Instructor
Philip Molebash, PhD
Office: NE-287
molebash@mail.sdsu.edu

Teaching California, U.S., and World History using Digital Archives

With an avalanche of primary source documents digitized and made freely available via the World Wide Web, historical inquiry, the process of interpreting history or the "doing of history," can become the rule rather than the exception in history classes. Learn how to get the most out of the web by involving your students in the "doing of history." Meets 4/2 and 4/9.

 

Overview

This course is designed to be practical, current, interesting, empowering and thought-provoking. It is built around active learning and collaborative thinking. When we're done, you'll have a clear understanding of how digital primary source archives can be incorporated into your teaching and you will have completed a lesson for using these archives in your own classes. In a sense, you will be "doing history" in this class.

Audience

This course is targeted at social studies teachers at the K-12 and college levels. Basic familiarity with computer and internet use is assumed.

Learning Outcomes

In this course you will learn how to

  • identify when digital primary source archives can be incorporated into your teaching;
  • make use of digital primary source archives for classroom instruction;
  • explain ways in which digital primary source archives can be integrated into coursework;
  • generate historical inquiry questions which in order to be answered could utilize digital primary source archives;
  • design a complete a lesson plan incorporating digital primary source archives.

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Course Outline

Session 1: April 2, 2005

Week-In-Between

Also: Draft some preliminary ideas for a lesson which attempts to answer an historical question(s) by using a digital primary source archive.

Session 2: October 23, 2004