Today is Tuesday, November 15th, 2011. Some teensters have finished their memoirs. Some teensters have finished their memoirs, but would like to put the "cherry on top" by adding detail or just a little extra. Some teensters are still only half way to being complete with their memoir. We are all over the board and you know what...? That's OK: as long as you are engaged. By engaged I mean thinking and doing.
Today, some of you will be moving on to explore our next Unit of Inquiry: Exploration and Colonization. Before we dive in and muck around together we have to make sure we've done a couple things:
1. Completed our memoirs
2. Submitted our memoirs
3. Thought about our next steps
If you are on path 3 come see me to continue your adventure. I read some text last night that really impacted how we as a learning community could move forward since we are leaving the Holocaust behind. I thought about our online textbook as I read these words: Textbooks keep students in the dark about the nature of history. History is furious debate informed by evidence and reason. Textbooks encourage students to believe that history is facts to be learned. (Loewen, 2007, 5, 8) After reading a line like that I had a few questions. How could we use our textbooks differently? They still do serve a purpose, so what could that purpose be? Textbooks are a great learning tool, but they are not the end-all-be-all, so how do we know what to keep and what to toss? What is HISTORICAL THINKING?
Your learning target for the day is as follows: I can interact and collaborate with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media. Please make sure you know where you are in the process, and are learning accordingly.
Sincerely,
C
From the cluttered mind of C, Teacher
School District of Waukesha
Waukesha STEM Academy
4 comments:
I think that historical thinking is when you put yoursef in someone elses place in a different time place... Like in our digital memoir how we are telling it in a different persona/perspective. :)
heyy Mr. C :) i think that historical thinking is when you put yourself in someone elses shoese and you put yourself in a whole new time frame. Going back to our digital memoirs it's somewhat similiar like our experience from a moment in the past. . .
im not really sure what you mean when you said that textbooks keep students in the dark about the NATURE on history. a guess i have is that you mean that we dont understand where history comes from or how it comes to be, but im not really sure.
Historical Thinking is kind of like thinking in the past or thinking about the past. Right?
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