5. Pick out your “favorite candy” &
save the rest for later
6. “I solemnly swear to never forsake the
code of the He-Man Women Haters
Club and to share any helpful
resources with my new workshop
buddies.”
7. There are over
150 million people
using Social
Networks
The top 10 jobs
predicted for
2010 didn’t
exist in 2004
8. Last year a seven year-
old signed a six
figure endorsement
deal to play
professional video
games
The 25% of the
population in China
with the highest IQs is
greater than the total
population of North
America
10. “Today’s students
are no longer the people
our educational system
was designed to teach.”
Marc Prensky
11. Internet Social
myths Networks
What
Cool Video
are we
software
Internet
myths Networks
Social
Cool
are we
What
software
doing?
games
Video
Blogs &
RSS
Web
sites
games
doing?
Blogs & Web
RSS sites
13. Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division
• <www.dhmo.org/facts.html>
Your All Natural Friend
• <www.armory.com/~crisper/DHMO>
14. A Short Introduction to Holocaust Revisionism
• <www.ibiblio.org/team/history/
controversy/abutz/intro.html>
Holocaust Hoax
• <www.natvan.com/national-vanguard/
assorted/hoax.html>
15. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• <www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/
online/phistories>
A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust: Survivors
• <fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/people/
survivor.htm>
16.
17. The Web is a giant encyclopedia
Filters work
• <www.martinlutherking.org>
All information on the Web is true
56. “You don’t learn because
you’re engaged. You’re
engaged because you’re
learning”
Nick deKanter
Muzzy Lane Software
57. Games can be used to:
• increase literacy skills
• teach problem solving skills
• simulate authentic situations
• encourage collaboration
• engage students in content
• lead to sophisticated research
59. “All child drug addicts . . . are comic-book
readers. This kind of thing is not good
mental nourishment for children!”
Fredric Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent, 1954
60. Scientific evidence links violence and
video games
It’s mostly kids / mostly boys
Gaming creates isolated loners
www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/impact/myths.html
61.
62. “Mini” & complex games are the same
It’s really not that big of a deal
www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/impact/myths.html
78. You are the Historian
• <www.plimoth.org/olc/index_js2.html>
Stop Disasters
• <www.stopdisastersgame.org>
NPS Web Rangers
• <www.nps.gov/webrangers>
81. Make a list of three great
sites you use
Share with others
82. Reading Quest: Making Sense in Social
Studies
• <www.readingquest.org>
National Council for the Social Studies
• <www.socialstudies.org>
Marco Polo
• <marcopolo-education.org>
83. Teaching Tolerance
• <www.tolerance.org>
National Geographic’s My Wonderful
World
• <www.mywonderfulworld.org>
HeadlineSpot
• <www.headlinespot.com>
84. Edsitement
• <edsitement.neh.gov>
History Matters!
• <historymatters.gmu.edu>
Kansas Educational Resource Center
• <www.kerc-ks.org>
85. Language Strategies for Social Science
• <www.stanford.edu/group/step/
resources/LanguageSite/
History_Strategies.html>
Digital History
• <www.digitalhistory.uh.edu>
Smithsonian Institute
• <www.smithsonianeducation.org/
educators>
86. Internet History Sourcebook Project
• <www.fordham.edu/halsall>
National Park Service / Links to the Past
• <www.cr.nps.gov>
Using Primary Sources with Teachers
• <www.whyy.org/generations/
primary.html>
87. Center for History and the New Media
• <chnm.gmu.edu>
Teaching History with Technology
• <www.thwt.org>
Best of History Web Sites
• <www.besthistorysites.net>
88. Social Studies Central
• <www.socialstudiescentral.com>
NARA Digital Classroom
• <www.archives.gov/education>
Library of Congress American Memory
• <memory.loc.gov/teachers>
89. Our Documents
• <www.ourdocuments.gov>
America’s Library
• <www.americaslibrary.gov>
Documents for the Study of
American History
• <www.vlib.us>
91. New York Times Teacher Connections
• <www.nytimes.com/learning/
teachers/index.html>
Mr. Donn’s Pages
• <members.aol.com/donnandlee/
SiteIndex.html>
George Lucas Education Foundation
• <www.edutopia.org>
92. Google for Educators
• <www.google.com/educators>
Tools for Reading, Writing, and Thinking
• <www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/
ela/6-12/Tools/Index.htm>
National Council for the Social Studies
• <www.socialstudies.org>
93. Startspot
• <www.startspot.com>
FirstGov
• <firstgov.gov>
Portals to the World
• <www.loc.gov/rr/international/
portals.html>
