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Justin Reich and Allison Sikora are now friends

September 28

Justin Reich is now friends with Arpan Chokshi, Michael Wilkinson and Katharine Millet

September 23

Chuck Taft replied to Justin Reich's discussion 'Help decide technology standards for NCSS Conference!'

How about - Sessions in which technology can be utilized by participants during the session should be somehow identified. Last year I presents with a colleague, and we hoped that participants would follow along on a back channel chat to post ques...

September 17

Justin Reich commented on Thomas Daccord's group 'Teaching World History K-12'

Hi Kerry, My experience with research is that a critical difference from other class activities is that the possibility of failure and difficulty is much higher than with other kinds of tasks. Ask kids to memorize ten dates, and they know about h...

September 15

Justin Reich joined William Johnston's group

Harvard Social Studies Methods (T213)

Welcome! This group intended to be a forum for Education T213: Teaching History, Political Science/Political Philosophy, and/or Social Studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. All are welcome to read and contribute to this page.

August 31

Justin Reich and William Johnston are now friends

August 31

Justin Reich commented on Thomas Daccord's group 'Teaching World History K-12'

Check out Promises.... http://www.promisesproject.org/ It's about kids, so it's great for showing with young people.

August 21

Justin Reich joined Thomas Daccord's group

Teaching U.S. History K-12

A group for teachers of United States history K-12.

August 11

Justin Reich commented on John Lee's blog post 'Literacy and global awareness: Tracking Iranian election protests'

Wow! This is an incredible resource John. Thanks for sharing!

August 10

Michael Hutchison commented on Justin Reich's blog post 'Op-ed on Filters in the Washington Post'

Hi, Justin, I agree. Fortunately in my situation, I have a very pro-active principal, and he's gone to bat for me on multiple occasions, whether it's to get more technology in my classroom or working with our IT department to get "objectionable" ...

July 15

Justin Reich commented on Thomas Daccord's group 'Teaching World History K-12'

Nick, I don't really have a good summary map (frankly the article is the best summary). Here's a very detailed document with lots of our lesson plans, homework assignments, final projects, and so forth. if you have questions, fire away. HHCCNI Cu...

July 15

Justin Reich commented on Justin Reich's blog post 'Op-ed on Filters in the Washington Post'

Michael, I can tell you, you are not alone :) Most of the mail I've gotten back has been of the "amen" and "here's my story" nature. As far as I can tell, the best filtering scenarios are ones where there is active and local control. Your scenario...

July 15

Michael Hutchison commented on Justin Reich's blog post 'Op-ed on Filters in the Washington Post'

Justin, I read your op-ed piece with a great deal of interest, and even greater agreement. I have yet to find a filtering solution that gives me (as the teacher and the adult) the academic freedom and ability I need to find and use legitimate sit...

July 14

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Op-ed on Filters in the Washington Post

Here's an op-ed I wrote that about the effect of classroom filters on teaching for the Washington Post. Enjoy, debate, etc.: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/10/AR2009071003459.html?nav=hcmoduletmv

July 13

Justin Reich commented on Thomas Daccord's group 'Teaching World History K-12'

Hi All, I wrote an article a few years ago about a problem-based curriculum that I designed for a freshman world history class. We were not restricted by a standards based testing regime, so it would need a little adaptation for those environments...

July 2

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Teaching World History K-12

A group for teachers of World History K-12.

July 2

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Op-ed on Filters in the Washington Post

Here's an op-ed I wrote that about the effect of classroom filters on teaching for the Washington Post. Enjoy, debate, etc.:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/10/AR2009071003459.html?nav=hcmoduletmv

Posted on July 13, 2009 at 11:28am — 3 Comments

More from the Ackerman Conference

More good ideas being shared today.

Michael Berson and Kerry Poole showed off Legislative Aide, a simulation that puts students in the role of a congressional intern, and combines real world interviews and research with an online simulation and social network. It's being piloted in Florida. Check it out here: http://ckbsoftware.com/

Joe O'Brian gave a very energetic talk about considering the implications of the commercialization of the Web for civic society. His paper is well worth reading,… Continue

Posted on June 20, 2009 at 3:42pm —

More resources for social studies teachers from Ackerman

Meghan Manfra shared a digital history inquiry project in a low-track high school history classroom: http://digitalhistory.edublogs.org/.

Tim Newby and Peg Ertmer showed a wiki created by their students with chapters about different Web 2.0 tools. A terrific resource for people exploring Web 2.0 tools: http://wiki.itap.purdue.edu/display/Social/INSITE+Main.

Posted on June 19, 2009 at 11:21am —

The Ackerman Civics 2. 0 Conference

About 25 social studies researchers are gathered at Purdue this weekend for the Ackerman Colloquium on Technology and Civics Education to discuss Civics 2.0- the role of new social media in civics and citizenship education. .

Our opening Keynote was delivered by Anne Collier an expert in youth online safety, who runs Net Family News, Connect Safely. Anne currently serves as co-chair of the Obama administrati… Continue

Posted on June 19, 2009 at 10:04am —