Teaching 9/11, JFK assassination, and ET life as academic critical thinking case studies
source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com
The following is my best academic approach for how academic professionals interested in controversial current events and history can teach them. When I teach history courses, I open the conversation with a challenge to students: “If you could know anything in history, if you could learn what really happened, what would you want to know?” I have them think, reflect, and then offer to have supplemental teaching units on whatever the class votes as their topics of greatest interest as a “reward” if their academic progress in the regular curriculum is on-pace and meets our academic target for class GPA success as a class (economics of incentives in action).
The purpose of this assignment is to teach the tools of history of who, did what, when, where, and the approach to learn additional facts of the preceding for students to make their own analysis to respond to the subjective
