Why learn history (when it's already on your phone)

Why learn history (when it's already on your phone)

by Wineburg, Samuel S.

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"Let's start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious. With the internet at our fingertips, what's a teacher of history to do? Sam Wineburg has answers, beginning with this: We can't stick to the same old read-the-chapter-answer-…

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  • Full title :Why learn history (when it's already on your phone) / Sam Wineburg.

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"Let's start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious. With the internet at our fingertips, what's a teacher of history to do? Sam Wineburg has answers, beginning with this: We can't stick to the same old read-the-chapter-answer-the-questions snoozefest. If we want to educate citizens who can separate fact from fake, we have to equip them with new tools. Historical thinking, Wineburg shows, has nothing to do with the ability to memorize facts. Instead, it's an orientation to the world that cultivates reasoned skepticism and counters our tendency to confirm our biases. Wineburg lays out a mine-filled landscape, but one that with care, attention, and awareness, we can all learn to navigate. The future of the past may rest on our screens. But its fate rests in our hands."--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2018

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The Physical Object

  • Description:241 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780226357188, 022635718X, 9780226357218, 022635721X
  • oclc:on1022792253
  • LC Classification:E175.8
  • Dewey Decimal:973.007

Table of Contents

Part 1: Our current plight. Crazy for history ; Obituary for a billion dollars ; Committing Zinns -- Part 2: Historical thinking/=an amazing memory. Turning Bloom's taxonomy on its head ; What did George think? -- Part 3: Thinking historically in a digital age. Changing history ... one classroom at a time ; Why Google can't save us -- Part 4: Conclusion: Historical hope. "Famous Americans" : the changing pantheon of American heroes.

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Subjects

15.02 philosophy and theory of history Education History HISTORY -- General. -- United States Internet en éducation -- États-Unis Internet in education Internet in education -- United States United States United States -- History

Writers

Wineburg, Samuel S.

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