Connecting the dots: History teaching in the 21st century classroom – juggling reason, technology and multi-media in the world of the young technophile.
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: This article will focus on harnessing the latest in multi-media and technological \ngadgetry in the modern history classroom. Teenagers find themselves at the cutting \nedge of the world of “bits and bytes”, social media and a global network of \nknowledge. It is at that point that the history teacher needs to meet them and help \nthem to engage with the past. A new horizon has opened up for the modern history \nteacher who, as a student of change can pass on the skills of change management. \nLooking into the past, the dots can be connected and scenario planning for \nthe future can begin. In the history classroom, which is by its very nature interdisciplinary \n(because history is all about the story of what people do), various fields \nof study and kinds of reasoning meet. \nThe modern history classroom should be relevant to teenagers navigating their \nway through a rapidly changing world which has been shrunk by technology and \nin which there has been an explosion of knowledge. It is the history teacher who \ncan put that knowledge to work, if he/she meets the teenager at the intersection \nof technology and of the past. Knowledge alone is of little use if not tempered by \nwisdom, and it is the historian who can apply “reason” to snippets of information. \nIn the 21st Century the history teacher must perform a delicate balancing act: \nreason, technology and the multi-media world of the young technophile must be \njuggled with consummate skill.
Author: Haupt, Paul M
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W151751680