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Wikipedia and the Malleable Past
I will focus on one of the two questions (highlighted in bold) below: What are the challenges we face as history educators with presenting the past in the digital world? How have digital tools made it easier to teach about and help our audience(s) engage with the past? As a caveat, I’m not claiming to be a history educator in the traditional sense of the word but in my taking this class and as a history major, I have realized some challenges in the historical digital world. Challenge number one is making the historical documents available to the public so that then said public can use them to their benefit.…
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Respond to Wineburg
After reading, Sam Wineburg’s “Why Historical Thinking is Not About History,” I was left with more questions than enough answers. Historians, students, and the public in general, needs to be aware of how to ask probing questions to understand the world around them. How can teachers/historians/digital public historians promote historical/critical thinking in the minds of their audience effectively is the important question. When Wineburg gave the example of a California school teachers giving an assignment where the students did their own research and not in-depth normal, scholarly research led to disastrous results. Without the right tools and knowing how and when to use them effectively for your audience becomes an…