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Social Studies & History Apps - 14 views

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  • Deven Black on 05 Dec 10
     
    From maps to documents, here are a few good social studies and history apps to check out on iTunes...
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Immigration Nation | iCivics - 5 views

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  • Lance Mosier on 02 Dec 10
     
    Interactive game to learn about Current Immigration Law from iCivics. 
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Colonial Sense: Peter Wentz Farmstead Candlelight Tour - 0 views

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  • Geoffrey Reiss on 24 Nov 10
     
    On December 4, 2010, The Peter Wentz Farmstead in Worcester, Pennsylvania will be holding their Candlelight Tour of the colonial home. The path to the home will be lit with soft glow candlelights. The Farmstead will be showcasing period music and seasonal decorations.
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Redistricting the Nation - 3 views

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shared by Lance Mosier on 19 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Lance Mosier on 19 Nov 10
     
    Redraw the map on redistricting. Legislators have long used redistricting as an opportunity to select their constituents, rather than empowering voters to elect their representatives. The redistricting following the 2010 Census is an opportunity to change how the process is conducted. Armed with knowledge and the right tools, the public can redraw the map on redistricting.
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Mapping the Measure of America - 5 views

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  • Lance Mosier on 18 Nov 10
     
    THe American Human Development (HD) Index is a composite measure of wellbeing and opportunity. It combines indicators in three fundamental areas-health, knowledge, standard of living-into a single number that falls on a scale form 0 to 10.
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A Beautiful Animated Rendition of The Gettysburg Address - 6 views

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  • Lance Mosier on 17 Nov 10
     
    Very Awesome Visual of Gettysburg Address
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School history gets the TV treatment | Education | The Guardian - 6 views

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  • 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.
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The Travel Film Archive | Stock Footage from around the World - 3 views

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  • Lance Mosier on 10 Nov 10
     
    Travel back in time and around the world with The Travel Film Archive. The Travel Film Archive is a collection of travelogues and educational and industrial films that show the world the way it was between 1900 and 1970. Among our holdings are archives of the renowned travel filmmakers Burton Holmes, Andre de la Varre, and James A. FitzPatrick, as well as footage shot by many other intinerant cameramen. Footage from The Travel Film Archive is available for licensing from Getty Images and the TFA Network of agents, either directly or through this site. At this time we do not provide footage for personal use.
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Native American Heritage Month - 8 views

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  • Lance Mosier on 02 Nov 10
     
    Resources for Native American Heritage Month
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7 Wonders Panoramas - The New 7 Wonders -Travel Great Wall, Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu - 3... - 8 views

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shared by Lance Mosier on 01 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Lance Mosier on 01 Nov 10
     
    See 360 view of someof the worlds greatest wonders.
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