Big History Project released for K12

Big History Project: ” Yesterday the Bill Gates supported Big History Project opened the free  online class for K12 education. It’s an attempt to tell a compressed history of the world since the Big Bang through what historian David Christian calls Thresholds,  major transition in the universe (e.g., creation of stars) and on earth (e.g,, appearance of agriculture). It’s unique in it’s approach to history in that it breaks the eurocentric humancentric traditional approaches. Christian endeavors to bring history to science. It is symptomatic of a society trying to find ways to continually condense the huge amount of knowledge that are being generated and communicated on a daily basis (See Big Data ).”

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