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HistoryGrl14 .

TED: Ideas worth spreading - 8 views

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  • HistoryGrl14 . on 07 Feb 10
     
    Great to find quick videos on provacative, intruiging topics as discussion starters, writing prompts, or with online courses...
David Hilton

Dan Carlin - Common Sense Archive - 3 views

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  • David Hilton on 17 Mar 10
     
    A fascinating discussion on the current Texas history textbook controversy. Dan makes some awesome points. If you like it I recommend to you his podcast Hardcore History. Very useful with students.
Chuck Holland

VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, documents, and videos - 10 views

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  • Chuck Holland on 16 Jan 11
     
    You can use this to have students discuss photos, political cartoons, videos, etc
anonymous

The Making of African American Identity - Primary Sources - 9 views

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/index.htm Three large collections of primary source teaching material for you and your students. Covers years 1500 - 1968. Texts, images, contextualizing not...

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Jason Heiser

Create a new thread to discuss your topic online. | Mr.Thread | The on-demand board - 6 views

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  • Jason Heiser on 10 Mar 11
     
    create a backchannel instantly
HistoryGrl14 .

BBC - A History of the World - About - British Museum - 100 Objects - 8 views

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  • HistoryGrl14 . on 27 Sep 11
     
    This is a really cool site! There is also a podcast to accompany each object. There is an audio podcast and an enlargeable graphic of the object. These are great to use as bellwork, or within a lesson, or even as homework! I usually devise my own set of question(s) to go with the podcast and object - whether quiz style questions or longer discussion style questions.
David Hilton

Group World History Honors's best content - 9 views

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  • David Hilton on 11 Oct 09
     
    A brilliant example of how to use Diigo with a class. We wouldn't be able to do this given the restrictions we have on assessment, yet the way annotations are used as student discussion is inspiring. Some great analysis on Bronze Age sources (which my students struggle to find).
David Hilton

National Council for the Social Studies - National Council for the Social Studies Commu... - 13 views

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  • David Hilton on 11 Oct 09
     
    I thought I'd already saved this to the group. It's an excellent community of social studies teachers and has some really thought-provoking discussions going on. I've found the contributors there to be very smart and well-trained in history teaching (just like us!).
HistoryGrl14 .

Teachers Guide - Is Wal-Mart Good For America? | Teacher Center | FRONTLINE | PBS - 13 views

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  • HistoryGrl14 . on 15 Apr 11
     
    PBS lesson plan, with video, discussion questions, etc
HistoryGrl14 .

Story of Stuff, Full Version; How Things Work, About Stuff - YouTube - 10 views

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environment story of stuff AP Human Geography APHG

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  • HistoryGrl14 . on 12 Oct 11
     
    VERY COOL video - one of my students actually shared it with me! I plan to use this with my AP Human Geography students! In my case I may use it as an opener to the class as to what types of things we will cover and the connectedness of everything. Also great for Industrialization, Globalization, etc!
  • wilnbroc on 16 Oct 11
     
    I would like to encourage you to view or research some critiques of this material. After I viewed your post, I did some research and it looks like there is good criticism out there of this video that it portrays a one sided argument. I don't believe the video is wholly inaccurate. However, the video does present information that is easily questionable due to inaccurate and impartial interpretations. Part of our duty as great teachers it to present all facts and allow young citizens to use their own questioning to make informed decisions.
  • HistoryGrl14 . on 17 Oct 11
     
    I don't disagree with you. You don't have to 'encourage me to research critiques'. Maybe I should have written more when I posted it, but I was in a rush and just bookmarked it typed quick comments. I actually had seen the critiques. However, the way in which it is made, and things included are great for use as discussion starters and prompts for fact finding. I didn't include my lesson plan or the way I personally plan to use it, as I felt that was not relevant. I think each person can decide on their own how to use it. I agree great teachers do have a job to teach studnets to critically question and analyze - something I do all the time with my students. It helps when there is compelling items like this video to garner their interest. One of the things my students look at during our time together is motivation, and bias. So when I show it, my students will also be looking at who funded the video, and follow that trail back to look at biases that the group/companies involved might have. Also, with the different portions, as you mention, it is one sided in areas, so again, part of my personal lesson plan with this is that as we reach various portions of class that correlate with the video, my studnets will be viewing that portion and doing their own addition of the other side of the story. And I use a strategy called "philosophical chairs" and portions of this video along iwth well constructed starter questions are great for utilization in that situation.
Sallee Humanities

Why the Black Death was the mother of all plagues - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting C... - 10 views

www.abc.net.au/...3555568

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  • Sallee Humanities on 13 Oct 11
     
