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Readings and Materials for ECI 525 Fall 2009
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August 24 on Teaching and Learning Social Studies in the 21st century
Opener – from NewLit.org blog http://newlitcollaborative.ning.com/profiles/blogs/james-madison-and-the-problem
Videos on 21st century skills
• Partnership for 21st Century Skills. (2009) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs_-77afyhk
• June Akinson on 21st century skills - http://www.weareteachers.com/web/cybersummit/classroom/ncarolina_atkinson
• Common Core and 21st century skills - http://newlitcollaborative.ning.com/profiles/blogs/common-core-and-21st-century
1. Partnership for 21st Century Skills. (2002). Learning for the 21st Century. Retrieved April 19, 2009, http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/images/stories/otherdocs/p21up_Report.pdf
2. Common Core critique from Diane Ravitch, E.D. Hirsch, and Daniel Willingham - http://www.commoncore.org/pressreleases.php - more from Willingham here http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/03/flawed-assumptions-undergird-the-partnership-for-21st-century-skills-movement-in-education/
August 31 on Senses
• The Senses in American History: A Round Table from Journal of American History 95(2) http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/issues/952/
“What does increasing interest in the multidisciplinary study of the senses have to offer historians? This Journal of American History round table, guest edited by Mark M. Smith, offers essays by Smith, Gerard J. Fitzgerald and Gabriella M. Petrick, Connie Y. Chiang, Richard Cullen Rath, James W. Cook, and David Howes that acquaint readers with the historiography of touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound. The essays offer case studies suggestive of how historians might attend to the senses in their own work.”
Historical Soundscapes - http://teachingdigitalhistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/historical-soundscapes
September 14 on Visual Content and Learning
Lincoln Redux
• http://www.21stcenturyabe.org/
• http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/slidelinc/index.html
For articles other than Werner
Visit the NCSU lib website at http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/
Click "Find Articles" on the left and then "ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER"
You will have to log in with your NCSU unity id.
Search on the article titles to locate the actual articles
1. Werner, W. (2002). Reading visual texts. Theory and Research in Social Education, 30(3), 401-428.
2. Staley, D. J. (2006). Images of the rise of the West: Cognitive art and historical representation. Journal of the Historical Society, 6(3), 383-406.
3. Finnegan, C. A. (2005). Recognizing Lincoln: Image vernaculars in nineteenth-century visual culture. Rhetoric & Public Affairs 8(1), 31-57.
4. Kunhardt III, P. B. (2008). Lincoln's contested legacy. Smithsonian 39(11), 32-38.
September 21 History Painting: Benjamin West’s Studio and Early American History
1. Reading History: Simon Schama's "Dead Certain"
http://newlitcollaborative.ning.com/profiles/blogs/reading-history-simon-schamas
2. Rather, S. (2004). Benjamin West, John Galt, and the biography of 1816. Art Bulletin 86 (2), 324-34.
(Browse) - Galt, J. (1820). The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies. Online at Google Books
3. Fryd, V. G. (1995). Rereading the Indian in Benjamin West's Death of General Wolfe. American Art, 9(1), p72-86.
4. Talk by Hugh Howard author of The painter's chair: George Washington and the making of American art. New York: Bloomsbury Press.
September 28 on Wikipedia, Epistemology, and Historiography
1. Roy Rosenzweig, “Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past,” Journal of American History 93 (June 2006), 117–146.
2. Sheets, K. (2009). Wiki and the history classroom. Perspectives on History 47(5). Retrieved from http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2009/0905/0905for11.cfm
3. Jones, J. (2008). Patterns of revision in online writing: A study of Wikipedia's featured articles. Written Communication, 25(2), 262-289.
4. Ryle, G. (1946). Knowing how and knowing that. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 46, 1-16. (search JSTOR)
5. Snowdon, P. (2003). Knowing how and knowing that: A distinction reconsidered. Presidential address delivered at Aristotelian Society, London.
October 5 on New Literacies and Using Historical Information Online
1. Coiro, J., & Dobler, E. (2007). Exploring the online reading comprehension strategies used by sixth-grade skilled readers to search for and locate information on the internet. Reading Research Quarterly, 42(2), 214-257.
2. Leu, D. (2007). Expanding the reading literacy rramework of PISA 2009 to include online reading comprehension. A working paper commissioned by the PISA 2009 Reading Expert Group. Retrieved from http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/pub_files/Expanding_the_reading_literacy_framework_of_PISA_2009.pdf
3. Tally, B., & Goldenbeerg, L. (2005). Fostering historical thinking with digitized primary sources. Journal of Research on Technology in Education 38(1), 1-21.
