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19 May 2013

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Will the real person stand up? the 14th amendment as it applies to corporate America. A bit of a (possibly controversial) take on corporate personhood,…

19 May 2013

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19 May 2013

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19 May 2013

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18 May 2013

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18 May 2013

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Measly Middle Ages – Buying indulgences spoof (forgiveness of sins)From: mrallsopViews: 00 ratingsTime: 01:35 More in Education

18 May 2013

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18 May 2013

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18 May 2013

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18 May 2013

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18 May 2013

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A new rifle uses lasers make it incredibly accurate.  Every shot is recorded and can be posted using WiFi to Facebook or YouTube.  Listen to this story to learn more about the gun and the debate it’s raising about the …

18 May 2013

canoncitydailyrecord.com

When community activist Greg Rasheed first heard about tiny libraries popping up in front yards across America, he wanted to spark the trend in Denver.

18 May 2013

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18 May 2013

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I read an article last fall that compared our current education reform movement with Stalinist education policy. (A reader told me that the link didn’t work.  Another reader sent me a different lin…

18 May 2013

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18 May 2013

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Your first ever EdCafe unconference-style learning experience is next week! Exciting! To remind and to clarify expectations… your written narrative is due, shared with me in Google Docs by the beginning […] Comments: 0

18 May 2013

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18 May 2013

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18 May 2013

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18 May 2013

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18 May 2013

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18 May 2013

thinkfinity.org

Welcome to the Verizon Thinkfinity Community! This page is a great place to start: ask questions, join in a discussion, search groups, and make friends.

18 May 2013

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Perhaps the most popular idea to come out of my Signposting Progress work at Berkhamsted School’s Teaching, Learning and Assessment Conference was the ‘Tweet My Lesson’ idea. Inspired by Historical…

18 May 2013

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17 May 2013

blogs.loc.gov - Stephen Wesson

A child labor reform exhibit panel with photographs by Lewis Hine When you hear the word “multimedia”, what do you think of? A video presentation on an interactive whiteboard? A mashup on YouTube? Common Core State Standards and many other standards require that students compare informational texts in different media. However, multimedia texts aren’t limited to the 21st century. In fact, one of the most compelling multimedia campaigns in U.S. history was launched more than one hundred years ago,  »

17 May 2013

slate.com

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Jodi Kantor, New York Times correspondent, Author of The Obamas I’m a reporter at the New York Times, I write about and often interview powerful people for a living, and I strongly believe the answer is: There is no one question that…

17 May 2013

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17 May 2013

boardworks.co.uk

Boardworks publishes a complete range of software for whole class teaching on interactive whiteboards and projectors. Offering complete curriculum coverage at secondary and primary, Boardworks resources bring lessons to life.

16 May 2013

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16 May 2013

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THIS IS…an episode about Sparta! (and there are no 300 references in here too. Well, one, but it’s about facial hair!) People just looove Sparta. Tough…

16 May 2013

gettysburgbythenumbers.com

Gettysburg by the Numbers invites you to move beyond dates and facts to questions that make the battle more meaningful and real. Designed for middle school learners and up, Gettysburg by the Numbers lets students go far beyond the typical textbook facts and captions, connecting to history through the numbers and questions – moving history beyond telling to connecting.

16 May 2013

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I was inspired to write this blog from the reaction towards a tweet I posted during a #ukedchat on effective ways to start lessons yesterday evening. The tweet I posted was – Giving students anagra…

16 May 2013

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16 May 2013

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16 May 2013

independent.co.uk

One shiny hand clenched into a fist, the other with its fingers rested gently on his thigh, an eerie half-light beams out from the glass coffin of the father of Bolshevism. His head is raised slightly and rests on a soft black pillow, the waxy hairs of his short ginger beard are coiffed into a sharp point, and his body is dressed in a suit and navy tie with white polka dots.

16 May 2013

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16 May 2013

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16 May 2013

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Created by Mike Gershon, I found this resource a couple of years ago and was immediately taken with it. Full of great ideas for starters and plenaries that need little preparation and have a high i…

16 May 2013

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After becoming a concubine for Emperor Xianfeng at the age of 16, Cixi rose to power when he died and her young son inherited the throne. She governed…

16 May 2013

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16 May 2013

brisbanetimes.com.au

Historians across Australia buried their faces in their palms again this week when, without warning, retro talk of ”history wars” was revived. It was like being drawn back into 2001, when John Howard was prime minister, George Bush was US president and Vanilla Ice was in jail.

