http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/09/11/who-knows-what-day-it-is/ (bôr'dər-lănd') n. Located on or near a frontier. An indeterminate area or condition. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:36:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/09/11/who-knows-what-day-it-is/#comment-7574 Educational Technology and Life Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:47:00 +0000 http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/09/11/who-knows-what-day-it-is/#comment-7574 [...] Who Knows What Day It Is? (Via Borderland.) This post by Doug at Boderland is my favorite 9/11 post of the day. There are only ever going to be more and more young people who need to have these conversations and need to have these questions answered. I also wonder how relevant or immediate this day will be to young students. I know that they will live in the world forever changed by 9/11, but I also know how events like Martin Luther King Jr’s death, or JFKs death were vague “history” for me as a kid (and seemed to have happened a long time ago), and yet my parents’ generation remembered them and understood them intimately. Similarly, neither of my parents can remember d-day (both were actually born that week), but to their parents that was a vivid memory. I see this happening now with students like Doug’s - or like my wife Eva’s, who are in kindergarden… most were in the womb on September 11th, 2001. How we tell this story will be every bit as important as what happened, if not more so - from the perspective of our students and children. [...] [...] Who Knows What Day It Is? (Via Borderland.) This post by Doug at Boderland is my favorite 9/11 post of the day. There are only ever going to be more and more young people who need to have these conversations and need to have these questions answered. I also wonder how relevant or immediate this day will be to young students. I know that they will live in the world forever changed by 9/11, but I also know how events like Martin Luther King Jr’s death, or JFKs death were vague “history” for me as a kid (and seemed to have happened a long time ago), and yet my parents’ generation remembered them and understood them intimately. Similarly, neither of my parents can remember d-day (both were actually born that week), but to their parents that was a vivid memory. I see this happening now with students like Doug’s - or like my wife Eva’s, who are in kindergarden… most were in the womb on September 11th, 2001. How we tell this story will be every bit as important as what happened, if not more so - from the perspective of our students and children. [...]

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