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I’ve been all week on the road — either presenting, traveling, or sleeping, and it leaves little time to blog or even tweet. But I’ve spent some more time thinking about Clay Burell’s project, “Teaching ‘Against the Textbook’.”
What’s I find so interesting about this project is that the students are learning about history (or what ever the subject) by acting like historians. When a historian encounters a new artifact or a new idea from a fellow historian, part of the job is to find the evidence that the object or ideas is appropriate to the conclusions that it implies. Does its acuracy, validity, reliability… support the message?
Asking students to find the evidence that the information in their textbooks (or other resources, including their teachers’ lectures) is a way of learning how to learn. And I continue to maintain that this is more than a social studies, science, health, or mathematics skill. It is a literacy skill — what I might call “Learning literacy.”
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