    This one is at least recent - some good discussion and links after the article also.
Walter Antoniotti

Presidential Election Issues - 13 views

I've put together some material for class discussions at http://www.textbooksfree.org/Presidential%20Election%20Issues.htm

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Ed Webb

BBC News - History, with rose-tinted hindsight - 5 views

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  • As one official explained, "we understand that school is a unique social institution that forms all citizens"; which means it is essential they should be taught history, especially the right kind of history. "We need a united society," the apparatchik goes on, and to achieve that end, "we need a united textbook".
  • in 1934, it was Stalin himself who convened an earlier meeting of historians to discuss the very same issue, namely the teaching of history in Russian schools. He disapproved of the conventional class-based accounts then available, which were strongly influenced by Marxist doctrines, and which traced the development of Russia from feudalism to capitalism and beyond. Not even Stalin's hometown wanted to be associated with him anymore... "These textbooks," Stalin thundered, "aren't good for anything. It's all epochs and no facts, no events, no people, no concrete information." History, he concluded somewhat enigmatically, "must be history" - by which, in this case, he meant a cavalcade of national heroes, whose doings might appeal more broadly to the Russian people than the arid abstractions of class analysis and social structure.
  • Who, for example, should decide what history is taught in schools: should it be the government, or academic experts, or examination boards, or the schools themselves, or even the parents?
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  • for the last 18 months, I've been leading a project, based at the Institute of Historical Research, which is looking into the history of the teaching of history in schools in England since it first became a serious activity early in the 20th Century. And one of our most important discoveries so far has been the extent to which similar questions have been asked across the decades and generations, and often in complete ignorance of how they've been answered before.
HistoryGrl14 .

Child Labor and the British Industrial Revolution, Part 1 - 5 views

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  • HistoryGrl14 . on 08 Mar 10
     
    could be used as a discussion starter for advanced students
anonymous

Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History - 10 views

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/freedom.htm Essays, primary sources, bibliographies, images, ideas for classroom discussion, current scholarly debate, and more.

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rachelworman

Help! Need teacher advice for my college class! - 5 views

I am doing an assignment for one of my teaching classes. Please help me out by answering at least one of my questions. I would love to have a discussion with you! 1. What advice do you have for a ...

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Eric Beckman

Haiti and the Atlantic World | Sources and Resources for Discussions about Haiti and Ha... - 1 views

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    Blog, Dessalines Reader, Links to Resources
Javier E

Opinion | The Republican Climate Closet - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • the 2015 subsidies were part of a much larger, must-pass budget bill. So was the 2018 tax credit for burying emissions. But with Republicans in full control of Congress, you can bet those measures would not have gotten through unless senior people in the party had wanted it to happen.
  • he looked me in the eye.“We know this problem is real,” he said, or words to that effect. “We know we are going to have to do a deal with the Democrats. We are waiting for the fever to cool.”
  • He meant the fever in the Republican base, then in full foaming-at-the-mouth, Tea Party mode. Denial of climate change was an article of faith in the Tea Party, and lots of Republican officeholders who had been willing to discuss the problem and possible solutions just a few years earlier had gone into hiding
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  • The fever never really cooled, of course. It transmuted into the raging xenophobia and nativism that put Donald Trump in the White House
  • What the fellow told me that day still holds true: Lots of Republicans know in their hearts that this problem is real
  • Certainly, some Republicans seem to believe that scientists are engaged in a worldwide conspiracy to cook the books on climate change. But they’re not all that crazy. And you can see this in the way that bits and pieces of sensible climate policy keep sneaking through Congress.
  • As long as nobody in those red districts back home is really watching, Republican members of Congress will adopt low-key measures to help cut emissions. They especially like ones that offer additional benefits, like building up the tax base in rural communities, as wind and solar farms do.
  • they tell you the political situation may not be quite as hopeless as it looks. Lurking below the surface of our ugly politics is, I believe, a near consensus to do something big on climate change.
  • Even if Democrats take Congress and the White House in 2020 and push forward an ambitious climate bill in 2021, they are likely to need at least a handful of Republican votes in the Senate
  • We ought to hope for more than that. The policy will be more durable if it passes Congress with substantial bipartisan majorities, as all of our landmark environmental laws did.
  • the Republicans — some of them, at least — are starting to sense political risk in continued climate denial. Their constituents, battered by the fires and torrential rains and the incessant rise of tidal flooding, are knocking on the closet door.
  • Frank Luntz, the pollster who wrote a scurrilous memorandum 17 years ago counseling Republicans to obfuscate the science of climate change, is among those who have come around
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