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Kenneth O'Regan

Truman Library - Social Studies web sites - 1 views

www.trumanlibrary.org/...sites.htm

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  • The National Assessment of Educational Progress has a website where released U.S. History items may be found
    • Kenneth O'Regan
      Kenneth O'Regan on 04 Oct 10
       
      Some items on this site might not be entirely up to date. It appears to me that this link is no longer active.
  • A website on the flags of the world
    • Kenneth O'Regan
      Kenneth O'Regan on 04 Oct 10
       
      Other websites, like this one, seem to be a little bit suspect. Use discretion.
  • Kenneth O'Regan on 04 Oct 10
     
    Say what you will about Harry Truman, but his library website has a vast cache of social studies links and resources, organized by topic. Some of the items go beyond social studies and into the realm of homework help and other teaching strategies. You may need to a dig a little bit to find exactly what you are looking for, but you can probably somehow get to it from here.
kkasargodstaub

National Archives - 2 views

www.archives.gov

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  • kkasargodstaub on 03 Oct 10
     
    Excellent resource for primary and secondary source material.
  • Adrea Lawrence on 04 Oct 10
     
    How might teachers use the site?
kyleassad

NationsIllustrated.com - The World in Pictures - 5 views

www.nationsillustrated.com

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shared by kyleassad on 04 Oct 10 - Cached
    • kyleassad
      kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
       
      This site is a great way to display areas of the world that are being discussed.  It is not very well cited, but it does provide options to find photographs at National Geographic as well.
    • kyleassad
      kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
       
      I would use this during a geography lesson, by showing them a picture of a recognizable landmark.  We would figure out what it was, where it was, and then find the absolute location, all part of DC 7th Grade Standards.
    • kyleassad
      kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
       
      This site most likely does not rate very high by Berkeley standards.  That being said, I think it is a great option to be able to show kids exactly what you are talking about on the SMART board.
  • kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
     
    The ability to show students images of countries, places, cities, and landscapes.  An awesome way to show students the world without leaving the classroom.
Adrea Lawrence

Education Week: News and Information About Issues in Education for Educators - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...index.html

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shared by Adrea Lawrence on 24 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Adrea Lawrence on 24 Jun 08
     
    Edweek.org is your one-stop-shop for all the latest news and information about the field of education. We cover local, state, and national news and issues from preschool through the 12th grade. Updated daily.
Adrea Lawrence

Educators and Students - Maps of Indian Territory, the Dawes Act, and Will Rogers' Enrollment Case File - 0 views

www.archives.gov/...fed-indian-policy

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  • Adrea Lawrence on 24 Jun 08
     
    The National Archives Digital Classroom: Primary Sources, Activities and Training for Educators and Students.
Alan Edwards

Television News Archive - 0 views

tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/?SID=20090920672576904

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    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 20 Sep 09
       
      The Television News Archive was created and is maintained by Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. AU subscribes to the archive, which allows us to view many of the streaming videos online.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 20 Sep 09
       
      You can search for a specific news broadcast by topic or date. Often you can find specific segments during a news program or you can watch the entire news program. If you are looking for a specific date in history you can go right the the day, week, or month that the event occurred or was being covered.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 20 Sep 09
       
      In the classroom, I think this would be a great medium for independent research. Students could focus on a topic or event in recent history and report/analyze the news coverage of the topic/event. In general, the media could help students understand how Americans understood or misunderstood an event.
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  • The Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. We have been recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968.
  • Alan Edwards on 20 Sep 09
     
    The Television News Archive is a database of nightly news broadcasts in the US from 1968. American University subscribes to the database, and it can be accessed through the library's website. At the news archive, you can search the database of nightly news programs for a specific date or topic. Then, you can watch many of these streaming videos online.
Erin Power

Reauthorization of ESEA: Why We Can't Wait -- Secretary Arne Duncan's Remarks at the Monthly Stakeholders Meeting - 1 views

www.ed.gov/...09242009.html

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shared by Erin Power on 27 Sep 09 - Cached
    • Joellen Kriss
      Joellen Kriss on 27 Sep 09
       
