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Why #Edcamp Is So Awesome

The Web20Classroom

This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending another Edcamp. EdcampElon was another event in a long like of teacher-driven professional development that can have a lasting impact on the learning of all who attend. Don''t know what an Edcamp is or looks like? Edcamp appeals to educators from all walks of life.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

and world history events. Plague Doctor. Women’s Rights. Apartheid in South Africa. The Reading Like a Historian curriculum also engages students in historical inquiry around both U.S. Like the DBQs, lessons revolve around a central historical question and sets of prima ry documents to engage learners with varied reading skills.