#sschat — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sschat, aggregated by home.social.
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Watching Trump’s Venezuela adventurism, I keep thinking about how often U.S. power gets sold as “necessary” and “for their own good,” right up until the bill comes due.
I turned that into a teacher-friendly lesson using Library of Congress political cartoons. It stays usable in class while still asking hard questions. https://peterpappas.com/2026/01/the-constable-or-the-conqueror-debating-u-s-intervention.html #HistoryTeacher #HISTED #SSchat #History #HistoryMatters #Cartoon #politics #Trump #comics -
Turn your students into historical detectives. I just posted a way to use AI to create custom mystery activities where every student holds a clue and the whole class has to argue their way to an explanation. https://peterpappas.com/2025/12/design-your-own-historical-mysteries-with-ai.html #HistoryTeacher #EdTech #TeachingWithAI #HISTED #SSchat
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I enjoyed this short podcast on the meaning of "Asia." Worthwhile of folks who #TeachWorldHistory or geography. #sschat #iteachsocialstudies www.historians.org/podcast/big-...
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Crowdsourcing teachers: If you had the chance to teach a World History K-5 class, what would be your must teach topics for any time period? I'm especially interested in hearing about Asia and South America. I feel pretty confident with my Africa list, but by all means feel free to make sure I have not missed anything. TIA.
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Just started Antonia Fraser's The Warrior Queen. She asserts the USA is the lone culture to **not** have a historical Warrior Queen we can look to w pride. I'm sitting here trying to think of 1 woman fr ~400yrs of #history who could qualify as a national power and force to be reckoned with. #histodons #sschat
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#LaborDay is my favorite holiday! Here is a post that I wrote for history teachers back in 2016 about the intersection of race and labor rights in the U.S. #sschat http://christophermartell.blogspot.com/2016/01/teaching-intersection-of-race-and-labor.html
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A naming project from #Montpelier - giving voice to the #enslaved people of President James Madison.
https://digitaldoorway.montpelier.org/project/say-their-names/
#histodons #slavery #USHistory #BlackMastodon #geneaology #homeschool #sschat
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I know school is out for the summer, but I wrote this post about a month ago to help teachers teach about the history of affirmative action. I hope it might help teachers address the recent #SCOTUS ruling in the fall. #sschat http://christophermartell.blogspot.com/2023/06/teaching-about-affirmative-action.html
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Boston History Teachers: Did you know that the Digital Commonwealth has this excellent repository of images of the Black Panther Party in Boston? Here is a photo of their headquarters at 375 Blue Hill Ave. Check them out here: https://digitalcommonwealth.org/search?f%5Bsubject_facet_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Black+Panther+Party #sschat
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Social studies teachers: How are you preparing students for the upcoming ruling on affirmative action by the Supreme Court? I put this blog post together to help. #sschat http://christophermartell.blogspot.com/2023/06/teaching-about-affirmative-action.html
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Henry Kissinger just turned 100 (and the media can't stop celebrating it). History teachers! Use this moment to teach about his real legacies (and while you're at it, teach about Daniel Ellsberg, who was a true hero of the US-Vietnam War era). #sschat https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/henry-kissinger-vietnam-war/
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Was today the first time you learned about Corky Lee? If so, check out his bio on Zinn Education Project. He was responsible for photographing many important Asian American historical events and we should be teaching his story in every U.S. history class. https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/asian-americans-and-moments-in-peoples-history/#Corky_Lee #sschat
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Does anyone know of a summer training for teachers in leading class discussions in the Humanities - History or English? #teachdon #histodon #sschat #education #teaching
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On the eve of the 2023 State of the Union Address, here is an article that Mark Kissling and I wrote back in 2014 on helping students critically analyze it the following day. #sschat #sotu2023 https://www.bu.edu/wheelock/files/2014/11/Chris-Martell-Article.pdf
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@AHAHistorians Vetted list of #teaching resources about #Jan6 for #educators, #homeschool, #teachers, #edutooter #sschat
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History Teachers: You need to check out Rebecca Hall's book @[email protected]. Uncovers the powerful history of women-led slaves revolts, but can also explain historiography to students through a graphic novel with amazing illustrations by Hugo Martínez. #sschat https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Wake/Rebecca-Hall/9781982115197
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I have a question for middle school social studies teachers in Massachusetts. Have you seen more, the same, or less civics being taught in your school since the 2018 MA Civics Ed. Bill? Examples of what's happening in your school also appreciated. #sschat https://www.mass.gov/news/governor-baker-signs-bill-to-promote-civic-education-for-students
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A doc. student at the University of Rochester is seeking participants for her dissertation study on teaching difficult histories. If you are currently a social studies teacher, please consider participating. Learn more here: https://blogs.rochester.edu/gatekeepingdifficulthistories/ #sschat
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The Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Musuem in MA now has all the original manuscripts from the #Salem #witchcraft trials available in their #DigitalCollection portal. Search by date or subject. Some of the 500+ docs are transcribed.