October 12 on A Known Life: Slaves in the Cameron Family Papers
1. Read historical overview of the Cameron family
http://historicstagville.googlepages.com/thecamerons
2. Read selected letters from the Plantation Letters collection (read 5-10 letters or more)
http://plantationletters.com/
3. Read 19th century Plantation Life wiki (edit as needed!)
http://wikis.lib.ncsu.edu/index.php/19th_Century_Ante-bellum_Life
4. Browse and read interpretations from Plantation Letters Ning
http://plantation.ning.com/forum
Optional Readings
1. Anderson, J. B. (1985/2001). Piedmont plantation: The Bennehan-Cameron family and lands in North Carolina. Durham County Preservation Society.
2. Jones, Edward P. (2004). The known world. New York: HarperCollins.
October 19 on The Way We See the Past: Hollywood Film in Social Studies
1. Marcus, A. S., & Stoddard, J. D. (2007). Tinsel town as teacher: Hollywood film in the high school classroom. History Teacher, 40(3), 303-330.
2. Stoddard, J. D., & Marcus, A. S. (2006). The burden of historical representation: Race, freedom, and "educational" Hollywood film. Film & History, 36(1), 26-35.
October 26 NO CLASS
Analysis of Plantation Letters
November 2 on Digital History
History Engine - http://historyengine.richmond.edu
1. Torget, A. J., & Nesbit, S. (2009). History Engine: creating a writing assignment for the digital age Perspectives on History 47(5). Retrieved from http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2009/0905/0905for14.cfm
2. Benson, L., Chambliss, J., Martinez, J., Tomasek, K., & Tuten, J. (2009). Teaching with the History Engine: experiences from the field. Perspectives on History 47(5). Retrieved from http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2009/0905/0905for15.cfm
3. Meier, K. S., & Shapiro, R. (2009). Creating community with the History Engine connecting teachers, librarians, students, and scholars. Perspectives on History 47(5). Retrieved from http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2009/0905/0905for16.cfm
November 9 on Space, Geography, and Information Systems
Google Street View Interpretations - http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com/
1. Young, J. R. (2006). With digital maps, historians chart a new way into the past. Chronicle of Higher Education, 53(12), 33-36.
2. Geohistorical Inquiry: Connecting Place and Time and Critical Thinking. Retrieved November 06, 2009 http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/PDFs/geohistorical.pdf
November 16 on Pop Studies
"Don’t Know Much About History", a review from New York Times Sunday Book Review of Horwitz, T. (2009). A voyage long and strange: On the trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and other adventurers in early America. New York: Macmillan Picador
Wiki-based chapter summaries from students in ECI 435 Methods and Materials in Language Arts and Social Studies, Fall 2009
November 23 on DemocracySpace
Design for Democracy - http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/designs_for_democracy/
Frameworks for analyzing historical spaces
November 30 on Exhibiting Social Studies AND Social Studies Tangents
Picasso and the Allure of Language at Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
• http://www.nasher.duke.edu/picasso/
• http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300135466
• http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm081.html
• Simon Schama's Power of Art: Picasso
See the Civil War through poetry - Price, A. (n.d.) Whitman's Drum Taps and Washington's Civil War Hospitals. Retrieved from http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/hospital/whitman.htm See also Walt Whitman. U. S. editions of Leaves of Grass Retrieved from http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/index.html
And see http://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/transcriptions/index.html
Representing the Plural - Diego Rivera's Glorious Victory http://learndigitalhistory.blogspot.com/2009/04/diego-riveras-glorious-victory.html
August 24 on Teaching and Learning Social Studies in the 21st century
Opener – from NewLit.org blog http://newlitcollaborative.ning.com/profiles/blogs/james-madison-and-the-problem
Videos on 21st century skills
• Partnership for 21st Century Skills. (2009) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs_-77afyhk
• June Akinson on 21st century skills - http://www.weareteachers.com/web/cybersummit/classroom/ncarolina_atkinson
• Common Core and 21st century skills - http://newlitcollaborative.ning.com/profiles/blogs/common-core-and-21st-century
1. Partnership for 21st Century Skills. (2002). Learning for the 21st Century. Retrieved April 19, 2009, http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/images/stories/otherdocs/p21up_Report.pdf
2. Common Core critique from Diane Ravitch, E.D. Hirsch, and Daniel Willingham - http://www.commoncore.org/pressreleases.php - more from Willingham here http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/03/flawed-assumptions-undergird-the-partnership-for-21st-century-skills-movement-in-education/
August 31 on Senses
• The Senses in American History: A Round Table from Journal of American History 95(2) http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/issues/952/
“What does increasing interest in the multidisciplinary study of the senses have to offer historians? This Journal of American History round table, guest edited by Mark M. Smith, offers essays by Smith, Gerard J. Fitzgerald and Gabriella M. Petrick, Connie Y. Chiang, Richard Cullen Rath, James W. Cook, and David Howes that acquaint readers with the historiography of touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound. The essays offer case studies suggestive of how historians might attend to the senses in their own work.”
