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  • Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)

    by Sam Wineburg ...
    A look at how to teach history in the age of easily accessible—but not always reliable—information.Let's start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percent of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Verified

    How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online

    by Mike Caulfield, Sam Wineburg ...
    An indispensable guide for telling fact from fiction on the internet—often in less than 30 seconds.The internet brings information to our fingertips almost instantly. The result is that we often jump to thinking too fast, without taking a few moments to verify the source before engaging with a claim or viral piece of media. Information literacy expert Mike Caulfield and educational researcher Sam ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

  • Reading Like a Historian

    Teaching Literacy in Middle and High School History Classrooms—Aligned with Common Core State Standards

    by Sam Wineburg, Daisy Martin, Chauncey Monte-Sano ...
    Featuring an expanded introduction, this award-winning bestseller has been updated to link curriculum to the Common Core State Standards.This popular text shows how to apply Wineburg’s highly acclaimed approach to teaching— Reading Like a Historian—to middle and high school classrooms, increasing academic literacy and sparking students’ curiosity. Each chapter begins with an introductory essay ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • Historical Thinking

    by Sam Wineburg ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives On The P
    Since ancient times, the pundits have lamented young people's lack of historical knowledge and warned that ignorance of the past surely condemns humanity to repeating its mistakes. In the contemporary United States, this dire outlook drives a contentious debate about what key events, nations, and people are essential for history students. Sam Wineburg says that we are asking the wrong questions. ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Why Learn History

    (When It's Already on Your Phone)

    by Sam Wineburg ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 27 min

    Let’s start with two truths about our era: 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: ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

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    **"Poignant....important and illuminating."—The New York Times Book Review"Groundbreaking."—Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just MercyFrom one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious racial bias come stories, science, and strategies to address one of the central controversies of our time**How do we talk about bias? How do we address racial disparities and inequities? ... Read more

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  • Everybody Lies

    Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

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    An Economist Best Book of the YearA PBS NewsHour Book of the YearAn Entrepeneur Top Business BookAn Amazon Best Book of the Year in Business and LeadershipNew York Times BestsellerForeword by Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of our NatureBlending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noi... ... Read more

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  • The Curiosity of School

    Education And The Dark Side Of Enlightenment

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    It's one thing we all have in common. We've all been to school. But as Zander Sherman shows in this fascinating, often shocking account of institutionalized education, sending your kids off to school was not always normal. In fact, school is a very recent invention. Taking the reader back to 19th-century Prussia, where generals, worried about soldiers' troubling individuality, sought a way to ... Read more

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  • Trust Me, I'm Lying

    Confessions of a Media Manipulator

    by Ryan Holiday ...
    The cult classic that predicted the rise of fake news—revised and updated for the post-Trump, post-Gawker age.Hailed as "astonishing and disturbing" by the Financial Times and "essential reading" by TechCrunch at its original publication, former American Apparel marketing director Ryan Holiday’s first book sounded a prescient alarm about the dangers of fake news. It's all the more relevant today ... Read more

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  • Speechless

    Controlling Words, Controlling Minds

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  • Everybody Lies

    What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

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  • The Triple Package

    How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America

    by Amy Chua, Jed Rubenfeld ...
    "That certain groups do much better in America than others—as measured by income, occupational status, test scores, and so on—is difficult to talk about. In large part this is because the topic feels racially charged. The irony is that the facts actually debunk racial stereotypes. There are black and Hispanic subgroups in the United States far outperforming many white and Asian subgroups. Moreover ... Read more

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