Nicholas Kapetanis's List: Digital Language Arts

• Seeking to coordinate military efforts, the Continental Congress established (on paper) a regular army in June 1775, and appointed George Washington as commander-in-chief
• • The Hessian were hired merchants of war that the
• various state militias.^[3] At the end of the American Revolution in 1783, both the Continental Navy and Continental Marines were disbanded.

  • the navy played an important role in winning the war for President Washington.

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• When students use the comparison feature they begin to construct new knowledge.
• To rank an item, a student must establish and apply criteria, apply a value to each item based on the criteria, and justify that placement with a comment.

• He asks ninth-grade students to list important artifacts from the past, compiles students' responses on a big poster, and compares the responses. Throughout the year, as they gain new knowledge and their thinking grows more sophisticated, students return to the list. They articulate and discuss what constitutes historical significance that underlies the order of the list, and revise and elaborate on the rules for determining historical significance. By ordering artifacts by their historical significance and discussing the underlying rules, students go beyond memorizing facts and dates of historical events. They develop a deep understanding of the interpretive nature of history, which is one of the fundamental principles of the discipline.

  • A class room example given of using an ordered list by Intel education is of a history teacher who at the begining of the year asks his students to order historical artifacts by their importance in history. Doing so goes beyond memorization of facts and allows students to gain a greater understanding of history.