History Tech

Yep, there is nothing better than a good history museum with all their interactive displays, interesting artifacts, and knowledgeable docents. Done well, a museum visit is not just a good time but can be an incredible learning experience.

More and more school districts are struggling to fund off-site field trips to history museums. Subs, entrance fees, fuel costs all add to make it difficult to get kids from schools into places like the Kansas History Museum. And so many museums,  have been forced to develop a variety of tools that attempt to replicate actual visits.

Museum and Education Director Mary Madden and her staff at the Kansas Museum of History have came up with ways to replicate actual visits. Their Traveling Trunks are very cool. The Read Kansas cards are a great example of practical and aligned lesson plans that focus on literacy and social studies. Using a DoubleRobotics iPad robot, a free online app, and internet technology, classes are able to “visit” the museum virtually.

Join Glenn to hear more on ways you can get your students to a museum near you.

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What’s holding you back from offering your amazing lessons online 24/7 for student access? Maybe you don’t have time to learn a new software platform or school finances don’t allow the purchase of Blackboard, Canvas or Edmodo. Join Glenn as he shares a tool called CoursePress that is both simple and free. Now why are you waiting?

Course Press

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http://www.theedublogger.com/2014/12/03/introducing-coursepress-easy-to-create-online-classes/

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Every social studies teacher knows that students are able to get a better sense of the historical period they are studying if they have images (photographs, maps, etc.) to view. Their understanding and historical thinking skills are further enhanced if we provide them with strategies to use as they analyze and interpret those primary sources. Join Glenn as he discusses the quadrant process and visual discrepant event inquiry as two ways to help students get the most out of their resources.

Glenn’s Tip of the Week – Visual Discrepant Event Inquiry

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Even if you aren’t a certified Googlephile like Glenn, you may still get excited about the resources available to you through Google Books.  Join Glenn as he shares some of the magazines that are now available online for use as primary source documents through this free site. It might even make you want to apply for a Google Internship!

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=IE8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&rview=1&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://books.google.com/books/magazines/language/en?

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Have you packed away all your lesson plans that integrate art, music, and literature into your history instruction so you can focus on your College and Career Ready classroom? Before you do that, take a minute to consider the idea that we don’t have to choose an either/or approach. Join Glenn as he explains how liberal arts are as important for us today as they were for the ancient Greeks and Romans who sought to develop an informed public with virtuous, knowledgeable, and articulate people.

In Defense Of A Liberal Education

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We may not know exactly what the Muti-Disciplinary Performance Tasks will look like in 2016, but we do know that this latest iteration of state assessments will ask students to make sense of information that is provided to them.  They will be asked to solve problems, analyze information, and draw conclusions from the evidence that is presented.  That sounds a lot like Document Based Questions (DBQ).  Join Glenn as he shares information about the upcoming changes to Kansas State Assessments and resources to DBQs that will prepare students for these changes and improve classroom instruction.

DBQs:

* Making DBQs Work in Middle School

* Five Step Process for Creating a DBQ

* DBQ Writing Process

* Samples and Resources

* DBQ Samples

* Even More DBQ Samples

General resources:

* Social Studies Central – Primary Sources / DBQ Tools

* Social Studies Central – Using Primary Sources in the Classroom

* Standards and the Common Core in the Social Studies Classroom

Instructional Ideas:

* How to Teach Summarizing

* Teaching with Documents and DBQs Without the Dull Factor

* Using Primary Sources to Spark Student Interest

* Primary Sources: 3 Places to Get Them and 10 Classroom Activities You’ll Love

* The Student as Historian

* DocsTeach

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Deb Brown, Social Studies Consultant extraordinaire, from Shawnee Mission – a large district near Kansas City. Because we’re presenting as part of the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program, most of them obviously lead back to the Library’s stuff.

* Analysis Worksheet

* American Memory

* Education Page

* Teacher Resources

* America’s Library

* Kindergarten example / video

We also looked at a few online tools, including Padlet:

* Child Labor

* Immigration

For creating final products, Deb shared a mobile app called Our Story. Perfect for younger kids. Another option is an app called Adobe Voice.

Dropbox link Glenn mentioned in the podcast.

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Civil rights leaders Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, Fred Korematsu, and Cesar Chavez are no longer with us, but their message lives on through the voices of their descendants, Kenneth Morris, Karen Korematsu, and Anthony Chavez.  Join Glenn as he shares their stories and educational resources presented at the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) national conference in Boston, November 2014.

 

* Frederick Douglas Family Initiatives

“It’s easier to build strong children than repair broken adults.”

* Fred Korematsu Institute

 Much later in life, my father told me “I can’t do this anymore. It’s up to you now to share this story.”

* Cesar Chavez Foundation

“We don’t need a perfect political system. We need perfect participation.”

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You might answer the above question with a confident “Yes” if you have a classroom blog, participate in Twitter chats, and regularly bring augmented reality into your classroom.  However, you might be missing some basics that will enhance your classroom and make your life easier if you’ve never created an Appsmash or used an IFTTT recipe.  Join Glenn as he shares the 21 Things Every 21st Century Teacher Should Do This Year along with some specific tools for social studies teachers that will make you truly tech savvy.

 

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Glenn is always on the lookout for new resources that enhance the student educational experience or make life easier for teachers.  His latest discovery, Listen Current, achieves both of those goals.  Join Glenn as he shares some of the features available on the website that will help students improve communication skills and make connections to contemporary events.

Listen Current

lesson plans

 

Socrative

cool StudySync tool

Listen Current mailing list

their blog

 

 

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