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		<title>Skyping with Afghanistan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global History and Social Studies Department Chair Kader Adjout has been using technology in his Middle East senior elective to connect his class with students from Afghanistan. He uses a private social network (a Ning) to work with teachers and students in Afghanistan, and his students post to a blog which receives responses from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discussing a &#8220;New&#8221; Cold War</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rodney Yeoh&#8217;s 11th grade world history classes have been studying the Cold War. In addition to textbooks, Mr. Yeoh regularly brings in materials from the web to supplement the discussions. In a recent blog post, he asks students to comment on a New York Times article about a &#8220;new&#8221; Cold War. The post and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. in the Middle East</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[History Department Chair Kader Adjout teaches an elective called &#8220;The Middle East.&#8221; In a recent blog post, he asks students to respond to a brief, but not simple, prompt: &#8220;What should the U.S. role in the Middle East be?&#8221; Here are a few student responses.
Sheyda &#8216;10
The United States should keep promoting democracy and freedom in [...]]]></description>
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