Digital History for a Digital Generation

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Digital History for a Digital Generation

• Author William Ardern
• Curriculum Coordinator
• MacKillop Catholic
  College Warnervale NSW

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Do not confine children to your own learning,
for they were born in another time. - Chinese
proverb
To put things into context
Our childrenare the latest model of human
being. Looking at the world of children is not
looking backward at our own past its looking
ahead. They are our evolutionary future. -
Rushkoff (1999) Playing the Future. p.4
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Who are the children of the digital age?
MyPod Generation N-Gen
e-Generation Generation D
Generation V
Loli-boomers
Generation M

Millennials
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Recent research suggests that most variance in
performance between students is actually
explained by differences between classes, rather
that schools. The suggestion is that it is
teachers, not schools, that make the difference
in student learning. Dr. Wayne Sawyer. UWS
Research on HSC Successes (2002)
Influence Baby Boomers Generation X Generation Y
Role Models Men of Character Men Women of Character What is Character?
An effective classroom is based on the
development of a positive relationship between
teacher and students. As the majority of
teachers are from a previous generation, it is
essential that they develop an awareness towards
the values and aspirations of the generation that
they attempt to teach.
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Influence Baby Boomers Generation X Generation Y
Television I love Lucy Happy days Reality TV
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Influence Baby Boomers Generation X Generation Y
Musical Icons Elvis Presley Madonna Eminem
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Influence Baby Boomers Generation X Generation Y
Music Mediums LPs singles Cassettes CDs MP3s
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Influence Baby Boomers Generation X Generation Y
Comedy The Goodies The Young Ones The Dudesons
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Influence Baby Boomers Generation X Generation Y
Computer Games Pong Pacman Grand theft auto
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Influence Baby Boomers Generation X Generation Y
Money Earn it It is not everything Give it to me
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Influence Baby Boomers Generation X Generation Y
Loyalty to employer Work my way to the top Short cut to the top Give me Saturday night off or I quit
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Influence Baby Boomers Generation X Generation Y
Respecting your elders Automatic Is polite Whatever
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Influence Baby Boomers Generation X Generation Y
Meeting new friends Pen Pals Classifieds MySpace
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Influence Baby Boomers Generation X Generation Y
Communication Letters Phone SMS
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Influence Baby Boomers Generation X Generation Y
Change Resist it Accept it Want it
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Influence Baby Boomers Generation X Generation Y
Technology Ignorant of it Comfortable with it Masters of it
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Lifes essentials
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Communication
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Methodology Pedagogy
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When I was taught history at school in the
1970s, emphasis was placed upon.

• - Date
• - Place
• - Event
• - Historical facts
• - Test

Julius Caesar invaded Britain in 48 BC
teacher centred
wrote learning
disengagement
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NCREL www.ncrel.org The North Central
Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) is a
nonprofit organisation that is dedicated to
helping schools and the students they serve reach
their full potential.
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Our children live in a global, digital world
a world transformed by technology and
human ingenuity.
enGauge 21st Century Skills provides a framework
and platform for educators do adapt the
curriculum to suite the learning styles for the
children of the digital Age. The enGauge 21st
Century Skills are a bridge to authentic and
intellectually challenging work for students.
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the ability to use digital technology,
communications tools, and networks to access
manage, integrate , evaluate and create
information in order to function in a knowledge
society. Communication Technologies (ITC)
Literacy panel. (2002). Digital Transformations
A framework for ICT Literacy. Princeton NJ
Source Jeremy Nightingale
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In effect, because technology makes the simple
tasks easier, it places a greater burden on
higher-level skills. Communication Technologies
(ITC) Literacy panel. (2002). Digital
Transformations A framework for ICT Literacy.
Princeton NJ
Castle Reconnaissance
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Information communications technologies are
raising the bar on the competencies needed to
succeed in the 21st century. 21st Century
Literacy Summit. (2002,). 21st Century literacy
in a convergent media world. p.6
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We are living in a new economy powered by
technology, fueled by information, and driven by
knowledge. U.S. Department of Labor. (1999).
Futurework Trends and challenges for work in the
21st Century. Washington, DC. P.1
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Digital History

• A sample of topic areas

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Digital History
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NSW Board of Studies Stage 4 History Syllabus
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Norman conquest activity
Structure of feudal society knights, church,
peasant
Life of a peasant empathy task
e journal activities
Personalities William I, Braveheart
Life in a peasant village video
Architecture - castles
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