Why Learn History When Its Already on Your Phone
Why Learn History When Its Already on Your Phone Let's start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clich s: We are surrounded by more readily available information…
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Why Learn History When Its Already on Your Phone
Let's start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clich s: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate.
All of it is pernicious.With the internet always at our fingertips, what's a teacher of history to do? Some of it is deliberately deceptive. Sam Wineburg has answers, beginning with this: We definitely can't stick to the same old read-the-chapter-answer-the-questions-at-the-back snoozefest we've subjected students to for decades.
If we want to educate citizens who can sift through the mass of information around them and separate fact from fake, we have to explicitly work to give them the necessary critical thinking tools. Historical thinking, Wineburg shows us in Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your