Historical Thinking Matters
- Subject:
- Humanities, Social Sciences
- Institution Name:
- Center for History and New Media|School of Education, Stanford University
- Collection:
- Center for History and New Media
- Grade Level:
- Secondary, Post-secondary
- Grade Sub-Level:
- High School
- Grades:
- Grade 11, Grade 12
- Abstract:
For too many Americans, the history class in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (remember the teacher’s plaintive question, “anyone, anyone?”) is all too familiar. Our approach is meant to challenge this false and familiar image of history: understanding and reconstructing the past requires ways of thinking, reading, and questioning much more engaging and challenging than mere memorization.
Teaching in a way that differs from your own schooling experience is not necessarily easy to imagine, let alone execute. Especially given the many pressures and demands on teachers today. This part of the Historical Thinking Matters website is devoted to providing instructional resources for teacher educators who want to challenge these iconic pictures of history instruction and start preparing their students to teach for historical thinking.
- Course Type:
- Learning Module
- Languages:
- English
- Material Type:
- Activities and Labs, Lesson Plans, Readings, Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Media Format:
- Graphics/Photos, Text/HTML
- Conditions of Use:
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Custom Permissions
All of CHNM’s activities are for educational and non-commercial purposes and so the use of any copyrighted material by CHNM is restricted to educational and non-commercial purposes. CHNM will not make any copyrighted material commercially available without the written permission of the copyright holder. - Copyright Holder:
- Copyright 2008. Center for History and New Media.
Comments
Quality of Technological Interactivity: Limited (1)
There are so many options for students to use to help them answer the questions and it is unclear which order they should use and which they should prioritize: The video or the source opinions? In addition, it was a little difficult to find the actual questions to answer amidst the technology options for source material. There is also a requirement to register before being able to answer the questions. But the videos are well done.