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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Beth Dichter
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Beth Dichter's insight:
What do you think are the ten most important developments in human history? What do you think your students would think? This infographic is from Norwich University Online and provides their view but I would suspect that our students might come up with a different list (as would many teachers). This would be a great topic for students to research and create their own infographic...which would probably include items not included in this one! 
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"Most English and social studies teachers no longer view graphic novels as simply "long comic books." The educational benefits of blending illustrations with narratives have been well established. But rarely do books come along that masterfully capture the dynamic, eye-popping power of art and history."
Beth Dichter's insight:
If our students are visual learners are there resources we can use to help make learning more interesting? How about graphic novels? This post explores 'The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation stating: An additional history book is discussed and there are links to additional resources on the value of using visuals in subjects areas. If using graphic novels is new concept for you, or if you are interested in learning more about reasons why to bring them to your classroom, this post will be helpful.
Peter Sampson's curator insight,
October 24, 2013 5:35 PM
Love what well made graphic novels make possible for more visual learners.
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If you're a visual learner like myself, then you know maps, charts and infographics can really help bring data and information to life. Maps can make a point resonate with readers and this c...
Beth Dichter's insight:
Maps are great visuals for teaching about concepts of space (as in spatial intelligence) and data. This collection of forty maps is diverse and you will find quite a few that you may want to share with students but check them out first. Based on the grade level you teach there may be maps you will not share. Luckily there are links to where the map was first found. A few of the maps are listed below. The one in the image is a "Map of 'Pangea' with Current International Borders." * Countries that do not use the Metric System * The Only 22 Countries in the World that Britain has not Invaded * Map of Time Zones in Antarctica * Global Internet Usage Based on Time of Day * World Map of Earthquakes since 1898 * The 7000 Rivers that Feed the Mississippi River
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Have you considered using songs as a way to teach your students, specifically protest songs that have helped shape history? This site has brought together a wide variety of protests songs and has them searchable in the following categories: * Anti-apartheid * Anti-war * Civil rights * Anti-poverty * Women's Rights * Other Once you choose a song you will be taken to a page that has the history of the original song (album, writer, year, artist, producer) as well as the lyrics, a short history of the song, a history of the song, a video, and possibly art. This site asks that you share your voice!
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"Let’s take a look at American History resources on Learnist. These five featured US history boards allow us to take a look at slices of the nation, from military to political to social history."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Learnist has many great resources and this post shares five that look at various times in American History. Check the list below to see if any are on interest to you (quoted from post): * The New Deal - primary source images and posters that can be used to study the CCC, Depression, and New Deal. She also includes articles to provide information about this period. * American Revolution - an interesting approach to curating the Revolution, choosing material that provides a comparative study between the American and Egyptian revolutions, as well as other learnings about the founding of our nation. * The Nastiest Campaigns in American History - [a look at] the worst mudslinging in election history. * American Civil War - outstanding resource for teaching the American Civil War–there are causes and effects there, as well as links to excellent online resources and documentaries. * Protest: Music and Movements that Shaped Society - protest in American social history
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Learn about 11 great resources that look at "a people's history" that come from the Zinn Education Project. These projects are a sampling that help teachers "teach outside the textbook." The goal of the Zinn Education Project is to teach history of the "ordinary people" which is often not in the textbook. This post on GOOD includes a variety of resources, including lessons, books and documentaries. Check out the materials posted in this article, or go directly to the site located at http://zinnedproject.org/.
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The Smithsonian asks and answers questions about science, art, history and culture, exciting the learning in everyone, every day. The Smithsonian has recently launched a new website seriouslyamazing.com which “poses questions and answers to show people how it can be an exciting resource for discovery and learning.” They have created " seven quirky characthers to symbolize the questions the Smithsonian asks and answers every day: * The Wild represents the diversity of the animal kingdom Take some time to explore this site. You may discover many new resources available at the Smithonian!
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The Library of Congress is an amazing resource. It is the largest library in the world and has put much of their collection online. What is available? "Spoken history, photographs, and iconic cultural resources are available as teaching resources, and many of them are neatly organized into lesson plans, collections, and themes, perfect for bringing them into the classroom." Since searching for the resources may be "overwhelming" this post provides "a short guide to making the most of the Library of Congress, with tips and ideas for activities, plus links to guides, resources, and tools that you can put to work in your classroom."
