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Complicating Students’ Historical Thinking Using Uncomplicated Technologies |
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Presented by: Dr. J. H. Bickford III, Eastern Illinois University |
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| To best challenge
students’ thinking, educators must find and/or create innovative ways to
stimulate enthusiasm. Diverse technologies elicit students' engagement and
offer learning opportunities if and only if they are efficient (as judged by
user-friendliness) and effective (as measured by their ability to rouse
students’ criticality and expressivity). This presentation will explore my
experiences as a middle school social studies teacher using PowerPoint (and
other “old” but effective and efficient technologies) in two creative ways.
Both methods enable students to express complex understandings about
historical, political, and current events using “old” technologies
inventively.
This presentation investigates how students’ original political cartoons and visual slide shows can positively impact students’ engagement, interpretational skills, criticality, expressivity, and the class’s discussions. Since students constructed and expressed interpretations of historical and contemporary events using technology, creativity, and historical understandings, they were “doing” history in ways similar to a political cartoonist, a movie producer, and a historian. |
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| Grade Level(s): 5-12, College, and Adult | Content Area(s): Social Science and Technology |
| Session: 1 or 2 | Room #: 305 |
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