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With Help From Bill Gates, ‘Big History’ to Reach 15,000 Students

September 9, 2014 /

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Big History https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home is an audacious, multidisciplinary approach to teaching the history of the universe in a single course, beginning with the Big Bang.

Bill Gates is bent on getting "Big History" into high school classrooms, according to a recent feature in the New York Times Magazine.

As I’ve written before, Big History http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2014/02/classroom_tool_aims_to_teach_b.html?qs=big_history is an audacious, multidisciplinary approach to teaching the history of the universe in a single course, beginning with the Big Bang. The lessons span billions of years and combine the sciences, arts, and humanities. The project is the brainchild of David Christian, a history professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. (For a better idea of what it all means, watch Christian’s 2011 TED Talk. https://www.ted.com/talks/david_christian_big_history )

By Liana Heitin

Full Story: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2014/09/gates_big_history.html