#histodons #sschat #educators
https://pem.quartexcollections.com/documents?collections=Salem%20Witch%20Trials%20Collection&applyState=true -
Here's a great resource from Zinn Education Project about the FBI and COINTELPRO, if you would like to add it to your U.S. history curriculum. #sschat https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/cointelpro-exposed/
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History teachers: Do you teach COINTELPRO, which involved covert and often illegal FBI surveillance/disruption of political activists in 1950-60s? This report of Trump admin's attempts to do the same in 2020 could be a great present day connection. #sschat https://www.opb.org/article/2022/10/27/newly-un-redacted-report-shows-how-feds-politicized-response-to-2020-portland-protests/
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I feel like maybe the social studies teaching Mr. M Bs @mattbusch and @MrBunchGovEcon that I know might appreciate each other. Coast to coast #sschat
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Hello to anyone who might be reading! #Introduction
My name is Matthew Bunch, and I am a 12th Grade AP U.S. Government and Politics and AP Macroeconomics teacher at MAST Academy on Virginia Key in beautiful Miami, Florida.
My background was in journalism, and I both advise the student newspaper at MAST and work part-time at the Miami Herald as an online producer. 1/2
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Reading David Yacovone’s “Teaching White Supremacy” and after the chapter on the ideological ravings of John Van Evrie and others in the early-mid 1800s… it’s hard to not come to the conclusion that John Brown was right.
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So, that’s a bit about me. I look forward to connecting with people who share similar interests and passions!
#abed #abpoli #cdnpoli #curriculum #k12education #TeacherEducation #Teachers #SSChat #histodons #democracy #DemocraticEducation #HistoryEducation #Travel #bilingual #bilingue #EduTooter
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Social studies teachers! Now would be a great time to order this important new book edited by Amanda Vickery and @[email protected] (I just did). It is sure to be a seminal book in helping us re-envision what social studies is and can be. https://tcpress.com/critical-race-theory-and-social-studies-futures-9780807767665 #sschat
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Originally posted on TheEdublogger.
Earlier today I sent an email out to the nearly one million educators on our Edublogs list.
The subject line had an oh so embarrassing mistake.
Here it is:
Your invited! Free course on blogging with students
Of course you caught it immediately. I did too, as soon as it landed in my inbox. Unfortunately for me, by that time, there was no way to ‘unsend’. Major oops!
Making Excuses
I could suggest that this mistake was in part due to the exhaustion that any parent with a 2-month-old and a 2-year-old would understand.
Or, there’s the excuse that I was working too quickly, trying to squeeze too much in at the end of a long work day.
None of it matters, though. As you’ll see in a minute, clearly my mistake struck a nerve with many, and for that, I’m truly sorry.
Open The Flood Gates
As soon as I saw the mistake, I knew exactly what was about to happen. I have made a typo or two in a mass email before. But nothing could have prepared our team for the flood of emails, tweets, and complaints we were about to receive.
If you are going to make a grammar mistake, do your best to make sure that it isn’t in front of hundreds of thousands of English teachers!
Can I Learn From This?
I’ve been working on a post about feedback recently – mostly aimed at helping students learn about creating quality comments on classmates’ blog posts. But I hadn’t yet been able to come up with a unique or interesting angle to make the post good enough to publish. It struck me that perhaps using some of the feedback we received about this mistake might make for great examples and help spark discussion.
So, here goes. I hope to not further upset anyone that contacted us by sharing these – it really is meant all in good fun!
Which of the following types of feedback do you find the most helpful and why?
The Factual Feedback
Your “your” needs an apostrophe: you are contracts to you’re. Or you can send me an invitation that you might identify as “your invitation”. “Your invited” is just wrong
The Punitive Feedback
For the love of grammar! This is an educational blog site and you use the incorrect form of you’re in the title? “Your invited” come on! Shame. I am leaving your mailing list.
The Regretful Feedback
How I wish you could pull this email back and change it to YOU’RE invited!
The Condescending Feedback
Surely Edublogs is not endorsing poor spelling?
The Grammatically Incorrect Feedback
Don’t you mean you’re invited!
The Ranting Feedback
I’m afraid that if the standard of your product is illustrated by the quality of your/you’re grammar in the subject line, I would NOT want to use “edublogs” in my school
The ‘Starts With A Positive’ Feedback
I LOVE Edublogs, but as a teacher I can’t help but notice the Subject line of the most recent email I received is incorrectly spelled: Your should be You’re 🙂
The ‘Ends With A Positive’ Feedback
As an English teacher, I cringed. You meant, “YOU’RE invited [as in you are…]. That’s all.
Smiles.The Public Shaming By Tweet Feedback
Ouch! @edublogs with a grammatical #epicfail in their email this evening. #edchat #sschat #tlap #LiteracyMatters
The Polite Feedback
Just an observation. As an English teacher, my superpower is noticing spelling and most grammatical errors…it’s a thankless job…but just wanted to bring to your attention that the most recent notice I received should read, “YOU’RE invited!” rather than “YOUR invited.” I appreciate you! Just a hazard of being an English teacher.
Thoughts On Feedback
Reading through the different replies we received got me thinking about the effectiveness of feedback that I’ve provided students over the years. I know that Edublogs isn’t a student, and those that emailed us aren’t our teachers, so the situation doesn’t totally apply. But I’ve been reminded by all of this that there are dozens of ways to say the same thing. And some ways may just be more productive and helpful than others.
Please leave a comment below with any thoughts you have on effective feedback. We’ll use it to help put together a more detailed resource to use with students.
In the meantime, we’ll keep working hard to provide a platform that provides a safe place for us all to share, make mistakes, and learn from each other.
And once again, I’m sincerely sorry for the grammar mistake in our email today. 🙂
The comments on TheEdublogger are pure gold.
https://ronnieburt.com/a-mistake-an-apology-and-a-lesson-on-feedback/