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Social Media Meets the Enlightenment: Year 2
Originally posted on Michael K. Milton ~ @42ThinkDeep:
What better way to make the Enlightenment come alive than to have my World History students create Blogger sites and set up a conversation on Twitter! In our activity, students were hired by…
Absolute Monarchy’s Ultimate Class Playlist: Pairing Music with History
When I began school this year, I decided to create a class playlist – finding music that encapsulated what we did for each day in class and posting it in the room for all to see. Not only will this … Continue reading
Common Core State Standard Rubric for History/Social Studies 11-12
For the past few weeks, my colleague Todd Whitten and I have been sharing some work that we have done with the Common Core State Standards for History/Social Studies. During this process, we created rubrics based upon the 9-10th Grade … Continue reading
Primary Documents, Social Studies, and the Common Core: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Last week, Todd Whitten and I shared ways to hit the different Common Core Standards for Social Studies/History using technology. This week, we are launching our work on Primary Documents and the Common Core (check out Todd’s post on using … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century Skills, Common Core, education, History, Social Studies
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Technology, Social Studies, and the Common Core: Part II
This summer I have been working with Todd Whitten on how we can integrate the Common Core Standards for History/Social Studies into the classroom for this upcoming year. Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing what we have … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century Skills, Common Core, education, History, Social Studies, Technology
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Originally posted on Michael K. Milton ~ @42ThinkDeep:
Edit: I have transitioned this to using todaysmeet.com rather than Twitter. The activity works the same, but we are in a walled garden that is much easier to set up than Twitter is. In…
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Close Reading and the Magic Eye – A quick thought
After researching close reading strategies for a lesson that I want to do sometime in the next few weeks, I had an epiphany of sorts while running past my eye doctor’s office. Last fall, I spent hours upon hours waiting … Continue reading
