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Second Piece of the Puzzle
Two questions that I need to answer are: How will digital media and/or digital tools be important to teaching my target audience one of the essential lessons I’ll be focusing on in my project? The digital tools and media will be important to my final project because I need to have the ability to show videos and play audio recordings on it. I also need a view where my audience can create their artifact in piecemeal fashion and still save their work as they go along. I want my audience to be able to respond or react to the videos or other content that I add in a way that…
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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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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…