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Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone) (Paperback)
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Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone) (Paperback)
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Let's start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable
as to have become cliches: We are surrounded by more readily
available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it
is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant.
Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious. With
the internet always at our fingertips, what's a teacher of history
to do? Sam Wineburg has answers, beginning with this: We definitely
can't stick to the same old
read-the-chapter-answer-the-questions-at-the-back snoozefest we've
subjected students to for decades. If we want to educate citizens
who can sift through the mass of information around them and
separate fact from fake, we have to explicitly work to give them
the necessary critical thinking tools. Historical thinking,
Wineburg shows us in Why Learn History (When it's Already on Your
Phone), has nothing to do with test prep-style ability to memorize
facts. Instead, it's an orientation to the world that we can
cultivate, one that encourages reasoned skepticism, discourages
haste, and counters our tendency to confirm our biases. Wineburg
draws on surprising discoveries from an array of research and
experiments-including surveys of students, recent attempts to
update history curricula, and analyses of how historians, students,
and even fact checkers approach online sources-to paint a picture
of a dangerously mine-filled landscape, but one that, with care,
attention, and awareness, we can all learn to navigate. It's easy
to look around at the public consequences of historical ignorance
and despair. Wineburg is here to tell us it doesn't have to be that
way. The future of the past may rest on our screens. But its fate
rests in our hands.
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