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Historical Inquiry & Digital Literacy

"The Lecture is not the proper vehicle for conveying elementary knowledge of history. Experience often shows that courses of lectures that have been taken with interest and are recalled with pleasure, have left little behind them save mistaken notions and vague ideas."

-- B.A. Hinsdale, How to Teach and Study History

"If we are going to create rich digital media experiences for our students, if we are going to teach them how to be historians in this digital age -- or, at the least we are going to teach them how to think historically using digital media as well as old-fashioned analog resources -- then we need to be much more specific about what it is we mean when we say 'historical thinking'."

-- T. Mills Kelly, Teaching History in the Digital Age

Digital History is...

...an opportunity to re-think how we teach history, and how students can learn in new ways. It is not a solution, or "fix-it" approach, nor will it automatically engage students. Like any lesson, careful thought is required ("Why am I using this technology?")

Start Small

Free

(mostly)

Engages students in new ways/multi-sensory

Final Thoughts

C3 Dimension 2 Social Science Skills

Presentation

Production

Activities & Videos

Brainstorming

Communication

Digital history can be ...

...free

...transformative, or can simply offer a new approach

Look for Open Access/ Open Source Tools

The results can radically transform your teaching, enhance student learning...or at least "fine-tune" what already works well in your classroom

Why? Digital tools can help promote or foster:

Authentic learning

...a great pay-off

Engaged students who are not just "on-task"

Remember...

Ground technology in history objectives & the ability to "do" history in sound ways.

Voluntary learning outside the classroom

Take steps first

small

Collaboration...for students and teachers

Tech-savvy = Tech-literate

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