16 May 2013

localschoolsnetwork.org.uk - Janet Downs

Today’s young people are uninformed about history – that’s what Education Secretary, Michael Gove, says. In a Mail article, he cited “survey after survey” which displayed “disturbing historical ignorance” among teenagers. But the Department of Education (DfE) could only find one survey when asked*. That survey, by TV Gold, turned out to be targeting all ages not just teenagers. And the survey’s questions contained inaccuracies. Gove’s “survey after survey” implies more than one. So the DfE has …  »

16 May 2013

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The winners of this year’s Wolfson History Prize, Christopher Duggan and Susan Brigden, join Rob Attar for a discussion about their books and the…

16 May 2013

youblisher.com

Unit 1 CCEA GCSE History. Produced by Damien McHugh, Holy Cross College, Strabane, Co Tyrone, N.Ireland.

15 May 2013

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15 May 2013

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15 May 2013

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15 May 2013

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John Cooper Clarke, poetry’s Punk Laureate and the Bard of Salford, nominates Salvador Dali for great life status – melting clocks, Mae West lip sofas,…

15 May 2013

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THE FUTURE OF THE PAST AT THE BBC – Wednesday May 15th from 5pm to 7pm & the hashtag for the event will be #bbcpast THE EVENT IS ORGANIZED BY THE PUBLIC & POPULAR HISTORY SEMINAR, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE All …

15 May 2013

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BELIZE CITY – A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers…

15 May 2013

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How students in Poland tried to force changes on the communist authorities, but were met with arrests and repression.

15 May 2013

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14 May 2013

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14 May 2013

activehistory.co.uk

What Caused the American Civil War? – History games, revision quizzes and worksheets for KS3, GCSE and A-Level school children!

14 May 2013

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14 May 2013

scoop.it - Aki Puustinen

History is relevant, exciting and – thanks to your iPad or iPhone – more accessible than ever. See it on Scoop.it, via Leadership Think Tank

14 May 2013

scoop.it - Kristen McDaniel

entry page for online image gallery (RT @JaneHamlett: Snapshots of Institutional Life – gallery from the ESRC At Home in the Institution Project http://t.co/D8dKK1sWsr)… Kristen McDaniel’s insight: These galleries were assembled by Jane Hamlett, Lesley Hoskins and Rebecca Preston at Royal Holloway University of London, and are part of the Economic and Social Research Council funded project At Home in the Institution? Asylum, School and Lodging House Interiors in London and South East England,  »

14 May 2013

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14 May 2013

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14 May 2013

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Russel Tarr accuses education secretary of a lack of interpretation ‘that would make GCSE student blush with shame’

14 May 2013

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14 May 2013

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14 May 2013

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14 May 2013

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14 May 2013

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14 May 2013

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14 May 2013

seomraranga.com - admin

The Century Ireland project is an online historical newspaper that tells the story of the events of Irish life a century ago. Century Ireland is published on a fortnightly basis, beginning in May 2013, and is the main online portal for the Irish decade of commemorations, 1912-23. News reporting on life in Ireland 100 years ago is supported by a wealth of visual, archival and contextual material to facilitate an understanding of the complexities of Irish life in the years between 1912 and 1923. …  »

14 May 2013

guardian.co.uk - James Ball

Freedom of information request reveals use of PR-commissioned opinion polls and lack of concrete research The education secretary, Michael Gove, has come under fire for citing PR-commissioned opinion polls as evidence of teenagers’ ignorance of important historical events. Gove’s department has admitted he cited polls originating from Premier Inn and UKTV Gold press releases, prompting the Labour MP and historian Tristram Hunt to label him "Mr Sloppy". In a Mail on Sunday article published in M…  »

13 May 2013

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13 May 2013

whatdotheyknow.com

Request to Department for Education by J Downs. Annotated by J Downs on 9 May 2013. Successful. I have written in more detail about the DfE’s reply on the Local Schools Network: http://www.localschoolsnetwork.org.uk/2013/05/dfe-digs-up-more-sur…

13 May 2013

io9.com - Vincze Miklós

Before we understood that radiation exposure can be deadly, people thought it was just a fun ingredient to make things glow. Here are some of the amazing, disturbing products from those simpler times. None of these would be deemed even remotely safe today. Doramad Toothpaste Produced from 1940 to 1945 in Germany by Auergesellschaft of Berlin. It contained small amounts of thorium, but its radioactivity level was really low. (via Brakhman and Sad And Useless) Tho-Radia products in the 1930s …  »

13 May 2013

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13 May 2013

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How would Asquith, Pankhurst, Blathwayt and Fawcett view Theresa Garnett take a swipe at Winston Churchill? Download

13 May 2013

activehistory.co.uk

ActiveHistory replies to Gove’s accusation of ‘infantilisation’ – History games, revision quizzes and worksheets for KS3, GCSE and A-Level school children!

