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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. Those resources present the latest discoveries from primary sources, place-based learning, graphic novels, podcasts, and videos.

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Throwback Thursday: Primary sources and personal stories = awesome sauce

History Tech

I got the chance this week to chat a bit with my kids – both now in Minnesota. And during the convo with the youngest, we ended up talking about a letter written by a Norwegian ski instructor in 1943. The guy was teaching US and Canadian special ops guys to ski as part of […]

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Most Students Think History Is Boring. Here's How We Change That.

ED Surge

I often weave these historical narratives into content through primary sources. I love using primary sources and personal narratives to make history more relevant for my students, but that takes second place to tangible pieces of history like my family artifacts, such as my great-grandfather's World War I uniform.

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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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OPINION: How best do we teach kids about Holocaust horrors? Show them what it was like

The Hechinger Report

Standing in a recreated virtual space helps users learn something qualitatively different from simply looking at a photograph, reading primary source material or listening to survivor testimony.

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Moler's Musing

This part helped students connect primary source analysis to the broader motivations for European exploration, further deepening their historical thinking skills. To enhance their writing, we utilized AI feedback through Claude Artifact, allowing students to receive targeted suggestions on how to improve their topic sentences.