Teaching Big History

The first book of pedagogy for teaching Big History, out now (© 2015) from UC Press. Edited by Richard B. Simon, Mojgan Behmand, Thomas Burke. (This page: RBS)

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BIG HISTORY IN FICTION Teaching Big History coauthor/editor @rbsimon named a finalist in @PENamerica Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. :)

https://t.co/t3swxwXbvb

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Honored that my Hybrid Short Story "Corrido" is in @HungerMtn #30!

Teen Rabbit lead singer Alejandra Hernandez, sprung from S.F. City Jail by resistance fighters, is asked to make an agitprop holo to oppose the dictator. But Alex has other ideas ...

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The world just had its hottest April on record – extending the sequence of record-breaking months to 11 in a row. https://t.co/zZVsithtuf

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Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird

This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. @toddwaterbury, @angyche and myself,

The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵

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A big deal.

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#BigHistoryMetaphor

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Oh yes, wow, this image.

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Big History
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@matthiasellis Eggers' The Circle. Ishiguro's Klara and The Sun.

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@MelanieDuring @PerAhlberg1 ⚡️👊⚡️

[Melanie During, PhD. ⛏🦕🦖🦩🍉 @MelanieDuring]

I thought getting my paper out was the hardest thing.

No, this was the hardest thing I have ever done: https://t.co/a8eze12tLm

I've been asked to look away, to let it remain in the shadows, but I am happy I put my foot down.

Huge thanks go out to my supervisor @PerAhlberg1 !

[Andre Gilara @AndreGilara]

@Onderwijsgek @TeachingBigHist @BigHistoryNL Daarom heb ik deze yurlspagina gemaakt. https://t.co/D7tVhsWKZe De opbouw die jij gebruikt, gebruik ik ook. Een montessoriprincipe: va het geheel naar de delen en van de delen naar het geheel.

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#BigHistory #Threshold9

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Star Trek Discovery is cutting edge in so many ways. Consciousness revolution as the next threshold.

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Wow! ⚡️🕷⚡️

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An artist’s take on how the Webb images are being processed and how that taps our cultural imagination ...

[Trevor Paglen @trevorpaglen]

Artist here with some thoughts on the amazing JWST images. There’s a lot going on in these images that prompt us non-astronomers to be affected by them in ways that are both particular and powerful.
A thread… ⤵️

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Jeepers.

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For instance ...

[Jonathan McDowell @planet4589]

The public are excited by the images, but astronomers are as excited by the spectra, like this one. I want to talk about why

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Startling. These @NASAWebb images are sinking in. If we can see objects so far away and so far back in time with this clarity, imagine, too, the acuity with which we might see nearer objects. A Big Historian might imagine that new unforeseen possibilites will emerge ...

[Richard B. Simon 🪬 @rbsimon]

WEBB Deep field image. Seen from Earth, per NASA, an area of the sky the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length. All those dots are not stars, but GALAXIES, each one billions of stars. This is 13 billion light years away - so the light is from 13 billion years back in time.