just want them to think about new ways to solve issues, and grasp that entrepreneurial mindset early on. It's ... it's just this day and age."
Blair Peterson

BBC - Dimensions - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 04 Oct 10
     
    Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are.
Blair Peterson

Education Week Teacher: Teaching the iGeneration: It's About Verbs, Not Tools - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 23 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Instead of exploring how new digital opportunities can support student-centered inquiry or otherwise enhance existing practices, today’s schools are preparing their teachers to use office automation and productivity tools like Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
  • begins by introducing teachers to ways in which digital tools can be used to encourage higher-order thinking and innovative instruction across the curriculum.
  • Let me suggest that it is time to be done with this unnecessary conflict about 21st-century skills. Let us agree that we need all those forenamed skills, plus lots others, in addition to a deep understanding of history, literature, the arts, geography, civics, the sciences, and foreign languages.
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  • Instead of recognizing that tomorrow’s professions will require workers who are intellectually adept—able to identify bias, manage huge volumes of information, persuade, create, and adapt—teachers and district technology leaders wrongly believe that tomorrow’s professions will require workers who know how to blog, use wikis, or create podcasts.
    • Blair Peterson
      Blair Peterson on 23 Apr 11
       
      This is a key point and one that makes us stop and think about the language we use and our actions.
  • Our teaching should instead focus on the verbs (i.e. skills) students need to master, making it clear to the students (and to the teachers) that there are many tools learners can use to practice and apply them.
  • Blair Peterson on 23 Apr 11
     
    Check out this post by Bill Ferriter. Nice job explaining that "It's about the behaviors that the tools enable." Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
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