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"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?")
Free
(mostly)
Engages students in new ways/multi-sensory
C3 Dimension 2 Social Science Skills
Brainstorming
...free
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