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post about teaching students about media literacy.

Some good ideas here.

"The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the use of Howard Zinn's best-selling book A People's History of the United States and other materials for teaching a people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. The Zinn Education Project is coordinated by two non-profit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. Its goal is to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. The empowering potential of studying U.S. history is often lost in a textbook-driven trivial pursuit of names and dates. Zinn's A People's History of the United States emphasizes the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history. Students learn that history is made not by a few heroic individuals, but instead by people's choices and actions, thereby also learning that their own choices and actions matter."

Suggests skills we should be teaching in classrooms. Lists 7 skills prized by the professional world

Great post on using google advanced search. Easy to follow ideas

Great post on teaching advanced search and why it is important to teach these techniques.

RT @freeresources: MLK Teaching Resources: speeches, bio, civil rights movement historic places, and more. http://go.usa.gov/r6X #MLK

"From March 21 through April 1, 2011, over 500 educators from around the world are participating in an online workshop hosted by Facing History and Ourselves, entitled "Teaching Reporter in the Classroom." The workshop explores the themes and stories from the documentary Reporter, which follows New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on a trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the film, we learn how Kristof works to get his readers to "care about what happens on the other side of the hill." We see how Kristof uses social science research and the tools of journalism to try to expand his readers' universe of responsibility - the people whom they feel obligated to care for and protect."

worth your time, questions we can pose to our students

This guide answers these questions, showing you how to get started on Twitter and showing you how Twitter can be used as a resource for research, teaching and impact activities. From the London School of Economics

A research level guide to using twitter as an academic research tool

very good piece on summarizings

"iCivics prepares young Americans to become knowledgeable, engaged 21st century citizens by creating free and innovative educational materials. In 2009, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor founded iCivics to reverse Americans' declining civic knowledge and participation. Securing our democracy, she realized, requires teaching the next generation to understand and respect our system of governance. Today iCivics comprises not just our board and staff, but also a national leadership team of state supreme court justices, secretaries of state, and educational leaders and a network of committed volunteers. Together, we are committed to passing along our legacy of democracy to the next generation."

Guide for presenting and teaching using CCCS's

Research is the 4th R

Great list of resources on infographics from the NY Times

Excellent article on importance of teaching students how to evaluate sources.

"ACRL Information Literacy Coordinating Committee gateway to resources on information literacy. These resources will help you understand and apply the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education to enhance teaching, learning, and research in the higher education community."

good to know what is expected of students at the college level

"APPiticis a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs)to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings."

REsources for teaching World History

Writing Beyond Expectations

Scott I see diigo as one way of achieving this. It gets students to reflect on what others have written and they can respond to others. But there are other tools to do this as well. The conversations going on in Jen's AP class are amazing. Almost 150 conversations to date!

Using Seinfeld clips to teach economics

Sites uses popular music to teach history. School librarian Joyce Valenza writes: "An article in the December 30 Washington Post turned me on to an amazing creative effort developed by a couple of teachers in Hawaii. History for Music Lovers on YouTube is song parody and remix at its most useful. The portal was launched by clever and talented Amy Burvall, of the Le Jardin Academy in Kailua, and Herb Mahelona, who used to work with her, at St. Andrew's Priory in Honolulu. I can see using these as models for creative student research projects. The clever remixing here also seems a cool way of examining transformativeness (repurposing and adding value) as it relates to fair use."... School Library Journal: NeverEndingSearch, Dec. 31; Washington Post, Dec. 30; History for Music Lovers

Watch these and imagine the possibilities in your class!

great visual on teaching wikipedia

Another great piece on the role of the school librarian.

Some great ideas for collaborating with the library!