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21 Aug 09
Visible Thinking
At the core of Visible Thinking are practices that help make thinking visible: Thinking Routines loosely guide learners' thought processes and encourage active processing. They are short, easy-to-learn mini-strategies that extend and deepen students' thinking and become part of the fabric of everyday classroom life.
20 Aug 09
What is moe? | Mantle of the Expert.com
Ask students to imagine becoming scientists in a laboratory or archaeologists excavating a tomb, or a rescue team at the scene of a disaster. They might be running a removal company, or a factory, or a shop, or a space station or a French resistance group.
Because they behave ‘as if they are experts’, the children are working from a specific point of view as they explore their learning and this brings special responsibilities, language needs and social behaviours.
19 Aug 09
OurStory.com - Capture your stories, save them permanently.
Create interactive timelines collaboratively. I could see using this for documenting causation, how one event leads to another.
You can add a timeline to any blog or Web page.
ARC Guide for Educators and Students
ARC Guide for Educators and Students
The guide introduces educators and students to the National Archives' Archival Research Catalog (ARC). Searching in ARC to learn more about National Archives' historical documents could enrich a classroom activity, a homework assignment, or a research project. - Methodology I might follow with 8th graders who may serve as research experts to younger kids.
NYPL Digital Gallery | Home
NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress)
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
Flickr: The Library of Congress' Photostream
I wondered if there was easy access to raw info and here it is! Cool sets like Illustrated Newspapers, Women Striving, News in the 1910s, etc.
History Detectives . Detective Techniques . Overview | PBS
A great brief on detective techniques - makes examining history a dynamic enterprise!
05 Aug 09
reinventingpbl / Library of Congress Ad Hoc PLC
A group of educators interested in taking advantage of the richness of primary sources for teaching and learning is working together in this workspace.
03 Aug 09
Alberta Education Online Teaching Resource for Social Studies
Alberta schools use the Critical Thinking Consortium's tools for guiding inquiry. I looked into the one about investigating pictures.
Critical Thinking Wheel
Pretty good bibliography on critical thinking
30 Jul 09
Middle School teachers put their (video)game face on | Inside CU | University of Colorado at Boulder
Alex Repenning, Agent Sheets, Scalable Game Design, Summer Institute
Funded by NSF
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