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Oh, so you're full of shit then. PAVLOVSBITCH IS A HATER. BASIC BITCH ALERT

How do you figure she has implants and that she is manipulating videos?

The world isn't over populated. If efforts were made every human on the planet could be fed. The problem is greed and logistics, not that the Earth can't handle more people.

Which is why this is a great topic. Americans can't decipher what makes for a valid source. The Holocaust undeniably happened and by looking at the evidence and the invalidity of the sources that say that it didn't happen students are bolstering their ability not only to read and interpret sources, but to parse…

Putting that humanities degree to good work I see.

Seems like a great reason to teach them about valid sources and how to respond to propaganda then... right?

Typos certainly never happen on casual internet blogs. It's good to know that you're putting that humanities degree to work.

This comment should be at the very top.

Where do you teach were 12-17 year olds can't evaluate what constitutes a valid source.

And yet, students won't all answer this correctly. Which means they havent learned about credible sources and critical thinking... which makes it a good way to grade the acquisition of these skills.

This is patently false. Look at death tolls for most wars and natural disasters as the years go by, as well as how modern accounts on historical events versus ancient ones. People doubt the veracity of history and use new sources or better methods to draw new conclusions.

Not every student will do this though. Most algebra problems that 8th graders encounter have only one solution and yet millions of kids make D's on math tests.

Thank you, I'm being called a troll for understanding what the assignment is actually about.

They didn't frame it that way. Holy hell, they are saying "some have this viewpoint, others have this viewpoint, hear are some articles from bathshit sources, here are some articles from good sources, which viewpoint is right".

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No, we teach 8th graders what sources are considered academic and which sources can be passed up due to a lack of credibility and we encourage them to come at any problem with a rational mindset that encourages looking up evidence and critically processing that data to organize a belief that is well-informed and…

The point of the about.com source was for the students to recognize that about.com isn't a good source. The students weren't expected to find framing mechanisms and logical fallacies, they were supposed to recognize that their peer reviewed history books were more credible than about.com, which is very possible for an…

Thank you so much, that whole paragraph about how 8th graders shouldn't be doing things that have already been figured out is the most mind numbingly stupid thing I've ever read.

Except, you know what? We don't need a sheaf of rousing essays written by children arguing that the Holocaust happened, BECAUSE THE HOLOCAUST FUCKING HAPPENED. We've covered this. There are still people alive who lived through it. We don't need 8th-graders to engage with this question any more than we need them to…