Actually our reading a book-getting Activities could greatly enhance history teaching. The nice thing about History is that there are a lot of good original sources in the public domain, free to download. The students can read the writings of Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, etc. They are not limited to the school board approved boring junk that is a typical History textbook. They can read stuff written when the events happened.
The materials available are not limited to the history of the United States, but of course U.S. History is very well represented. There is no reason U.S. children need to take Glenn Beck seriously when they could read this gem by Thomas Paine: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3743/3743-h/3743-h.htm#2HCH0001 James Simmons On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Nicholas Doiron <[email protected]> wrote: > This interview in the Wall Street Journal discusses history education and > a couple of interesting, interactive lessons which could be programmed. We > don't have many history activities in Sugar > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304432304576369421525987128.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_opinion > > -- > Nick Doiron > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
