Karen, I think you have an excellent idea in recruiting teachers to help
with the huge task of digitizing primary sources. Perhaps we should take
digitizing the past as a serious national goal.
If there is money to pay for digitizing, it should be easier to find
folks to do the job. There is a layer of "baby-boomers" who are at the
end of their "career", but not old enough to "retire" who could be
tapped ...
Anne
Anne
On 3/25/2012 11:31 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> There is a serious movement to rewrite history. In particular, I am talking
> about Texas, and their move to delete historical figures and events from
> textbooks to meet their personal political agenda. And I would think that
> Virginia would especially be concerned about this movement seeing that Texas
> wants to move Thomas Jefferson out of the textbooks, as well.
>
> As a former history teacher, I think that moving in the direction of using
> primary sources to teach history, moving away from textbooks that have factual
> errors, and become political weapons of propaganda that have a lasting effect on
> our children is something that should be discussed.
>
> Districts can create their own digital libraries of primary sources. The
> American Memory collection has over 8 million records. The National Archives
> has billions of records. Instead of spending outrageous amounts of money on
> books, why not pay teachers to come to D.C. and digitize records, go back and
> create some wonderful lesson plans to use with those resources.
>
> Karen Needles
> Director
> Lincoln Archives Digital Project
> http://www.lincolnarchives.us
>
>
> On March 24, 2012 at 2:09 PM David Kiracofe<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Certainly in a free society, one is allowed to embrace whatever private biases
>> one wishes and to share them with anyone who will listen. But the matter of
>> the history textbooks is an imposition of someone's biases, through the medium
>> of public education, on society at large. This is wrong. The state has an
>> obligation to provide as full an account of the past as is appropriate to the
>> age group of the students.
>>
>> David Kiracofe
>>
>> ________________________________________
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>> Subject: 03232232Z12 Re: Textbooks
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>> We all want the same things in life: Trouble comes; we all want them on our
>> terms. I often exercise my bias by just ignoring this or that. Might that be
>> the case at the Temple University? And then again, I often exercise that
>> same bias by developing outrageous attacks on human events to suit my own
>> perception of how things should be.
>>
>> For example: I proclaim synchronized swimming as a non-Olympic sport. What
>> idiot let it into the arena? It’s splendid entertainment. But it’s not a
>> Olympic sport. Why? Because you can’t judge a “wet smile” objectively.
>>
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> "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is
> doing it." Karen Needles
>
> "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than
> any other one thing."
> Abraham Lincoln to Isham Reavis, Nov. 5, 1855
> Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2, p. 328
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