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Patrick Higgins

Free Technology for Teachers: The History of Credit Cards in the United States - 0 views

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    CBS video detailing the history of credit cards.
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    8th Grade Budgeting unit?
Patrick Higgins

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The Collection. Newly Discovered Docu... - 0 views

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    Primary sources for history and writing.
Patrick Higgins

Google LatLong: Roman history comes to life in Google Earth - 0 views

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    hmmmmm....
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    Google unveils a major new layer for Earth. Plus, there is a K12 competition for writing curriculum around it.
Patrick Higgins

Body Ritual among the Nacirema - Wikisource - 0 views

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    I used this one when I taught world history/current events to teach perspective and bias.
Patrick Higgins

How To: Build Instruction Around Your Region's History | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Great service learning and community involvement projects and ideas.
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What to learn: 'core knowledge' or '21st-century skills'? - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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    Do kids learn to think by reading great literature, doing difficult math and learning history, philosophy and science? Or can they tackle those subjects on their own if schools simply teach them to problem-solve, communicate, use technology and think creatively?
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Shorpy Photo Archive | History in HD - 0 views

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    Incredible site for images of the early 20th Century.
Patrick Higgins

Maps of War ::: Visual History of War, Religion, and Government - 0 views

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    Flash maps for various historical events. I particularly like the World Religion one.
Patrick Higgins

Annenberg Media - A Biography of America - 0 views

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    Recommended by Clay Burell, this site looks promising for teachers to use to engage their students.
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    Great snippets of history throughout the ages. All media clips, too!
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Story Vault - 0 views

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    A great way for stories about events to be aggregated. You could put oral history projects done with veterans or others around a centralized topic.
Patrick Higgins

TED Talks Demystified for Teachers | The History Teacher's Attic - 0 views

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    Mummert's great groupings of TED talks.
Patrick Higgins

Reading in a Whole New Way | 40th Anniversary | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views

  • We can agree or disagree with Kevin, but the world keeps spinning. Screens are made and used in instructive and destructive ways. As an educator I need to learn to use screens as learning platforms so that I can model constructive informative behavior for the students I interact with. So here is how I came to write this post. I subscribe to Will Richardson's blog weblog-ed in my Google Reader. He shared a link to Kevin Kelly's blog Technium. As I read the blog post I used Diigo to underline and add sticky notes. I now have this annotation in my Diigo groups. I will Twitter this and add a link in the New Literacies Institute Ning at newlit.org. Kevin will sell a few more books, which I have hundreds of, and add more readers of his blog.
  • This article is very interesting because it made me think.And I thougt that I was right when I bought a computer for my 81st birthday.It has a wide screen,and I could enlarge the letters to be able to read it because my eyes are bad. I felt that I was not anymore excluded of the world.I had entered the 21st century. The last 12 or some years I spend writing a book by hand.Nobody would ever read a single word of the more than 400 pages.No editor would have accepted it.But is has been typed and now it is on the web.Everybody can read it,and sites of military history,dutch and french,published it or parts of it(I wrote it in french)because it is about the 1940-campaign. Thank you,dear author,you made me feel I was right.
  • Bring on the technology, we have plenty of idle brain space waiting to make use of it.
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    Kevin Kelly writes about how reading has changed from a silent, individual pastime to one that is collaborative, more physical pursuit.  
Patrick Higgins

How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas? | Edutopia - 0 views

  • "Adolescents entering the adult world in the 21st century will read and write more than at any other time in human history. They will need advanced levels of literacy to perform their jobs, run their households, act as citizens, and conduct their personal lives."
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      Let's not forget, also, about the "why?"
  • Content is what we teach, but there is also the how, and this is where literacy instruction comes in.
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