Our Americas Archive

Our Americas Archive Partnership (OAAP) is an innovative digital project that facilitates scholarly inquiry into the Americas from a hemispheric perspective.

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We'll be adding new material to the archive on Brazil soon!

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On the everday level, how do we as teachers take charge of the mechanisms of learning? How do we help our students do the same? #delange8

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CD: Take charge of the mechanisms of learning. #delange8

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CD: What should school and work mean for the age we live in? #delange8

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How do we deal with content that stays around forever? #delange8

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CD: Multiple-choice as an assembly line test.#delange8

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CD: You have to have a method that allows you to hear/see the outlier. #delange8

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What are the problems that the last information age were designed to solve? #delange8

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@Michael_A_Gavin Seems like we need to cultivate a culture of play across the university. Ah....Walter Benjamin is just too strong.

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JSB: Learning is both public and social. #delange8

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How we do give our students permission to be "foolish"? How do we incite play institutionally and in the classroom? #delange8

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JSB: "Play is a space of invention and permission"; "we permit you to be foolish" #delange8

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JSB: play constructs the frame of learning #delange8

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Writing is always "a conversation," so is it that technologies like blogging allow more people to participate in the conversation? #delange8

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Blogging as a conversation...tweeting too!# delange8

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Who are today's entrepreneurial learners? #delange8

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"dispositions cannot be taught. But they can be cultivated in the right settings" #delange8

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A hemispheric approach to the history of disease: http://t.co/4ZsMB6y6

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Teach Literature through the archive! Check out: http://t.co/8VhKeqiC

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Learn about personal narratives in the OAAP: http://t.co/4Bt2Rnp3