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Response: Ways To Deal With 'History Myths' In The Classroom

nitajo sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 38, Clicks: 4)
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Larry Ferlazzo's blog gives a few responses to the question, "What history myths are being perpetuated by textbooks that you attempt to break down/challenge in your classroom? How do you do that?"

1 comments | Tags: larry ferlazzo history stephen lazar releah cossett lent bill bigelow | Topic: Secondary BAD >_<

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Oklahoma: Students win award for Tulsa Race Riots Project

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 53, Clicks: 4)
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Two Sequoyah Middle School eighth-graders won a national history award for their project about a major event that doesn't even appear in many history books.

1 comments | Tags: oklahoma tulsa race riots national history day broken arrow oklahoma history | Topic: Secondary BAD >_<

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Oklahoma: Teacher brings history to life

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 79, Clicks: 4)
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Jan McClaren is the history teacher you wish you could have had.

1 comments | Tags: claremore oklahoma social studies history jan mcclaren creativity | Topic: Secondary BAD >_<

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Save the Date: Infinity Ring by James Dashner

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 107, Clicks: 4)
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Rick Riordan -- Admit it. You’ve fantasized about time travel. You’ve wondered what it would be like to visit your own past and slap some sense into your younger self. Perhaps you’ve imagined having dinner with Leonardo, or sitting in the emperor’s box in the Roman Colosseum.

1 comments | Tags: scholastic the infinity ring gamers history rick riordan | Topic: Elementary/Primary BAD >_<

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Scholastic's 'Infinity Ring' a multimedia ride through history

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 101, Clicks: 5)
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For young readers who are also gamers, 'The Infinity Ring' series from Scholastic offers a chance to interact with history through a role-playing video game.

1 comments | Tags: scholastic the infinity ring gamers history apps | Topic: Elementary/Primary BAD >_<

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National curriculum declares history un-Australian

Buldog sumitted ago via http://educationviews.org (Views: 88, Clicks: 5)
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THE Victorian government has raised concerns about the level of Australian history to be taught to year 11 and 12 history students under the proposed national curriculum. Australian history will not be taught as a stand-alone subject in the senior years under the national curriculum, with modern and ancient history the only two subjects to be offered nationwide.

1 comments | Tags: australia australian history history | Topic: Other BAD >_<

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Is Australian history boring?

Buldog sumitted ago via http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au (Views: 83, Clicks: 5)
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Chris Rice pulled no punches. ''Australian history is boring and dull and largely irrelevant to the trajectory of the future of the world,'' he posted on The Age's website this week. Australians were global citizens who took their cultural cues from America, Asia and Europe. Students should be learning about these countries rather than ''some drunk bogans with beards (the Kelly gang) wandering around boring dusty towns drinking whiskey. Who cares?''

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Singapore: WWII Japanese soldier bursts in... to teach history

Kbuck sumitted ago via http://www.thejakartapost.com (Views: 97, Clicks: 5)
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Like a time-machine traveler, the World War II Japanese soldier burst into the classroom. That dramatic entrance gave goosebumps to some of the 40 seated Secondary 2 students, even though they knew the sword-wielding Japanese sergeant was their history teacher, Mr Malcolm Tan.

2 comments | Tags: singapore japan history japanese occupation from 1942 to 1945 chung cheng high school | Topic: Secondary BAD >_<

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Singapore: Let's not remain stuck in teaching a one-sided view of a cruel Japan

Kbuck sumitted ago via http://www.straitstimes.com (Views: 113, Clicks: 7)
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Liew Kai Khiun -- In the month when the world falls silent to mark the first anniversary of the devastating Tohoku earthquake, I was shocked to read of a Chung Cheng High School teacher's insensitive portrayal of a Japanese soldier as one who wields a sword, is cruel and one-dimensional ('Japanese soldier bursts in... to teach history'; Sunday).

2 comments | Tags: singapore japan liew kai khiun history tohoku earthquake | Topic: Secondary BAD >_<

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Australia: Schools become the dustbin of history

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 117, Clicks: 8)
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Christopher Bantick -- British historian Simon Schama once observed of contemporary students, "What of history do they know?" It's a good question. A more immediate one is why don't Australian undergraduates want to know about their own country?

1 comments | Tags: australia history australian history la trobe university university of melbourne | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Book chronicling history of Putnam City schools is being developed

nitajo sumitted ago via http://newsok.com (Views: 106, Clicks: 4)
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A coffee-table book being developed is expected to include more than 250 pages and feature lots of photos from the history of Putnam City schools.

0 comments | Tags: putnam city schools gloria quaid history | Topic: Events BAD >_<

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Gwinnett teacher who resigned apologizes for writing slavery-themed questions

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.ajc.com (Views: 103, Clicks: 8)
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In a statement to school officials obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday, Rivera, a teacher at the school since August 2008, apologized and said some of the questions he wrote were in “poor taste.”

1 comments | Tags: gwinnett county georgia math worksheet slavery history math teachers | Topic: Elementary/Primary BAD >_<

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Norcross parents upset by slavery in school math worksheet

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.ajc.com (Views: 134, Clicks: 17)
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Gwinnett County parents and activists have blasted the school district’s response following reports that students at a Norcross elementary school received a math worksheet that used examples of slavery in word problems.

2 comments | Tags: gwinnett county georgia math worksheet slavery history math teachers | Topic: Elementary/Primary BAD >_<

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BBC - Dimensions

Newman sumitted ago via http://howbigreally.com (Views: 154, Clicks: 5)
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Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are. This is an experimental prototype for the BBC. The goal is to bring home the human scale of events and places in history. The D-Day landing beaches measured from London to Norfolk in the UK. How far would the Titanic stretch down your street?

0 comments | Tags: interactive site dimensions vocabulary estimation history | Topic: Online Learning BAD >_<

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Is knowing history so important?

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 141, Clicks: 4)
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Jay Mathews -- I know we are about to celebrate the Fourth of July. I have seen the fervent demands for better teaching of history after poor results were announced on the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress history tests. But I wonder if learning the details of our country’s story is as important as we think it is.

0 comments | Tags: history national assessment of educational progress nation’s report card jay mathews sam wineburg | Topic: Events BAD >_<

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Response: Ways To Deal With 'History Myths' In The Classroom

Oklahoma: Students win award for Tulsa Race Riots Project

Oklahoma: Teacher brings history to life

Save the Date: Infinity Ring by James Dashner

Scholastic's 'Infinity Ring' a multimedia ride through history

National curriculum declares history un-Australian

Is Australian history boring?

Singapore: WWII Japanese soldier bursts in... to teach history

Singapore: Let's not remain stuck in teaching a one-sided view of a cruel Japan

Australia: Schools become the dustbin of history

Book chronicling history of Putnam City schools is being developed

Gwinnett teacher who resigned apologizes for writing slavery-themed questions

Norcross parents upset by slavery in school math worksheet

BBC - Dimensions

Is knowing history so important?

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