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Technology and Teaching: Reacting to 9/11

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2002

Charles Hauss
Affiliation:
Director of Policy and Research at Search for Common Ground USA and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at George Mason University ([email protected]).
Jed Miller
Affiliation:
Director of Collaboration and Community at Web Lab ([email protected]).
Alexandra Samuel
Affiliation:
IT consulant and Ph.D. student in government at Harvard (awsamuel@te;is/met).

Abstract

Academics often treat political crises as “teachable moments.” They step back from their syllabi and use breaking events in the “real world” to spark classroom discussions that engage their students and also help them see aspects of the planned course material more clearly.

Type
The Teacher
Copyright
© 2002 by the American Political Science Association

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