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"University of Wisconsin Professor Diana Hess has published Controversy in the Classroom: The Democratic Power of Discussion (Routledge, 2009). The longitudinal study of high school students that is a major source of data for this book was partly funded by CIRCLE. Hess argues that planned, moderated discussions of controversial issues teach essential democratic skills. She provides research-based advice about how to define “controversial issues” and handle them in classrooms."

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NonFictionVideos - online and iPhone-ready documentaries

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With your free account from ChartGizmo you can now create charts for your website, blog and social network profiles.

ChartGizmo may be useful for those who need to visualize financial, scientific or other type of data.

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Could it be that American achievements reflect the past more than predicting the future?

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Each film in the 'Famous Moments' series highlights a true story of historical significance, providing 'students' of early America with a better understanding of the people, places and events of this important era.

Of added interest for viewers, each film tells its story using scenes and portraits from the Early American Digital Library. Many of the images are primary source documents — engravings, woodcuts and drawings that date back to the early to mid-1800s.

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The site integrates the full text of the plays and poems with the entire Glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare's works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can pose a difficulty to the modern reader.

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It appears that Google Scholar is not yet part of the Google Alerts application. However, you can create your own alert using two free, simple to use online tools.

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A number of organizations have made studying and understanding young people’s engagement with digital media a full time endeavor. One outfit studying young people’s use of digital media is Ypulse, a youth insights group operating in San Francisco and New York. In this interview Ypulse discusses, among other things, how youth culture and lifestyles have changed; the evolving role of games in our lives; a wired classroom for third graders; and kids, social media, and privacy.

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Multiple Intelligence Inventory Test -- It will help you know which technological tools each of them can benefit from the most, as well as give you ideas about different activities you should incorporate into your curriculum to reach ALL of your students. Below are a few tools that may help you to deliver content to each of these types of learners.

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Schools Dump Textbooks for iPods, Laptops
Teachers Say Students Learn Better From the Devices, Even Eultitasking

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7 Things You Should Know About Google Wave -- PDF

Google Wave is a web-based application that represents a rethinking of electronic communication. Users create online spaces called “waves,” which include multiple discrete messages and components that constitute a running, conversational document. Users access waves through the web, resulting in a model of communication in which rather than sending separate copies of multiple messages to different people, the content resides in a single space.

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Classical Antiquity - extended list of links to Classical online resources.

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Recommendation: Integrate digital and media literacy as critical elements of education at all levels through collaboration among federal, state, and local education officials.

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The US government has numerous websites relevant to foreign and security policy. A list of the most useful. . .

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Free blank (outline) maps from The American Nation companion website

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A compilation of free Educational Video Clips/Mini Movies on multiple topics. A collaboration between Don Donn and Philip Martin.

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Via via activehistory.co.uk, this taxonomy of Socratic questions is not a hierarchy but rather categories build upon each other and do not necessarily follow a pattern or design. The role of the educator is to keep the inquiry "on track," but, also, to allow the students to follow a path of their own design.

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Create your own newspaper with MeeHive. List the topics and issues you're passionate about, and MeeHive will scour thousands of news outlets and blogs to find stories about your interests. You can share articles with others, see what friends read, and even use your iPhone to get MeeHive on-the-go.

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The GOP-controlled State Board of Education is working on a new set of statewide textbook standards for, among other subjects, U.S. History Studies Since Reconstruction.

Approved textbooks, the draft standards say, must teach the Texan student to "identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly, and the Moral Majority." No analogous liberal figures or groups are required

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