Looking at approaches to teaching in the 21st century Are you dynamic, flexible, flipped, blended, adaptive, positive and creativity in your delivery?

1. History for the Future:
What Future for History?
Designing History Online
National History Teachers
Association Conference
2014
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2. What is the future for (history) teaching?
History textbooks ‘replaced’ by a ream of Internet
data and content delivered by presenters on Youtube

3. Unprecedented age in education?
Age of distraction, Age of personalisation
Age of overwhelming data, Age of need for discerning choices

4. How are we developing
Historical Literacy in the
21st Century?
1 making
2 sharing
3 sorting
4 listening

5. History teaching
as “making”
word walls
mind maps
poetry and letters
videos
websites
interviews
plays
models

6. History teaching as “sharing stories”
connecting through
conversations

7. History teaching as sorting
and sifting through the
data; gathering and
analysing the evidence

8. History teaching as listening
to each other, to
multiple narratives
and the open-endedness
of
stories

9. Curious about how we
have been designing and
engaging 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

10. Year 8 ... Making History
Historical Fiction powerful teaching/learning
strategy - personalized history because it
evoked emotional response
We asked students to also think about the
‘space’ they were using to connect with the
historical novel to enhance their metacognition

11. ‘space’
individual
physical
virtual
group
creative
collaborative
conversational
Students made websites using

12. All Quiet on Western Front
Historical Fiction to
promote strong
engagement with
period
“walking in shoes”
of particular
character

13. Re-Making History Creatively Together
History
and the
Electronic
Portfolio

14. 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

15. History teaching as sorting
Actively teaching how to
research so students don’t
get distracted or lost ....

16. 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

17. teach them to be
discerning and
narrow their
search results
Do your students know their country
code operators for research purposes?

18. explicit
teaching
about
primary
source
work on
Google
Designing online
learning involves
discussion about the
online research
process
What Google
operators are the
students using?
Are we teaching our
students about
Google Operators?

19. Are your
students
comparing
search
results?

20. Activity for workshop
type into Google
url:history causes world war 1
causes of world war 1
What is the difference in number of search results?
How do you believe the conversational space
might change in the classroom?

21. Are your students looking
to see what has been
made online ?
And by who?
Think of learning of
the future as being co-created
....

22. filetype:PPT

23. Define:
not news
not blogs
add a - sign

24. Google Tips on Slideshare

25. History as Listening to Others
1. 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
3. set timer to make sure we get a
chance to talk?

26. peer to peer
teaching

28. EdPuzzle and Adaptive Learning
Are you making students
active listeners to Youtube?
Are you monitoring their
engagement?
https://edpuzzle.com/media/541ffb
12e365772327de1cb9 Are you
implementing
adaptive learning?

29. Constructivist Approaches to history teaching
1. Students constructing meaning with
different spaces
2. Participatory environment & instant
feedback
3. Maintaining sense of narrative and
inquiry that connects the past, present
and future through our conversations
digital and face to face
4. Getting students to engage through
making, re-creating and publishing
work

30. The Future
John Kennedy parallax screens for learning
and teaching

31. Future of (history) teaching
dynamic
flexible
flipped
blended
adaptive/ (interactive)
exciting and positive
creative
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