September 11 in Schools

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2010/0910/September-11-in-schools-How-teachers-are-helping-students-understand

I read the article on how to teach about 9/11 in schools.  The whole article seemed to basically talk about teaching 9/11.  TO me, all of the techniques for teachers to teach 9/11 were experiential as much as possible.

What I mean by that is Daniel Maley uses a piece of yellow caution tape that is shown in a movie that he shows his students.  I know that there is a word for this learning, but I can't remember what it is.

When you learn about geography, you are not learning from experiences.  You are not going to the capital of Italy to learn about it.  The chapter that we read in "Education Nation" really emphasizes this when it talks about learning basketball through a textbook

Too often, teachers use this type of teaching where it is not hands-on.  But with this, this teaching of teh events of 9/11, it can be very hands-on because it happened on our soil.

I really liked the statement that Daniel Maley says: "My goal ultimately would be to make them diplomats, in the sense that they're going to seek solutions to these issues, as opposed to (the initial response of) 'Let's just go bomb 'em'..."

The reason that I liked it was that it asks the students to think about what they would do.

In HURL 497, Heather Hackman was staunchly against a heroes and holiday's approach to education.  What that is is teaching the regular curriculum, and one day teaching about something else (i.e. 9/11).

A lot of this curriculum seems to be this, except for Maley's curriculum that looks at terrorism all term long.