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

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

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

By Sam Wineburg

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About the book

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-...Show more

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9780226357188

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The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2018

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1

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

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Hardcover

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