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History for the Future: What Future for History?
National History Teachers Association Conference
[email protected]@tss.qld.edu.au
Big Data and Web 3.0The History textbooks ‘replaced’ by a ream of Internet data and content provided via any presenter on a You Tube, Teacher Tube, Vimeo channel
What future for (history) teaching?
Unprecedented age in education?
Age of distraction, Age of personalisationAge of overwhelming data, Age for discerning choices
How are we developing Historical Literacy in the 21st
Century?
1 making2 sharing3 sorting
4 listening
History teaching as “making”and representing viewpoints, events and recreating the past to help understand the present and make predictions for the future
History teaching as “sharing stories”
with a wider audience and in so doing making connections
History teaching as sorting and sifting through the data; gathering and analysing the evidence
History teaching as listening
to multiple narratives and the open-endedness of stories
Curious about engagement with history
in a digital world?
“Children don’t get ideas, they make ideas ... better learning will not come from finding better ways for the teacher to instruct but from giving the learner
better opportunities to construct.” Seymour Papert Maker Culture
Year 8 ... Making HistoryHistorical Fiction powerful teaching/learning strategy - it personalised history because it evoked emotional response
In this sense we asked students to also think about the ‘space’ they were using to connect with the historical novel to enhance their metacognition
‘space’ individualphysicalvirtualgroup
creativecollaborative
conversational
Students made websites using
Re-Making History Creatively Together
History and the Electronic Portfolio
All Quiet on Western Front
Historical Fiction to promote strong engagement with period“walking in shoes” of particular character
Year 10 History as Sharing Stories
Migrant Experiences Australian Curriculum History
Asked students to research a successful Australian migrant and write a script and create short video to tell their story
History teaching as sorting
Actively teaching how to research so students don’t get distracted or lost ....
How are your students thinking about sources?
When sourcing articles in Google do they use country codes eg site:sy arab spring
site:ir site:fr site:eg site:tn arab spring
filetype:PPT
And by who?
Are students looking to see what has been made?
Define:
not newsnot blogs
add a - sign
History as Listening to Others1. Use of discussion forums to gauge
if we are listening and interacting to develop a conversation
2. Use of programs like Edpuzzle and Zaption to gauge whether we are really listening and making meaning
https://edpuzzle.com/media/541ffb12e365772327de1cb93. set timer to make sure we get a
chance to talk?
Constructivist Approaches
1. Getting students constructing meaning with different spaces - physical and outdoors, introspective and conversational, digital and face to face
2. Participatory environment with instant feedback3. Helping maintain a sense of narrative and inquiry
that connects the past, present and future4. Getting students to engage through making, re-
creating and publishing work
John Kennedy parallax screens for learning and teaching
The Future