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Archive: 2014 (110 Posts)

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Reflections on the World of Tomorrow: Science, Carl Sagan, and Different Conceptions of the Future

Posted by: Stephen Wesson

Our ideas about science and technology play an important role in how we imagine the future. Does new technology directly improve society? Or is it more complicated than that. We can look at a series of items from the new online collection Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond to explore how Carl Sagan’s ideas developed and changed on this topic over time.

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Sentiments of an American (History) Teacher: Primary Sources and the Library of Congress Summer Teacher Institute

Posted by: Cheryl Lederle

This summer, attending the Library of Congress Summer Teacher Institute took me back to the “awe” of history. Seeing the diary entry from the night President Lincoln was shot, and being able to see the emotion in the writing…You don’t get that in a transcript or in a modified document.

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Kate DiCamillo: Stories Connect Us

Posted by: Cheryl Lederle

The role of the Ambassador is to raise “national awareness of the importance of young people’s literature as it relates to lifelong literacy, education and the development and betterment of the lives of young people.” DiCamillo, the fourth to hold this position, has chosen “Stories Connect Us” as her theme, saying “When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see each other.”