Historical Soundscapes - http://teachingdigitalhistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/historical-soundscapes
September 14 on Visual Content and Learning
Lincoln Redux
• http://www.21stcenturyabe.org/
• http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/slidelinc/index.html
For articles other than Werner
Visit the NCSU lib website at http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/
Click "Find Articles" on the left and then "ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER"
You will have to log in with your NCSU unity id.
Search on the article titles to locate the actual articles
1. Werner, W. (2002). Reading visual texts. Theory and Research in Social Education, 30(3), 401-428.
2. Staley, D. J. (2006). Images of the rise of the West: Cognitive art and historical representation. Journal of the Historical Society, 6(3), 383-406.
3. Finnegan, C. A. (2005). Recognizing Lincoln: Image vernaculars in nineteenth-century visual culture. Rhetoric & Public Affairs 8(1), 31-57.
4. Kunhardt III, P. B. (2008). Lincoln's contested legacy. Smithsonian 39(11), 32-38.
September 21 History Painting: Benjamin West’s Studio and Early American History
1. Reading History: Simon Schama's "Dead Certain"
http://newlitcollaborative.ning.com/profiles/blogs/reading-history-simon-schamas
2. Rather, S. (2004). Benjamin West, John Galt, and the biography of 1816. Art Bulletin 86 (2), 324-34.
(Browse) - Galt, J. (1820). The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies. Online at Google Books
3. Fryd, V. G. (1995). Rereading the Indian in Benjamin West's Death of General Wolfe. American Art, 9(1), p72-86.
4. Talk by Hugh Howard author of The painter's chair: George Washington and the making of American art. New York: Bloomsbury Press.
September 28 on Wikipedia, Epistemology, and Historiography
1. Roy Rosenzweig, “Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past,” Journal of American History 93 (June 2006), 117–146.
2. Sheets, K. (2009). Wiki and the history classroom. Perspectives on History 47(5). Retrieved from http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2009/0905/0905for11.cfm
3. Jones, J. (2008). Patterns of revision in online writing: A study of Wikipedia's featured articles. Written Communication, 25(2), 262-289.
4. Ryle, G. (1946). Knowing how and knowing that. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 46, 1-16. (search JSTOR)
5. Snowdon, P. (2003). Knowing how and knowing that: A distinction reconsidered. Presidential address delivered at Aristotelian Society, London.
October 5 on New Literacies and Using Historical Information Online
1. Coiro, J., & Dobler, E. (2007). Exploring the online reading comprehension strategies used by sixth-grade skilled readers to search for and locate information on the internet. Reading Research Quarterly, 42(2), 214-257.
2. Leu, D. (2007). Expanding the reading literacy rramework of PISA 2009 to include online reading comprehension. A working paper commissioned by the PISA 2009 Reading Expert Group. Retrieved from http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/pub_files/Expanding_the_reading_literacy_framework_of_PISA_2009.pdf
3. Tally, B., & Goldenbeerg, L. (2005). Fostering historical thinking with digitized primary sources. Journal of Research on Technology in Education 38(1), 1-21.
October 12 on A Known Life: Slaves in the Cameron Family Papers
1. Read historical overview of the Cameron family
http://historicstagville.googlepages.com/thecamerons
2. Read selected letters from the Plantation Letters collection (read 5-10 letters or more)
http://plantationletters.com/
3. Read 19th century Plantation Life wiki (edit as needed!)
http://wikis.lib.ncsu.edu/index.php/19th_Century_Ante-bellum_Life
4. Browse and read interpretations from Plantation Letters Ning
http://plantation.ning.com/forum
Optional Readings
1. Anderson, J. B. (1985/2001). Piedmont plantation: The Bennehan-Cameron family and lands in North Carolina. Durham County Preservation Society.
2. Jones, Edward P. (2004). The known world. New York: HarperCollins.
October 19 on The Way We See the Past: Hollywood Film in Social Studies
1. Marcus, A. S., & Stoddard, J. D. (2007). Tinsel town as teacher: Hollywood film in the high school classroom. History Teacher, 40(3), 303-330.
2. Stoddard, J. D., & Marcus, A. S. (2006). The burden of historical representation: Race, freedom, and "educational" Hollywood film. Film & History, 36(1), 26-35.
