I’m sitting in a classroom in our School of Public Policy today participating in our “Doing Digital History.” workshop. With me are eighteen other people all very interested in creating the next wave of digital history projects. These folks have been at it since Monday, but this is the first time I’ve been able to…
Whither Wiki?
So it’s come to this…Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikipedia, advises college students to avoid his creation. Before reading the article, check out Jeremy Boggs’ commentary on it and Roy Rosenzweig’s essay in the Journal of American History, “Can History Be Open Source?“. Finally, Scott McLemee’s take on Wikipedia is also worth perusing. Should teachers…
Please God, No More PowerPoint!
This past week I served as a mentor at the 2006 National CASTL Institute at Columbia College, Chicago. The focus of this year’s conference was Media Arts and New Literacies. The central feature of this conference is developing new scholars of teaching and learning and as part of that, 28 people from institutions around North…
What standardized testing is doing to history education
Primary and secondary education in the United States is largely in bed with the providers of standardized testing. Where people my age (don’t ask) only had to submit to the PSAT and the SAT, students in our schools today have to submit to an almost annual battery of tests. Because the results students achieve on…