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Creating Interactive Lessons Through App Smashing

A Principal's Reflections

First and foremost, we must always keep sound pedagogy in mind, something that I discuss at length in Digital Leadership. I often recommend the use of this tool in History as a way to explore primary source documents. We know that teachers, like they always do, will rise to the occasion.

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An Inquiry Discussion Guide

C3 Teachers

But these old-school pedagogies seemed mechanical compared to what’s possible with inquiry. I wanted discussion in the context of disciplinary tasks, and I found a new opportunity with the Library of Congress’ “Primary Source Analysis Tool.” It was just unnervingly quiet most days. So, why was my classroom so quiet?

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Anthropology News

Together, these experiments contribute to ongoing conversations about the pedagogical value of AI tools, core competencies needed for AI literacy, and pedagogies that prepare students (and professors) to effectively, creatively, and ethically engage AI in the work of anthropology. But can we trust what it has to say?

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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. Question Two) — is most appropriately addressed by interpreting primary sources. Generic accounts of thinking skills often treat document reading and analysis as the bread-and-butter of history teaching and learning.