      What a conundrum this is...
  • People want support from Washington but not interference. They want accountability but not oversight. They want national leadership but not at the expense of local control.
  • And now that I'm here I'm even more convinced that the best solutions begin with parents and teachers working together in the home and the classroom.
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  • Many teachers complain bitterly about NCLB's emphasis on testing. Principals hate being labeled as failures. Superintendents say it wasn't adequately funded.
  • And many parents just view it as a toxic brand that isn't helping children learn.
    • Joellen Kriss
      Joellen Kriss on 27 Sep 09
       
      I like how he/his speech writers recognize here that schooling is something that belongs to the states. It seems like he's saying that the federal government is just stepping in for a moment, until things start going well.
  • Until states develop better assessments—which we will support and fund through Race to the Top—we must rely on standardized tests to monitor progress—but this is an important area for reform and an important conversation to have.
  • it places too much emphasis on absolute test scores rather than student growth—and it is overly prescriptive in some ways while it is too blunt an instrument of reform in others.
    • Joellen Kriss
      Joellen Kriss on 27 Sep 09
       
      SUPER DUPER BINGO! NCLB encourages hig TESTING standards, but not LEARNING standards!! Good for you Arne (that's what he wants his staff to call him...in case you didn't know.)
  • NCLB is that it doesn't encourage high learning standards. In fact, it inadvertently encourages states to lower them. The net effect is that we are lying to children and parents by telling kids they are succeeding when, in fact, they are not.
    • Joellen Kriss
      Joellen Kriss on 27 Sep 09
       
      This is one of the issues in my practicum schools and one of the big debates there right now.
  • We don't believe that local educators need a prescription for success. But they do need a common definition of success—focused on student achievement, high school graduation and success and attainment in college.
    • Joellen Kriss
      Joellen Kriss on 27 Sep 09
       
      ...because the goals are and always have been, decent, but the means, are and always have been, bad (to keep it clean.)
  • In my view, we should be tight on the goals—with clear standards set by states that truly prepare young people for college and careers—but we should be loose on the means for meeting those goals.
  • They are simply not ready for college-level work when they leave high school.
    • Joellen Kriss
      Joellen Kriss on 27 Sep 09
       
      But do they really?
  • Before we do, however, we want to hear from you. We want your input.
  • We don't need another study. We must stop simply admiring the problem. We need action.
  • And so the work of reauthorizing ESEA begins in states and districts across America—among educators and policy makers, parents and community leaders. This work is as urgent as it is important.
  • And yet we are still waiting for the day when every child in America has a high quality education that prepares him or her for the future.
  • Our shared goals are clear: higher quality schools; improved student achievement; more students going to college; closing the achievement gap; and more opportunities for children to learn and succeed.
  • Let's build a law that respects the honored, noble status of educators—who should be valued as skilled professionals rather than mere practitioners and compensated accordingly.
  • Joellen Kriss on 27 Sep 09
     
    Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's speech at the Monthly Stakeholders meeting this past week. It's a part of a series of town hall style meetings that the secretary is holding with those who have a stake in the policy they will be shaping: teachers, parents and others. The speech is interesting mostly because, what he's calling for sounds great to me, but I wonder if there's any possibility of anything this reasonable ever happening. Secretary Duncan seems like an ok guy (didn't know he is a former superintendent) but I still wonder what the next big thing is going to turn out to be and how/if it's going to help.
  • Erin Power on 05 Oct 09
     
    The Duncan speech we were talking about in class
Erin Power

New to English - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ELL-students.html

ESL Education

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    • Erin Power
      Erin Power on 04 Sep 09
       
      This map takes statistics from the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Education Programs and maps it out so it is more meaningful.
    • Erin Power
      Erin Power on 04 Sep 09
       