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"When we ask students to work with and learn from primary sources, we transform them into historians. Rather than passively receiving information from a teacher or textbook, students engage in the activities of historians — making sense of the stories, events and ideas of the past through document analysis. Use DocsTeach activities for classroom demonstration, as full-class activities, as small-group activities, or as individual in-class or homework assignments. Manage activities in your account. Share both activities you find and those you create with your students on DocsTeach." With many ready-to-use tools for teaching with documents and thousands of primary documents from the National Archives this site is rich with resources... Now available for the iPad - to download free app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/national-archives-docsteach/id513465174?mt=8
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"Twitter may have started off as a fun social media site for keeping up with friends and sharing updates about daily life, but it’s become much more than that for many users over the past few years as the site has evolved and grown...Whether you’re an academic or just interested in building your Twitter profile, keep reading to learn some tips and tricks that can help you take the first steps towards using Twitter for coursework, research, building a professional network, and beyond."
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The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents modified for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities. This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on issues from King Philip's War to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and make historical claims backed by documentary evidence.
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"ChronoZoom is an open source community project dedicated to visualizing the history of everything to bridge the gap between the humanities and sciences using the story of Big History to easily understand all this information. This project has been funded and supported by Microsoft Research Connections in collaboration with University California at Berkeley and Moscow State University. You can browse through history on ChronoZoom to find data in the form of articles, images, video, sound, and other multimedia. ChronoZoom links a wealth of information from five major regimes that unifies all historical knowledge collectively known as Big History." An overwhelming amount of information in one location...this will take time to explore!
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Given we’ll shortly be reaching the centenary of the outbreak of World War One, we compiled this piece to explain the key global events of the...
Beth Dichter's insight:
If you teach history/social studies this post is right up your alley. The website MadeFromHistory has put together 30 infographics that look at 30 key events in the last 100 years, and they do acknowledge that the have "left out quite a few events" due to space limitations. You can also find sections that focus on World War I, World War II, and Civil Rights as well as a Referenced Blog, which shares a wide variety of topics. For many students, using visuals helps them to recall information more readily. If you teach history from the past 100 years it is worth checking out this website.
David Baker's curator insight,
July 29, 2014 12:04 PM
Visuals that include original source materials make classroom experiences much more relevant to students. It allows the story of the events to be made more real whether it is the experiences of WWI, WW II, or Civil Rights.
Anne-Maree Johnson's curator insight,
July 29, 2014 6:44 PM
valuable tool for teaching of history. A series of infographics, timelines and a referenced blog which give valuable visual insight into key events from the last century.
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Explore records of the National Archives documenting the ongoing struggle of Americans to define, attain, and protect their rights.
Beth Dichter's insight:
Are you looking for primary documents that explore the history of rights in America? The National Archives has a new website that provides resources on: * Equal rights * Rights to freedom and justice * Rights to privacy and sexuality * Workplace rights * First amendment rights * Rights of Native Americans Each area has a brief overview and provides a list of stories that are told through a detailed timeline with primary documents being utilized to tell the story. This interactive website is a great resource for teachers of history and social studies and may also be a resource for ELA teachers when reading books that relate to the areas covered.
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"We’ve only been in school one week, and our students have already been probing about the situation in Syria. It’s dominated their Twitter feeds and topped the news rundown on their carpool radios. We ended up scrapping our lesson on Friday to explore the facts of the Syrian conflict with the students on iPads."
Beth Dichter's insight:
How do we teach about issues like Syria? What can we do to help students understand the issues? ASIDE has created a post that provides visual information to help students understand this difficult issue. Resources include an animated video that looks at the history of this conflict which "is informative and age-appropriate...{offering} complete cultural timeline and an explanation of Bashar al-Assad's reactions to rebel resistance." In addition you will find a map that shows where Syrian refugees are located, an infographic from Al Jazeera that looks at which countries support or oppose military intervention, a graphic that explains different types of chemical weapons, resources from PBS and much more.
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If you were to ask your students when infographics were first created what do you think their answer would be? What would your answer be? This infographic looks at "a timeline of timelines and infographics" and the result may surprise your students. It would be a good to use as an introduction to infographics along with the one that was put out using Legos to answer the question "What is an infographic?" located at
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Beth Dichter's insight:
If you are looking for websites that provides video resources in the area of social studies check out this post. Richard Byrne provides a list of ten websites, stating "As a Social Studies teacher, I have used all but one of these sources in my classroom at least once and most of them I've used multiple times." The list includes: * Hip Hop Videos - "a series of short, upbeat lectures on topics in US History and World History." * PBS Video - high quality documentaries. * History for Music Lovers "is a great place to find music videos about dozens of topics in World History." Check out the post for an additional seven sites!
