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Side research find: here's an encyclopedia ad where the main question would stir up plenty of debate as to some of the answers provided.

(I mean, c'mon...Henry Hudson as the birth of Canada?)

Source: Chatelaine, November 1965 #vintagead #canadianhistory

Cannot recommend this book highly enough: it takes history education seriously and is a history of ideas about it - it’s also a powerful philosophical enquiry.

#historyeducation

And Sportsnet crashed. Radio time for the eleventh

Another egregious use of the notwithstanding clause. The right wing populist governments in this country are a scourge.

Intercolonial Railway of Canada : pocket time table, September 15th, 1890 : Intercolonial Railway (Canada) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Cover title

In 1890, Expresses left Halifax at 1.30pm and arrived at Lévis at 10.40am the following day - about 20hrs of travel time. But how often was it on time? LAC has govt railway logs for the period, so I suppose average performance could be (maybe has been) calculated.

archive.org/details/inte...

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Get it in, track it down, follow up Three essential moves to using AI for verification and contextualization, with a bit of LLM-specific guidance

People always aske me "What does SIFT for AI look like?" Meaning, what is the minimal set of habits you need to teach students to use it effectively for exploration of claims online? It's taken a couple years to get here but this is a start at a response mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/get-it-in-...

Civics Education Struggles, Even as Government and Politics Saturate Daily Life

“When democracy deteriorates, you need more and better civic education. If there is a pandemic, you need to send in the nurses and the doctors. It’s the same thing with a democracy crisis — civic educators are the nurses.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

Laurence Rees offers important insights into the Nazi mind, as explored in his recent publication ‘The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings From History’, in our 'Dialogues in Holocaust Education' podcast series.
Listen here: holocausteducation.org.uk/dialogues-in...

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When governments trample on our rights, the courts must be free to weigh in. Full stop Invoking the so-called notwithstanding clause doesn't prevent judicial review, despite what some provincial leaders might say.

My op-ed, in today's Toronto Star, on the notwithstanding clause. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

England have been so efficient in the red zone and Canada do wasteful in the same spots and that’s your ball game.

Brilliant game from the hosts. Canada had such a brave tournament. Tough to lose like this.

Here is a question for #HistoryEducation. What makes a good Teaching History article? A short thread for #historyteacher s.
Teaching History is a journal published by @histassoc.bsky.social and read by thousands of teachers. (Is that the right 'number'?)
1/n 🧵

Goal-kicker, try-scorer, breakdown menace: De Goede is Canada’s World Cup weapon The versatile Swiss army forward is the player England must stop if they are to lift the trophy at Twickenham

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Image of the book's cover. It is a plain cover simply with the words "On Freedom" and "Timothy Snyder"

My book "On Freedom," the case for the value of freedom and a proposal for a better future, with a new foreword accounting for where we are today, will be out in paperback October 28th.
timothysnyder.org/on-freedom

Learn more about the Portraits of Professional Practice: thinking-historically.ca/ppp/

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The efficiency and power of Canada remains so impressive at the Rugby World Cup. These women are so well prepared. Next week vs NZ is going to be such a battle.

Wow what a week the @uonsoe.bsky.social #ITT #historyteacher s have had as we've begun our journey towards becoming a teacher together. We've thought about our preconceptions around effective history teaching, influences on the curriculum, role of textbooks and examinations...1/5

Diane discusses her approach to teaching historical thinking by emphasizing the importance of understanding different perspectives and avoiding presentism.

Learn more about Diane's experiences at: thinking-historically.ca/diane-vautour/

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These Ottawa churches opposed heritage status, the city is pushing forward anyway The city is in a rush to give historic buildings heritage status, but several Catholic churches are against the move. Here's why.

Heritage designations are very often contentious. There's a tension between preserving our history and the additional resources that sometimes requires, and cities lack tools to enforce heritage protections. The City could be less parsimonious with help; we need legal teeth from the Province.

Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

Ken Dryden truly cared about what went on around him and wanted to make the world better.

Wrote him a letter as a kid. He wrote back, thoughtfully. That stuck with me.

Met him as an adult in 2011. Told him about the letter. Had a casual chat about cheeseburgers of all things.

A great Canadian.

HIST 493: History of Hip Hop in America - YouTube

Some of you asked if I would make a playlist for my Hip Hop history class. Here it is! It's pretty long because I basically condensed all of my Spotify playlists and added more notable tracks.

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Quite apart from the disingenuousness of this ‘test’ it’s stunning how sloppy it is.

Q 29 asks who was US President during WWII: the correct (sic) answer is FDR but it also gives Harry Truman as a possible wrong (sic) answer!

Episode 216: Observing Classroom Discussions with Lightning Jay & Abby Reisman In episode 216, Dan and Michael chat with Lightning Jay and Abby Reisman about their article published in Theory & Research in Social Education, “The social studies discourse instrument: Valida…

New podcast!!! You can listen to @abbyreisman.bsky.social and I discuss the importance of discussions in the social studies classroom! It get meta!! visionsofed.com/2025/07/21/e...

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I just finished it last night

Great thread. AI planned lessons I've seen are at best very superficial and at worst just plain poor. When teachers deliver lessons without doing the thinking themselves, or understanding the thinking of the person who planned, or without adapting, learning and student thinking are the casualties.

"Yes, Students Should Still be Writing Essays in an Age of AI."

I am grateful that the @cndhistassoc.bsky.social has reprinted an essay that I wrote for @thestar.com. Full text available at: cha-shc.ca/wp-content/u...

Excerpts below.