      I think this site is valuable because its a great example of what can be done with the internet, its an interactive map that shows social change on both a widespread and small level.
    • Erin Power
      Erin Power on 04 Sep 09
       
      A teacher could use this site to understand the reality that they will most definitely teach to students who do not speak English, and deciding a plan for how they will approach this situation. Also, they could use it in a social studies classroom as a visual demonstration of a widespread social change.
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    • Erin Power
      Erin Power on 04 Sep 09
       
      The rise in English learners is a remarkably fast growing trend in the past few years - one that teachers need to be ready to deal with.
    • Erin Power
      Erin Power on 04 Sep 09
       
      Its important to Note the information in DC - there is a very high population of English Language Learners.
  • Erin Power on 04 Sep 09
     
    This map shows the growing population of English Language Learners (students who are not fluent English speakers) in the American school system.
  • Alan Edwards on 15 Sep 09
     
    This interactive graph is so interesting! I like these kinds of web tools.
jbdrury

iLearn Technology » Social Studies - 3 views

ilearntechnology.com/?tag=social-studies

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    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
       
      Each post has tags like these
  • Meet Me at the Corner
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
       
      I thought this "Meet Me at the Corner" site was particularly interesting, and with the proper resources it could be cool to involve a class in creating videos to post in connection with DC history.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
       
      Furthermore, this could be connected to neighborhood studies, perhaps done by the students themselves and added to this site
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  • What it is: Meet Me at the Corner is an inventive site that seeks to take students on virtual field trips through videos created by students.  The site started with video podcasts of the history and people of New York City.  As the site grows through student submissions, people and events of other towns, cities, and nations will be highlighted.
  • jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
     
    I'm not certain this hasn't already been posted; I did a search in our groups and didn't see it. iLearn Technology is an interesting and useful blog, where people post descriptions and links to other tech-savvy web sites and applications that can be a great resource to teachers. Though most of the sites I have looked at would probably be aimed more towards K-6 classrooms, others extend at least into middle school. Much like our diigo, each post is tagged with keywords so that you may search their site by subject or category.
Laura Wood

National Constitution Center: Interactive Constitution - 1 views

ratify.constitutioncenter.org/constitution

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  • Search theInteractive Constitution:
  • Discover how the Constitution relates to more than 300 indexed topics from school prayer to civil rights.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 08 Oct 09
       
      You can search by topic and see how different hot topics relate to the Constitution
  • Search the text of the Constitution by Supreme Court decisions.
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  • Search the text of the Constitution by Supreme Court decisions.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 08 Oct 09
       
      So this I think is super rad, you can search by Supreme Court cases and see which piece of the Constitution each case centered around
  • This Interactive Constitution is based on The Words We Live By:
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 08 Oct 09
       
      Very Important! So this interpretation of the Constitution is taken from the perspective of Linda R. Monk who wrote the oft used text "The Words we Live By" and "Bill of Rights: A Users Guide". For more info about Linda Monk, check out http://lindamonk.com/
  • Interactive Constitution:
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 08 Oct 09
       
      You can search the Constitution by keyword!
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 08 Oct 09
       
      At the bottom right of the page is a button where you can pring the constitution in its entirety
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 08 Oct 09
       
      At the top of this home page are various boxes that say "Preamble," "Article I," etc. If you click any of these, what comes up is that section of the Constitution. If you hover over a section of the text, a portion will be highlighted. If you click on that section, that bit of text will be explained below. The interpretation given of what that text means comes from Linda R. Monk's book. There are also sometimes interpretations given by Supreme Court justices or other additional information.
  • Laura Wood on 08 Oct 09
     
    Interactive Constitution! Broken down into Preamble, Articles, and Amendments, which are each broken down into the original text, and then if you click different pieces of the text it explains what they mean. You can also search the entire constitution for key words, search by topics, or search by court case
Maria Mahon

Study Finds High Rate of Imprisonment Among Dropouts - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...09dropout.html

