"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.
Zoom In's online learning environment features 18 content-rich U.S. history units that supplement your regular instruction and help you use technology to support students' mastery of both content and skills required by the new, higher standards"
"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.
Zoom In's online learning environment features 18 content-rich U.S. history units that supplement your regular instruction and help you use technology to support students' mastery of both content and skills required by the new, higher standards"
insight and concrete examples that can help educators understand how computers are reshaping our economy, the jobs that will be available to our students & more importantly, how we can begin to restructure our classroom instruction to help develop the expert and complex thinking skills that are required to compete and hold a job in our changing economy.
Computers don't cause unemployment, they can replace only specific types of jobs / tasks:
1. Routine Cognitive - cognitive tasks that can be accomplished by following specific rules
2. Routine Manual - manual tasks that follow precise, physical movement that can be programmed
Step two, help our students developed the skills and abilities necessary to find, understand, analyze and evaluate information.
Article discusses the skills and experiences schools should focus on. Jobs that prize memorization and recall are being replaced by computers. What is valued can be fostered in a rich digital classroom.
"Schools continue to deliver new graduates into the workplace lacking the tech-based "soft skills" that businesses demand. Experts blame K-12's persistent failure to integrate technology."
Each activity-creation tool helps students develop historical thinking skills and gets them thinking like historians. Choose one of the tools below to begin. Then find and insert primary sources and customize the activity to fit your unique students.
Student Reporting labs connect students with a network of public broadcasting mentors, an innovative journalism curriculum and an online collaborative space to develop digital media, critical thinking and communication skills while producing original news reports
"Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action, a new policy paper by
Renee Hobbs, Professor at the School of Communications and the College of Education at Temple University and founder of its Media Education Lab, proposes a detailed plan that positions digital and media literacy as an essential life skill and outlines steps that policymakers, educators, and community advocates can take to help Americans thrive in the digital age."
"The "History Mysteries" lessons are designed as stand-alone projects which each last 3-4 hours.
Through engaging historical topics, they teach skills of problem formulation, deductive reasoning, independent research, groupwork and structured writing."
"Storify provides endless possibilities for combining media to tell more
comprehensive narratives that include multiple perspectives. And while the tool
has largely received attention for its journalistic uses, it's not a big leap to
see how Storify might be used in classrooms for research and presentations. It's
also a valuable tool for teaching media literacy and digital skills, including
collaboration."
"DPLA Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills by exploring topics in history, literature, and culture through primary sources. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. "
lifelong skills that should be taught in the library. It isn't just about research. This post isn't just meant to be read by librarians. Really good info for all subject areas.
very interesting post on reading and writing. Although not specifically directed at social studies there are many connections to the Soc. Studies classroom
This makes a lot of sense to me โ textbook as platform to be populated by the very teachers who will use them.
Canโt teachers respectfully and with regard for the law select, shape, mash and mix existing digital content into modules or learning objects for their learners. Might we even see commercial modules, produced by what use to be the textbook industry, t
ollowing the same model, communities of teachers can contributed well researched and carefully designed modules for portions of their curriculum (or standards if you insist) that they know well and about which they are especially passionate.
Might content curation become a 21st century skill that learners should be developing as part of their formal education? Should students be guided in growing their own digital textbooks into personal digital libraries?
"Yesterday, Mashable author, Sarah Kessler, wrote "The Case for Making Online Textbooks Open Source," where she drew attention to programs at MIT and Carnegie Mellon that post lectures and other course materials online for free. "