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The History of History Teaching
We had to choose to answer one of the three questions listed here: What elements of historical thinking have remained at the heart of history teaching over the decades? How have history teachers responded to technological change in the 20th and 21st centuries? How have external expectations constrained teaching and learning in history, and how might the digital turn disrupt those constraints? The one that I wish to answer is the third one (in bold above.) The external expectations that been placed on historical learning and teaching have hindered students in many ways. The SATs or SOLs or AP tests or any of the standardized tests have structured the historical…
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First Piece of the Puzzle
Some initial questions that I want to address in my final project (I may change these questions a bit later once I figure out my project or get more clarification on what/how it might look like.): Why did you choose the historical topic/question and why? What sources did you find to back up your argument?This question will help me understand why they chose the topic that they did and/or how they reached those historical conclusions about my topic. If the amount and availability of resources wasn’t an issue, what topic would you wish to explore more after going through my exhibit?To get an understanding of what they like so that…
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Thinking About Historical Thinking
The three questions that I hope to ask and then answer fully as the semester continues are: What you already know about this particular part in history? This question will be answered by my audience. What are you excited to learn more about? Anything that I can do to help you with that? This question will be answered by my audience. I still hope to gain some insight and various opinions as to what I can do to help. What are some of the ways that best help you learn new material?This question will help me understand how I could frame some of my content and/or questions to help my…
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Introduction to HIST 689
Hello, My name is Grace May and this is my third class within the Digital Public Humanities certificate at George Mason University. I’ve learned so far about how to build a website in Omeka and how to do a textual analysis on a historical subject using Voyant. What I hope to learn from this class is to perhaps not only learn history but also how to teach it and how to present it in a consumable format. This course is looking at it through the digital realm so I will want to learn how to present it through that than some of the more traditional methods. I hope to take…