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  • about one in every 10 young male high school dropouts is in jail or juvenile detention, compared with one in 35 young male high school graduates
    • Maria Mahon
      Maria Mahon on 12 Oct 09
       
      These statistics are really shocking - 1 in 10 dropouts in jail compared to 1 in 35 high school graduates.
  • The report puts the collective cost to the nation over the working life of each high school dropout at $292,000.
    • Maria Mahon
      Maria Mahon on 12 Oct 09
       
      Not that financial cost is everything or reveals the true extent of the effects this problem has on a community, but this is a large sum of money.
  • Again, the statistics were worse for young African-American dropouts, whose unemployment rate last year was 69 percent, compared with 54 percent for whites and 47 percent for Hispanics
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  • Young female dropouts were nine times more likely to have become single mothers than young women who went on to earn college degrees, the report said, citing census data for 2006 and 2007.
    • Maria Mahon
      Maria Mahon on 12 Oct 09
       
      Young women were nine times more likely to have become single mothers... also a staggering number when you think of the extra challenges they will face in life.
  • Maria Mahon on 12 Oct 09
     
    In light of all the recent discussions about DC schools and dropout rates, I found this article to be particularly relevant and upsetting. According to the study, about 1 in 10 male high school dropouts is in jail or juvenile detention (compared with 1 in 35 high school graduates).
Lindsay Andreas

Summer Books - National Geographic Traveler - 2 views

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  • Whatever your plans, we have a book for you, selected from our online Ultimate Travel Library of classic and new reads with a great sense of place. Each of these books will illuminate your destination, give you unexpected tips on what to see and do, and keep you turning pages during that long flight or that sunny poolside afternoon.
    • Lindsay Andreas
      Lindsay Andreas on 23 Oct 09
       
      So for the first half of my time at McKinley we had a class called Global Perspectives and nobody knew what we were supposed to teach because it was brand new. My teacher thought it was a pain but I thought it was such a cool opportunity to have a lot of teacher freedom. They had a book that taught them about different contemporary issues around the world but it was really negative. So in order to balance out some of that negativity, particularly regarding developing countries, I think it would be cool to choose a cool travel book about some of the places. Especially if you were in a school that had a English/Social Studies department relationship. Some of the books wouldn't be very good to use but out of 50 titles, there were a few that sparked my interest.
  • The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time, by Simon Winchester (1996). Historian Winchester seems to know everything, but he's such an engaging raconteur you can hardly begrudge him his smarts. Here he travels the 3,434-mile (5,526-kilometer)Yangtze River, reflecting on the historic importance of the river and the social straits in which the Chinese now find themselves.
    • Lindsay Andreas
      Lindsay Andreas on 23 Oct 09
       
      This is one that sparked my interest because it is written by a historian. I think what he did was so cool. He journeyed down the Yangtze river and tied the past and present, which is the only way to truly understand a sense of place and cultures.
Lindsay Andreas

EconEdLink | Current Events - 2 views

www.econedlink.org/current

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shared by Lindsay Andreas on 20 Oct 09 - Cached
  • EconEdLink provides access to the latest economics news and information. Come here to learn more about what's happening in the world of economics and access related lesson
    • Lindsay Andreas
      Lindsay Andreas on 20 Oct 09
       
      I really like this part of the website because it keeps track of current events in economics and gives you related lessons. My understanding is that economic education works best when you give the kids real-life examples. My teacher likes to bring up the healthcare package a lot and it works because the students know that this is a big issue and it puts context to things.
  • A premier source of classroom tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students
    • Lindsay Andreas
      Lindsay Andreas on 20 Oct 09
       
      NCEE (National Council on Economic Education) likes to use real life context in their lesson plans. There are simulations, group decision/problem solving solving, etc. They believe in the education principle of learn by doing (Dewey) and I think economics needs real world context even more so than other subjects.
  • Alan Edwards on 31 Oct 09
     
    I second this - this is a great resource for incorporating economics into the lesson plans-I really dig a lesson plan here on voter turn-out.
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