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Nate Kogan

Featured Article, Teaching with Primary Sources (Library of Congress) - 0 views

  • Most important of all, these questions transform the act of reading from passive reception to an engaged and passionate interrogation. If we want students to remember historical facts, this approach, not memorization, is the key.
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    A nice, concise Sam Wineburg article outlining his key arguments about "historical thinking" and how it can be fostered through the use of Primary Source documents.
Nate Kogan

Education Week: Inverting Bloom's Taxonomy - 3 views

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    Really good piece on how to approach history as a learner and develop the skill of historical thinking (and most importantly, how historical thinking differs from the collection and regurgitation of disconnected knowledge). This piece also does a really nice job talking about how to read for historical context and begin one's evaluation of a primary source with the moment in which it is written rather than the content that it describes.
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    Really good piece on how to approach history as a learner and develop the skill of historical thinking (and most importantly, how historical thinking differs from the collection and regurgitation of disconnected knowledge). This piece also does a really nice job talking about how to read for historical context and begin one's evaluation of a primary source with the moment in which it is written rather than the content that it describes.
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