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"We Have to Pick Sides": Students Wrestle with Counter Claims on Websites
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Baildon, Mark C.; Damico, James – Social Education, 2006
What distinguishes students' sense-making of the past from historians' thinking is that historians know how to determine the validity of competing truth claims, a rather complex intellectual skill that requires a sophisticated set of heuristics and strategies. One way to help students learn how to determine the validity of competing truth claims…
Descriptors: Validity, United States History, Evaluative Thinking, Interpretive Skills