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Decades Project for US History

Active History Teacher

I have tried several projects over the years: Oral History projects, “pick a topic from this year and research deeper”, Instagram summaries, etc. Students begin their research on the following topics for their decade: fashion, innovations, music, fads, key events, literature, popular culture, kids/toys. Sound familiar?

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Using Conversational Video

HistoryRewriter

This post will describe the importance of having secondary students engage in oral history projects and describe a new Artificial Intelligence technology StoryFile that can help students practice posing questions to pre-recorded conversational video without the heightened anxiety that comes with actually talking to a real person.

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STUDENT VOICES: When you’re a teenager you feel like an outsider already

The Hechinger Report

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Lilianna Salcedo, a 10th-grader at USC Hybrid High School in Los Angeles. How would you describe your school?

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‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

The Hechinger Report

The district will be holding an expanded summer school this year and is investing in mental health counselors and early literacy. . Katina Harris , middle school English teacher and president of the local teachers’ union. Even when we were in elementary school, like with the stock market crash, everyone moved.