Who Gets to Tell [Y]Our story? @Edhistory101 - Uncovering The Truth With @JennBinis

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Who determines the truth and gets to tell the story of us in the history books? Jenn Borgioli Binis (@JennBinis), @edhistory101 host, led a conversation at Educon which looked at the answer to this question. She specifically looked at the history of education. She challenged attendees to think about stories told from the perspectives of those who haven’t traditionally told them and had schools named after them.

What if instead of getting the history of education from the men on the left side of the images below, we heard the stories from those on the right side?

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One  Educon participant had this idea for getting started on the journey.

Teach history backwards. Look at current events & ask, "Why did that happen?" Idea at #Encienda at #Educon

— Lisa Nielsen (@InnovativeEdu) January 28, 2017

Here was the process we used:

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