Historical Content

In our DigiCiv class, we tend to focus on the Digital aspect of our class - reading the blogs, writing the blogs, using this class as an exuse to play on the internet with all the cool new tools instead of our other school work - I think we've all thoroughly enjoyed it!

However, Dr. Burton reminds us that we need to address the historical content as well!  Though it is certainly not tedium, it IS familiar.  So how can we play with the historical content appropriately enough to show mastery?

Books mentioned in Winter 10



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Last year, during the Winter Semester, most of my classes and teachers mentioned several books that I simply did not have time to read.  I wrote a note about each book, hoping that I would have time later to revisit the subject.

I thought it might be of interest to see the classes & books I took:

Classes I took:

   Honors Biology 100

   American Heritage100

   Honors Book of Mormon 122

   Introduction to Mechanical Engineering 191

   Western American History in the 20th Century 361

Facts and Fun

As I started to read Dickens' "Hard Times", I had to stop - even the first few sentences hurt!  Education in every form should be full of exciting & interesting moments of discovery, expanding our minds and hearts, learning the what as well as the why and how, but most of all fun!

survey - chime in, please!

I have a friend who cannot go to college at this time - she is neither physically nor financially able to attend at this time - but she really wants to learn, improve, and expand her horizons & knowledge.

I have already suggested to her that she read the Harvard Classics & the Newberry books for Juvinile fiction.

So, my dear readers, I/she would like your help - what could you suggest to her to read to educate herself?

Anything they can do, I can do to!

Give a kid a computer, & (s)he can learn anything!

I saw this TED talk on Ted.com today - I get it now - I CAN do it! - This awesome talk tells of the experiment of making computers with internet access available to kids from all walks of life & around the world; and how they learn & teach each other.  It is an amazing journey to tell!  Aparently, nothing stopped the kids in the experiments - language, poverty, location, etc - if they had computer/internet access, they would learn & could learn amazing and advanced things, IF left to themselves!

Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled for the help, instruction, and interaction from and with you, my friends!  I'm just glad we're not having to teach ourselves bio-engineering!