Thread by @jcarrollhistory

Thread on ‘magpie’ culture. Over the last few months I’ve seen a number of tweets sharing my resources without citing the pieces they’re originally from. IMO, it’s good practice to always cite the relevant blog/article. First, it’s just polite. The resources I create and 1/6

crucially the accompanying context I write up in articles or blogs about the lessons the resources come from take a lot of time and effort. Second, and more importantly, citations are key for the reader to appreciate the rationale behind the resource’s creation, see how that 2/6

curricular planning builds on the hard work of others in history teacher community, and meaningfully assess whether the resource is actually generalisable to the reader’s context. If you don’t the know the resource’s context, you also might not be positioned to mediate 3/6

it in terms of providing its underlying principles that (in the original author's view) the resource's application might require. I’m always delighted to share and discuss anything I make. But any shared resource in isolation is a poor proxy for the underpinning curricular 4/6

planning sitting behind that resource’s creation. History teachers in England are so lucky to have organisations e.g. @histassoc that provide a joined-up body of knowledge which needs to be nurtured. Atomising and decontextualising that knowledge robs 5/6

it of much of its power 6/6.