Kevin Fisher's curator insight,
January 26, 2015 7:44 PM
Has a list of 10 resource sites for students and teachers that include educational videos, interactive displays, documents, and documentaries related to social studies and the best part this is all free. This allows teachers, students, and parents to use these resources to get a better understanding about social studies. 
Nick Urban's curator insight,
July 16, 2015 3:12 PM
Here is presented a great set of online resources that link to pertinent videos used in social studies classrooms. I personally have used many of these sites in my teaching, but this list provides greater depth and explnation to the sites. Check out this post to find some of the best social studies videos sites that can be utilized in your digital classroom.
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Richard Byrne provides 13 resources for social studies in this post. Some have been mentioned previously in this Scoop.it and others are new. Each one includes a brief description and all are free. They include: * Museum Box - a virtual display of artifacts * Mission U.S. - 2 missions that explore different times in U.S. History * Hip Hughes History - a YouTube channel on both U.S. and World History (the image above is from this site) * The Google Cultural Institute (42 exhibitions online) * History Animated - "animated online tours of notable battles and strategies and the outcomes of each battle in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the American Civil War, and WWII" and more! Check out the post for additional resources.
Nick Urban's curator insight,
July 16, 2015 3:31 PM
This site offers terrific digital resources specific to the social studies classroom. It offers resources on a variety of social studies topics from world history to American history, and politics. One of the sites that I have used in my classroom is History Animated that allows users to see virtual battlefields and live the action that soldiers would have felt.
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From the first known school (in the year 2000 BC) to the Apple iPad and beyond, it's all in this interactive history of education timeline. IWhen you click on an event additional information is available. According to this post there are 85 entries on the timeline and the plan is to continue to update it. To go directly to the timeline, brought to you by edhistory.com go to http://edhistory.com/.
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Are you looking for open education resources geared to high school students? Check out this post. Links are provided for resources in science and math, comprehensive modular resources, grade-level collections, history, some higher education, as well as some free resources. Many of this have been mentioned at one point or another in this Scoop.it but there are some new ones!
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Do you remember the Queen's Coronation? The Kennedy assassination? Beatniks and hippies? The Miners' Strike and Greenham Common? The Great Storm and the Ash Cloud? Brought to life using audio performance and archive footage, 60 Years in 60 Poems travels through time to unpack our shared history, celebrating individual moments alongside national events.
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Who says that learning has to be lame? Take the boring out of those old Social Studies books add in cool stories, links, and videos, and you get Go Social Studies Go. Currently there are 6 sections: Global Religions, History (ancient, medieval, 19th & 20th century, colonial, American), World Geography, Choose Your Own Adventure (The Underground Railroad and Immigration with more to be added), History Legal Files (the Trial of Marie Antoinette with Brown vs Topeka Board of Ed. to be added soon), Cool Sites (a Scoop.it site by Go Social Studies Go), and Teacher Resources (a wikispaces site). It appears that additional information will be added. If you teach social studies check this site out, and share it with others!
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Search and find unique images, rights-managed and royalty-free images, historic imagery, archival photos from museums, galleries and private collectors from all over the world. Free licenses for educational use.
Simone O'Callaghan's curator insight,
May 22, 2015 11:03 AM
This follows on from discussions we have been having this week in oline teaching and learning about copyright and image usage, so a good resource for future lectures
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"Have you always wanted to visit a fictional coastal town, populated by rain boots? OK, me neither until now, but the animated children’s series Rainboot Cove definitely makes me wish I could spend some time there! Rainboot Cove is an educational website that uses video, games, and quizzes in fun and unusual ways to explore language, history, and community. The meaning of various words is explored in the stories told about the town, and history is explored by finding similarities between themes found locally, and events in the past."
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Mission US has just released a new mission: City of Immigrants. This game allows learners to learn about issues of immigrants ad they become Lena Brodsky, a 14 year old immigrant from Russia. During the game learners meet people in Lena's community, gaining a better understanding of the dynamics of immigrant communities. Throughout the game learners will need to make choices, which are not necessarily easy.
These games are geared to middle and high school learners. The other games found at Mission US are:
* For Crown or Colony (1770)
* Flight to Freedom (1848)
* A Cheyenne Odyssey (1866)
You will also find teaching materials on the website.