Thematic US History: Year 3 – DPLA as Research Playground | historyfriend

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-07-10

Summary:

" ... One lesson will be centered around the Digital Public Library of America. DPLA is an enormous and eclectic database, with arms that reach into a wide number of collections across the US. It is the perfect playground for research. I will have students choose an event from US history to research in the DPLA. They will sift, refine, and then curate resources. I hope that they get taken down unexpected paths with resources they never imagined existed. In the end, I don’t care where they arrive. Some will no doubt stay focused and curate a group of resources that they could use to research their topic. Others will get sucked into one resource and spend their time reading it, or trying to find out more about it. Others will jump around, not really focusing on any one thing and feeling a sense of panic or inadequacy as time in class winds down. All of those experiences are legitimate research experiences. No matter how they spend their time, they will all end with a reflection on their own process, conveyed to me either in written or oral form. Here is the assignment ..."

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07/10/2015, 09:33

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07/10/2015, 05:33