Matt Russell

A very mistaken list of the last 12 presidents of the United States and their years in office produced by the Ph.D level scholar known as ChatGPT-5. Includes John F. Katwady, president 1991-1968; George W. bush, president 220Z-1999), and Bill Christen, president 1999-2001

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

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My new (free!) article in the History Education Research Journal exploring what ‘colligation’ is and how it might help teachers develop students’ causal arguments.

Based on a case study with one of my Y13 classes.

journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/article...

Lorsqu’il prépare ses cours, Michael consulte une grande variété de sources pour présenter à ses élèves différentes perspectives et interprétations d’événements passés.

En savoir plus: thinking-historically.ca/fr/michael-s...

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Detail from a 1938 leaflet reading "BOYCOTT JAPANESE GOODS"

In December 1938, a Chinese restaurant owner in Wallaceburg, Ontario, asked his local postmaster if he could distribute some fliers through the mail. A #FridayFind in the archives makes for a short thread about a consumer boycott to protest human rights abuses. #cdnhist #cdnpoli (1/6)

It's #TigerDay! Why not check out our articles on the @leicestertigers.bsky.social Rugby Club collection by PhD student Ellie Alderson ft. photographs, trophies, shirts and fabulous stories. #sportshistory #sportingheritage #rugby @sportingheritage.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social

YouTube video by East Coast Blue Jays Huge Ali Sanchez Strikeout!

Blue Jays catcher Ali Sanchez’s 38mph eephus pitch youtube.com/shorts/1UD50...

From 12 to about a million: A record of the first Filipinos in Canada For many, it may be old log records; but for Pass, it offers a glimpse into the lives of Canadians in the early 20th century and the lesser-known history of Filipinos in Canada.

This story aired a few weeks ago on OMNI News Filipino in Tagalog (with me subtitled: I know but two words of Tagalog); today there's an English digital version. I'm pleased to help make known some little-known stories of #cdnimm history! #cdnhist #bchist

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Have you seen the new layout of Societies & Territories by @learnped.bsky.social ? Check it out at societies.learnquebec.ca

How students make sense of the historical concepts of change, continuity and development ‘Everything flows and nothing stays': how students make sense of the historical concepts of change, continuity and developmentFirst order knowledge and understanding, relating to the ‘stuf...

Frances Blow did a lot of work on change. There's a good Blow piece on change in TH (www.history.org.uk/publications...). Blow & Shemilt have a classic intervention on time in TH also (showing - if we needed it showing - that temporality & chronology are different things). Once, there were giants...

Read about the New York City draft riots which occurred July 13–16, 1863 in NYC’s Civics For All Comics Group, HIDDEN HISTORIES OF NYC: THE DRAFT RIOTS by Nick Bertozzi. Graphic history includes essays by Ed O'Donnell, Tonya Bolden, and Carol Berkin.
Download: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

Members of Thinking Historically for Canada's Future recently published an article titled
Historical Thinking: Trends, Critiques, and Future Directions.

Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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Honoured to be elected Vice-Chair of the Observatory on History Teaching in Europe’s Scientific Advisory Committee today. Looking forward to our work together! #OHTE @ioe.bsky.social #HistoryEducation @cpaucl.bsky.social www.coe.int/en/web/obser...

What a brilliant day with so many enthusiastic educators looking at how we do a better job of Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools. Watch this space for resources and more details soon. Thanks so much to @carolinepennock.bsky.social for making this happen! #historyteacher

Teachers don’t want robots to think for us or interact with students for us.

Teachers want time to effectively provide feedback, use our brains to develop engaging lessons, and build relationships and trust with our students.

Don’t try to “sell” us on outsourcing the best parts of education.

Not only does NYC celebrate comics in the classroom, we also create comics for the classroom. And now…NYC’s Civics For All Comics Group has published a comic for the classroom about one of the most celebrated comic creators in history. Read @fredvanlente.bsky.social & @ryandunlavey.com NEW comic!

I wrote this 4 years ago.
Juneteenth and baseball

firstandpen.com/juneteenth-c... Juneteenth Celebrates Freedom And The Power Of Black Baseball - First And Pen

By framing his pedagogy around the Big Six concepts, Dwayne can ensure students develop thinking skills that they can use throughout their education in history class and beyond.

Learn more at: thinking-historically.ca/dwayne-jeffe...

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Dad raises shirt a bit to air out belly, rub it Dad experts agree that belly-rubbing serves multiple purposes for the fathers who engage in it.

Dad raises shirt a bit to air out belly, rub it

New UM publishing platform makes sharing research online easy The University of Manitoba Libraries is now accepting proposals for publishing on its new open digital publishing platform, eScholarship.   Submit a project proposal  About the eScholar

Turns out the 8th eds. of Origins & Destinies have 9 lives.
Thanks, @umanitoba.bsky.social Libraries for resurrecting these.
news.umanitoba.ca/new-um-publi...

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Among the many horrific things I have heard recently - I just discovered that Oak National has an AI lesson planning tool. But my absolute favourite bits are that a) it gets stuff wrong b) it suggests hilariously bad tasks and c) it's literally no help unless you already know the history

‘They are making young people ill’: is it time to scrap GCSEs? They have shaped the fortunes of young people in the UK for four decades. But now even the former education secretary who introduced these exams wants to see them abolished ...

www.theguardian.com/education/20... Good to see an assessment expert Mary Richardson from @ucl.ac.uk alongside headteachers. What do the experts in #HistoryEducation and #TeacherEducation think?

"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time
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Paul McFarlane completed his PhD a few months back: I supervised, along with @frankcogliano.bsky.social. His thesis examined Scots, the diaspora, and soccer/assoc football in Canada/the US pre-1921. It's brilliant, it's now available free online.

Nearly 1 million students cast ballots in #StudentVoteCanada.

Together with Abacus Data, we surveyed 13,942 participants to learn WHY they voted the way they did.

Check out what we found ▶️

Before the tanks. Never forget. Tiananmen Square.

Students, teachers urge Quebec to follow rest of Canada, get rid of finals worth 50% | CBC News Quebec is the only province in the country with ministerial exams that weigh 50 per cent of high school students' final grades. Some teachers and students have concerns over pressure, student vulnerab...

“Wadden argued that the current model limits students' ability to reflect, express their opinions and take a stance – skills he says all teachers would love to encourage them to develop, especially in a course that teaches Canadian and Quebec history.” #HistoryEducation www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Weekend Update #135: Scratch That: The Ukrainians Just Pulled Off The Most Successful Operation Of The War The New York Times Shows How Trump/Putin Control The Narrative; Trump Delays Again

Hi All, I released my weekend update a few hours ago, and the Ukrainians turned around and launched what is arguably the most successful operation of the war--so I updated it with all the information I could get. Russian strategic airpower received a mighty blow. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Hmm. What does @collinstony.bsky.social make of "played upon the broad gauge principle", I wonder. Any code welcome?
(This refers to the Hamilton Football Club in Ontario, Canada, and dates from November 1869. They eventually became the Hamilton Tigers of Canadian gridiron football).