ASHP Advances in Digital Media and Learning CompetitionWe’re happy to share that American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is a Stage 1 winner in the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Teacher Mastery badge competition (whew, that was a mouthful). Our proposal seeks to develop a badge system for an online professional development community where teachers can develop their skills as history educators, instructional designers, and peer collaborators. Now it’s on to Stage 2, where we’re working with game developers and education researchers to submit a proposal that describes in greater detail how teachers can earn badges, what the badges will look like, and how… |
The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is
dedicated to renewing interest in history by challenging traditional ways
that people learn about the past. Founded in 1981 and based at the City
University of New York Graduate Center, ASHP/CML produces print, visual,
and multimedia materials that explore the richly diverse social and cultural
history of the United States. We also lead professional development
seminars that help teachers to use the latest scholarship, technology,
and active learning methods in their classrooms.
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Podcasts from “Is There Anything More to See?”Podcasts from the third program of Still Hazy After All These Years explore the persistence of photography’s influence over the vision of the Civil War. In Is There Anything More to See? Civil War Photography and History, a panel of noted art historians and historians ponder what remains to be learned from the medium and the war’s visual record. Among...[More In the Limelight] |