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Rena Shifflet's Public Library

12 Dec 09

WatchKnow - Category - Social Studies

Videos geared towards students on various elements/topics in social studies

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SocialStudies Video c+1_258 C&I258 geography history

Online Geography gaming

Games and simulations for use in the geography classroom

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geography

Country Guides to Culture, Etiquette, Customs & more!

a community built guide to crsoo-cultural etiquette and understanding

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The Miniature Earth

a slideshow that uses statistics to reduce the world to 100 inhabitants, and shows how that plays out demographically, who uses what resources, etc. They periodically update the statistics.

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SocialStudies Video C&I258 c+1_258

04 Dec 09

Student-centred learning: What does it mean for students and lecturers?

  • where the key decisions about learning are made by the student through negotiation with the teacher.
  • In summary, it appears from the literature that some view student-centred learning as: the concept of the student’s choice in their education; others see it as the being about the student doing more than the lecturer (active versus passive learning); while others have a much broader definition which includes both of these concepts but, in addition, describes the shift in the power relationship between the student and the teacher.
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03 Dec 09

Census in Schools

  • The 2010 Census — a count of everyone living in the United States —

socstudiestech - Some Basics

  • Ever sit down to a computer and realize your bookmarks are on some other computer.
  • What is Social Bookmarking
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Zinn Education Project - Explore by Theme

Access to articles from Rethinking schools and Howard Zinn

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SocialJustice C&I258 c+1_258

  • Empathy, or “social imagination,” allows students to connect to “the other” with whom, on the surface, they may appear to have little in common.
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