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Annabel Astbury

School history gets the TV treatment | Education | The Guardian - 6 views

  • His key episodes are based not around a grand organising narrative but a series of vignettes that make compelling stories.
  • If history is popular on TV, it can be made popular at school.
  • Teachers developed new methods, shifting away from chronology and narrative to topics and themes, where the emphasis was placed on "skills" of analysis over the regurgitation of facts.
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  • . History in schools, they argue
  • without providing any connecting narrative thread that explains their relationship with each other. The solution is a return to narrative history, to a big story that will organise and make sense of historical experience.
  • Nonetheless, it remains an announcement that tells us more about the contradictions of government thinking and its reductive view of the humanities and social sciences than it does about the state of history teaching in our schools.
  • I agree with Schama that the real public value of history-teaching in schools (as in universities) lies in its capacity to re-animate our civil society and produce an engaged and capable citizenry. I disagree that good story-telling will get you there
  • History provides us with a set of analytical skills that are indispensable for citizens who want to understand our present conditions
  • We want students who aren't just entertained, but who can think critically and effectively about the world they live in.
  • For the creative and innovative teacher it may have been something of a constraint, but most now agree it led to a ‘golden age’ of history teaching in primary schools in the 1990s and ensured every child covered a coherent history syllabus from 11-14 without repeating topics. It also spawned a generation of excellent and accessible teaching materials and encouraged heritage organisations to provide for a standard history curriculum
  • Regardless this return to grand narrative and national myth goes against the very progress we as academic historians have made. History is more to do with how we think and evaluate things, the tools we use to come to conclusions than about dates and conveniently accessible stories self legitimatising the status quo.
Richard Ford

Historypin | Home - 6 views

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    History Pin is a site that lets teachers and students view and share their personal history in a totally new way. It uses Google Maps and Street View technology and hopes to become the largest user-generated archive of the worlds historical images and stories. History Pin asks the public to dig out, upload and pin their own old photos, as well as the stories behind them, onto the History Pin map. Uniquely, History Pin lets you layer old images onto modern Street View scenes, giving a series of peeks into the past. This is a great tool for writing compare and contrast literature and, of course, for use with a History class as well.
Christian Guyard

The map as history : a multimedia atlas of world history with animated historical maps - 15 views

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    The map as history For students: a learning tool to increase comprehension and retention For teachers: a ready-made teaching tool to add visual impact in the classroom For history buffs: new technology to add new perspectives Our on-line maps use animation, color and narration to bring history to life.
Dean Mantz

http://contextu.com/#/ - 3 views

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    Here is a description of Contextu via Richard Byrne's Free Technology For Teachers posting: Ken Halla, the blogger behind the US History Teachers Blog, has been working on an excellent new site for students of US History. The new site is called ContextU and its purpose is to help students see the greater context for significant events in history. The first iteration of ContextU is focused on the American Civil War. On ContextU students select from a table of contents an event, piece of legislation, or theme to see it in the context of other events, pieces of legislation, and themes leading to the start of the Civil War. Through timelines, Google Maps, diagrams, flow charts, timelines, and text ContextU provides context for each chosen event, piece of legislation, or theme. Students can jump from event to event or from theme to theme by following the hyperlinks within each diagram.
Simon Miles

History Animated - 1 views

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    "History Animated is a fantastic resource for teachers of US History. The animations will make great supplements to classroom instruction. The animations are a significant improvement over drawing or pointing to places on a map. The site currently features animations on the Pacific War, the Civil War, the Revolutionary War and the Battle of Britain.
Lance Mosier

US History, American History - 8 views

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    Pictorial Study Guides for American History
Mitch Weisburgh

ICTmagic - History - 7 views

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    wiki of intereactive history and SS sites
Ian Gabrielson

Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Useful YouTube Channels for History Teachers - 0 views

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    World History & Other Stuff
Matt Esterman

Reflections on the History Wars: The political battle for Australia's future - On Line ... - 1 views

  • History is always our most useful tool and guide. Knowing our past helps us to divine our future; to see the long strands which denote our character and which have been common in each epoch of our development; and how they may be adapted in our transformation as an integral part of this region, while re-energising our national life.
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    Reflections on the History Wars: The political battle for Australia's future
David Hilton

The History Faculty - Home - 1 views

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    The History Faculty offers FREE video & audio lectures by leading UK historians. Please register for access to all our materials. There's no catch. We will not use your details for any commercial purpose.
Matt Henderson

US Geography Game - 0 views

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    Good activator for US History class
Lance Mosier

http://www.history.com/shows/america-the-story-of-us/videos/#faces-of-america - 3 views

shared by Lance Mosier on 26 Apr 10 - Cached
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    Video shorts from the History Channel: America: The Story Of Us
anonymous

History Wars - 0 views

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    Photographs of modern conflicts. Use for research or discussions for IB history
John Brady

Welcome - The Flow of History - 0 views

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    fairly basic approach to teaching history - using flowcharts+ descriptive text to give broad backgrounds/summaries/outlines to histor
Matt Esterman

History Teachers' Association of NSW Links Page - 10 views

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    Some useful links from the History Teachers' Association of New South Wales.
David Hilton

My History Network - a network of history students from around the world - 7 views

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    This is a network designed for high school students to share ideas and help each other with their history studies. Please let us know that you're a teacher when you join and we'll grant you teacher privileges. You can then admit and monitor your students in the network. Any feedback you could provide on ways to improve it would also be great. Hope we see you there!
Mitch Weisburgh

History Today: The educational archive of articles, news and study aids for teachers, s... - 8 views

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    hundreds of articles on just about everything historical
Geoffrey Reiss

The Journal of Jasper Danckaerts - 0 views

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    On the eighth of June, 1679, we left home2 at four o'clock in the morning, taking leave of those with whom God had joined us fast in spirit, they committing us, and we them, with tenderness of heart, unto the gracious protection of the Highest. Although for a time separated in body, we remained most closely united in soul, which is, always and everywhere, but one and the same. We went on foot to Oost[erend], expecting there to take the canal boat, which we did, at six or half past six o'clock, after waiting an hour. We took leave finally of those of our beloved and very worthy friends who had accompanied us, and thus far made it a pleasant journey for us. Our hearts had been strengthened in discoursing, on the road, of God and his will concerning us, and of the disposition and readiness of our hearts, as we then felt, to bear it whatever it might be, although we foresaw that it would be mortifying enough for us…
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    Update to 1600s travel journal
Dean Mantz

Zoomin.cct.edc.org - 3 views

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    "Zoom In is a free web-based platform that helps students build literacy and historical thinking skills through "deep dives" into primary and secondary sources. Choose from 18 content-rich US history units designed to supplement your regular instruction and help students practice skills required by the new, higher standards: reading documents closely and critically, identifying point of view and purpose, engaging in text-based discussions, and writing explanatory and argumentative essays grounded in evidence."
Chuck Holland

Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today and Ellis Island | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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    Nice interactive timeline.  Great for current events and US history.
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