October 26 NO CLASS
Analysis of Plantation Letters
November 2 on Digital History
History Engine - http://historyengine.richmond.edu
1. Torget, A. J., & Nesbit, S. (2009). History Engine: creating a writing assignment for the digital age Perspectives on History 47(5). Retrieved from http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2009/0905/0905for14.cfm
2. Benson, L., Chambliss, J., Martinez, J., Tomasek, K., & Tuten, J. (2009). Teaching with the History Engine: experiences from the field. Perspectives on History 47(5). Retrieved from http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2009/0905/0905for15.cfm
3. Meier, K. S., & Shapiro, R. (2009). Creating community with the History Engine connecting teachers, librarians, students, and scholars. Perspectives on History 47(5). Retrieved from http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2009/0905/0905for16.cfm
November 9 on Space, Geography, and Information Systems
Google Street View Interpretations - http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com/
1. Young, J. R. (2006). With digital maps, historians chart a new way into the past. Chronicle of Higher Education, 53(12), 33-36.
2. Geohistorical Inquiry: Connecting Place and Time and Critical Thinking. Retrieved November 06, 2009 http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/PDFs/geohistorical.pdf
November 16 on Pop Studies
"Don’t Know Much About History", a review from New York Times Sunday Book Review of Horwitz, T. (2009). A voyage long and strange: On the trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and other adventurers in early America. New York: Macmillan Picador
Wiki-based chapter summaries from students in ECI 435 Methods and Materials in Language Arts and Social Studies, Fall 2009
November 23 on DemocracySpace
Design for Democracy - http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/designs_for_democracy/
Frameworks for analyzing historical spaces
November 30 on Exhibiting Social Studies AND Social Studies Tangents
Picasso and the Allure of Language at Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
• http://www.nasher.duke.edu/picasso/
• http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300135466
• http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm081.html
• Simon Schama's Power of Art: Picasso
See the Civil War through poetry - Price, A. (n.d.) Whitman's Drum Taps and Washington's Civil War Hospitals. Retrieved from http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/hospital/whitman.htm See also Walt Whitman. U. S. editions of Leaves of Grass Retrieved from http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/index.html
And see http://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/transcriptions/index.html
Representing the Plural - Diego Rivera's Glorious Victory http://learndigitalhistory.blogspot.com/2009/04/diego-riveras-glorious-victory.html
Discussion Forum
What have we leared Fall 2009 in ECI 525 2 Replies
Started by John Lee. Last reply by Aaron Munz 6 hours ago.
Free Online Professional Development!
Started by Meghan Petrie Nov. 29, 2008.
Participatory Media II 9 Replies
Started by John Lee. Last reply by Sarah Lindsey Nov. 28, 2008.
A General History-QAR Project
Started by Meghan Petrie Nov. 24, 2008.
Visual project final report 13 Replies
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IReport 1 Reply
Started by Meghan Petrie. Last reply by Bobby Mack Nov. 23, 2008.
Participatory Media I 4 Replies
Started by Allen McNeill. Last reply by Ben McDonald Nov. 17, 2008.
Participatory Media I 5 Replies
Started by Adam Faulkner. Last reply by Kamii Harris Nov. 17, 2008.
Historical Geographic Information Systems 9 Replies
Started by Ben McDonald. Last reply by Kamii Harris Nov. 11, 2008.
Representaion and Networking of the Population Through Technology 9 Replies
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Comment by Charley Norkus on September 20, 2009 at 11:38pm - According to 18th-early 19th century author John Galt, Benjamin West was a natural when it came to artistic drawing and painting. His first picture was a detailed sketch, at the age of seven, of his baby brother, a likeness he drew without any previous training nor having even seen a picture of anything up to that point. West seemed to have lived a charmed life as a child - having need of bristles for brushes, he regularly cut the fur from the back of the family cat - his mother used to kiss him (rather affectionately it seems) rather than scold him, and by these constant encouragements he blossomed as an artist. The fact that he drew from the start without any formal training, and that he spent considerable time in Philadelphia, the colonial hotbed for new, radical ideas in the mid-1700's, it helps one to understand how his later style as an adult was considered a departure from the day's status quo.
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Comment by Chris Touch on August 31, 2009 at 2:48pm -
I am posting based on the readings here for this week for the ECI 525 readings regarding learning in the 21st century and the issue of deep content and the use of technology and what it means to be an educator for 21st century learning.
Really, content is not enough. So many of our students are going to school believing that they are not going to learn but to see a museum of what used to be. I learned while in Brazil that this is not just in the US, but an issue of international implications. Educators need to have to technology skills in addition to the knowledge of their content. Also, not to just stop there, but to keep learning new technology in order to engage their students. This would be a progressive constructivist view, but from experience, I think it works.
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