13 May 2013

andallthatweb.wordpress.com - apf102

Had a very enjoyable lecture from Marc Morris at the HA Conference 2013. On the back of this, these two lessons look at the impact of the Norman Conquest on England: http://www.andallthat.co.uk/medieval-world.html How far did the Normans build a new England? (KS3) In this lesson students are asked to compare the architecture of Norman and Anglo-Saxon England and come to a conclusion about the nature, pace and extent of change brought to England by the Norman Conquest of 1066. Tackles issues of …  »

13 May 2013

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School funding that helps England’s most disadvantaged school pupils should be protected from cuts, the education secretary says.

12 May 2013

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12 May 2013

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A PowerPoint presentation on the Wall Street Crash for GCSE students. Hope you find this useful. Wall Street Crash

12 May 2013

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This PowerPoint presentation on the Treaty of Versailles is something I have used with my Year 9 and Year 10 groups. Hope you find this useful. Treaty of Versailles

12 May 2013

andallthat.co.uk

The following are a series of stand-alone lessons planned for specific topics. Unlike the other resources on the site, these do not rely on specific textbooks and do not necessarily form part of a…

12 May 2013

thedailybeast.com

Days after Hitler’s suicide a group of American soldiers, French prisoners, and, yes, German soldiers defended an Austrian castle against an SS division—the only time Germans and Allies fought together in World War II. Andrew Roberts on a story so wild that it has to be made into a movie.

12 May 2013

kenradical.wordpress.com - kenradical

I’d noticed a lot of people on twitter using the hashtag #poundlandpegagogy recently and enjoyed reading their tweets about using pound shop items creatively in class to improve learning outcomes. I wanted to give it a go myself, so armed with a few quid I headed to Wilko (it’s next door to my flat and the pound shop is a long way off!) and bought a lot of play paper. Play paper is that incredibly thin, cheap paper that comes on a massive roll that you give toddlers to scribble all over. You can  »

12 May 2013

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12 May 2013

historytoday.com

It was Eichmann who inspired Hannah Arendt’s phrase ‘the banality of evil’. A career civil servant in Nazi Germany, he was put in charge of administering the ‘Final Solution’ and organised the seiz

12 May 2013

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What was the Most Important Turning Point of WW2? (KS3/4) In this lesson students are given 2 interpretations of key turning points in WW2. They are then asked to evaluate an interpretation by finding evidence which either supports or disproves it. Finally students consider the provenance of each interpretation before reaching a conclusion on the most important turning point Resources for this lesson and more at: http://www.andallthat.co.uk/modern-world.html

12 May 2013

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12 May 2013

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At the moment Year 8 are studying “How great was Great Britain in the nineteenth century?” I needed a simple Home Learning to go with the scheme of work and over the last few years had seen a lot of people who’d set their students the task of picking a history hero. I’ve always liked this idea and decided I would make it 19th century heroes to go with the scheme but wanted to make it a bit more interesting. Now I have no clue where exactly my inspiration came from, but I swear I’d seen an advert  »

12 May 2013

dailymail.co.uk

The photographs of the Romanovs include Nicholas II teaching his daughter, Grand Duchess Anastasia, to smoke and his heir Alexei in naval regalia.

12 May 2013

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12 May 2013

independent.co.uk

Mr Gove’s latest attempt to discredit history teachers (report, 10 May) involves the creation of yet another straw man: first there was the history teacher who was “anti-knowledge” and now the “Mr Men”, or “Eddy the Teddy” history curriculum.

11 May 2013

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11 May 2013

politics.co.uk

Education secretary Michael Gove has launched a scathing attack on teachers’ enthusiasm for providing pupils with ‘relevant’ material, as he prepares for a major overhaul of the national curriculum. Read it in full here.

11 May 2013

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11 May 2013

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11 May 2013

historyfeed.org

History Feed aggregates information from the Twitter and RSS universe to create a single location for those interested in history and the profession.

11 May 2013

guardian.co.uk

Students will research, write and edit an A3-sized newspaper front page, working in pairs. They will access a range of primary and secondary sources focusing on race relations and the fight for civil

11 May 2013

scoop.it - Kristen McDaniel

On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down Jeffrey Miller, Allison Krause, William Knox Schroeder, and Sandra Scheuer during an anti-war protest at Kent State University. Kristen McDaniel’s insight: Photos like this that juxtapose the original photograph to present day surroundings always grab me. What an interesting discussion this could be in a history classroom! See it on Scoop.it, via Social Studies Education

11 May 2013

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11 May 2013

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11 May 2013