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Creating Interactive Lessons Through App Smashing

A Principal's Reflections

Content consumption does not equate to the construction of new knowledge, discourse, answering questions, solving a problem, or creating a learning artifact. I often recommend the use of this tool in History as a way to explore primary source documents. That is a good start, but not a solution if learning is the goal.

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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

Some of those articles are written for mass-market publications, while others focus on specific topics and outlets ranging from nursing to Black culture to material artifacts. Bunk demonstrates that our discipline matters in ways young people cannot see in textbooks, static documents, and often outdated historiographic debates.

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How Edtech for Teachers Helps Collaboration and Professional Learning

Edthena

You’re] able to give really specific praise and feedback in a particular area, when you have that video artifact.”. Monica shared, “It’s a good opportunity to build out an artifact of your professional experience over the course of the year.” A digital portfolio can be very helpful to share when applying to new jobs or roles.

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The Week That Was In 234

Moler's Musing

It’s been a huge time saver, especially since it allowed me to focus more on the classroom and less on the stress of documenting every detail. This part helped students connect primary source analysis to the broader motivations for European exploration, further deepening their historical thinking skills.

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My Goal as a History Teacher: Create Curators

Rosie the History Teacher

There are thousands of amazing primary sources available from the Smithsonian including photographs, documents, physical objects, audio, and video. Change the title and description, add and remove artifacts from the collection, and make it into exactly what you need! It is free!) Now, you can edit the collection.

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Why Our Students Aren’t (and Can’t Be) Historians

4QM Teaching

That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. Jon and I believe very strongly that students in social studies classes should engage with meaningful artifacts created by the people we’re studying. What’s weird is that Question Two pretty much exhausted the consultant’s rubric.

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Beyond Screens: The Benefits of Paper-Based Learning for Elementary Students

Studies Weekly

Creating Connections Because Studies Weekly’s print publications are consumable, students can create artifacts to demonstrate their learning by cutting the primary sources and other information out of their publications. Explaining what they know increases their confidence and solidifies their knowledge. Salmerón, L.,