We learned last week that the Four Corners Monument isn’t quite at the four corners of the southwestern states of Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. (The site is also known as marking the convergence of six governments, including the Navajo Nation and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.) The early surveyors, using some pretty basic technology [...]
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CCK08: Complexity 101
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cck08, complexity, learning on October 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In which I catch some air and put boots on the ground.
Every once in a while, I’m invited to work with groups or classes on history projects as a “real live historian.” (Insert your own joke here.) Several years ago, I parachuted into a group of students who were putting together a self-selected, relatively “open” [...]
