Why learn history (when it's already on your phone)
Samuel S. Wineburg (Author)
Wineburg has become the go-to guy for helping people, both teachers and administrators, think about how to teach kids history. This book is an accessible account of how we've tried to do it, why and how we've failed, and how we could do better.
History
1 online resource (240 pages)
9780226357355, 022635735X
1079319710
Our current plight
Crazy for history
Obituary for a billion dollars
Committing Zinns
Historical thinking?: an amazing memory
Turning Bloom's taxonomy on its head
What did George think?
Thinking historically in a digital age
Changing history ... one classroom at a time
Why Google can't save us
Conclusion: historical hope
"Famous Americans": the changing pantheon of American heroes