Discovery Education Speakers Bureau
Supporting the most effective use of technology in classrooms and schools
Supporting the most effective use of technology in classrooms and schools
This session compares and contrasts the 19th- and 20th-centuries' traditional way of teaching history and geography with our 21st-century digital approach. Taking themes and regions from currently adopted textbooks, the session will examine just how digital resources can place students in the London tunnels of World War II during the blitz, can put them in the California sun with Cesar Chavez and the migrant workers, can allow them to feel the elation Henry "Box" Brown felt when he arrived in Philadelphia a free man and no longer the slave in the box. In this same session, teachers will understand that because history is organic and protean, students must know what is happening now and how the past informs their present.