{"id":305,"date":"2012-11-11T00:49:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T05:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddgreenstein.com\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2012-11-11T00:49:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T05:49:43","slug":"teaching-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddgreenstein.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/11\/teaching-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teachinghistory.org\/best-practices\/examples-of-historical-thinking\/24171\">My Lai Massacre Political Cartoon | Teachinghistory.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to reconcile in my own mind &#8220;teaching&#8221; versus inspiring.\u00a0 Teaching may prevent an ignorant re-occurrence of a &#8220;bad&#8221; act, or it may prevent learning important information or rational.\u00a0 What the USA needs, right now, is inspiration, as the ad on TV for Chevron&#8217;s teaching teachers more information so they can inspire greatness to occur.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also trying to reconcile &#8220;history&#8221;.\u00a0 Is it propaganda or information spin or &#8220;truth&#8221; or stories.<\/p>\n<p>Does the lecturing of &#8220;facts&#8221; and dates without proper applicability to the student help or hurt?\u00a0 Or is it one more piece of information to be given for a student to recite back for credit so he or she can graduate?\u00a0 In this day-in-age?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Lai Massacre Political Cartoon | Teachinghistory.org. I&#8217;m trying to reconcile in my own mind &#8220;teaching&#8221; versus inspiring.\u00a0 Teaching may prevent an ignorant re-occurrence of a &#8220;bad&#8221; act, or it may prevent learning important information or rational.\u00a0 What the USA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddgreenstein.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/11\/teaching-history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddgreenstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddgreenstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddgreenstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddgreenstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddgreenstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toddgreenstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/toddgreenstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddgreenstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddgreenstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddgreenstein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}