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Trust in America: Recovering What's Lost Podcast about people's rust in government. From NPR's All Things Considered

Interesting basis for our own investigation, 50 people one question video about trust in government or even school.

From Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers: "good site for creating, sharing, and locating tutorials for all kinds of technology-related things. Tildee provides a template and platform for sharing tutorials with others. Each tutorial you create is assigned a specific url that you can share with anyone. Your tutorials can include any combination of text, screen captures, and videos. Each tutorial that you create on Tildee is assigned a unique URL that you can share wherever you like."

"One thing kids (and adults) often have trouble with is the concept of scale. Understanding how big or small something is can be difficult if there is no familiar reference point of which to compare. Here are 3 sites that help students gain an understanding of size and how certain occurrences that happen on our planet compare to places that they are familiar with."

For World History for country analyis

"For years, magazines and newspapers have used photo galleries to tell stories. Photos can build emotion, provide information, encourage a specific action and create great questions. We can have our kids do the same thing by asking them to create Five Photo Stories. It seems like a great way for kids to activate prior knowledge, review information, learn new content or practice summarizing. It's basically an all-purpose graphic organizer! "

Check this lesson out.

"Watch YouTube videos without comments, suggestions, or the 'other' things."

Could be very useful for showing youtube videos in the classroom

It is not reforming but about rethinking education as a way to make substantive change in our current system.

Great points. We need to get everyone in the social studies dept. linked in here. Many of them have signed up for diigo but didn't join this group.

"I resolve to embrace a sense of vuja dé. We've all experienced déjà vu-looking at an unfamiliar situation and feeling like you've seen it before. Vuja dé is the flip side of that-looking at a familiar situation (an industry you've worked in for decades, problems you've worked on for years) as if you've never seen it before, and, with that fresh line of sight, developing a distinctive point of view on the future. The challenge for all of us is that too often, we let what we know limit what we can imagine. This is the year to face that challenge head-on."

Article in the times about the Triangle Fire and present day attempts to educate citizens about the event

Use the Triangle Fire to discuss community action

Very good easy to follow post on how to make your searches less personalized in order to break out of the info bubble!

Everyone needs to be aware of this issue. Using different search engines, databases, etc. also helps. Comparing and sharing sources also helps.

FB app that turns FB into a study center and allows students to collaborate with one another so they can work on school projects.

This could be a great thing to share with students