Digital History for a Digital Generation
Author: William Ardern Curriculum Coordinator MacKillop Catholic College Warnervale NSW
“Do not confine children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.”
- Chinese proverb
“Our children…are the latest model of human being. Looking at the world of children is not looking backward at our own past – it’s looking ahead. They are our evolutionary future.”
- Rushkoff (1999) Playing the Future. p.4
To put things into context
Who are the children of the digital age?Who are the children of the digital age?
MyPod Generation
N-Gen
e-Generation
Generation D
Generation V Loli-boomers
Generation M Millennials
InfluenceInfluence Baby BoomersBaby Boomers Generation XGeneration X Generation YGeneration Y
Role ModelsRole Models Men of Character Men & Women of Character
What is Character?
“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)
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.
InfluenceInfluence Baby BoomersBaby Boomers Generation XGeneration X Generation YGeneration Y
TelevisionTelevision I love Lucy Happy days Reality TV
InfluenceInfluence Baby BoomersBaby Boomers Generation XGeneration X Generation YGeneration Y
Musical IconsMusical Icons Elvis Presley Madonna Eminem
InfluenceInfluence Baby BoomersBaby Boomers Generation XGeneration X Generation YGeneration Y
Music MediumsMusic Mediums LP’s & singles Cassettes & CD’s MP3’s
InfluenceInfluence Baby BoomersBaby Boomers Generation XGeneration X Generation YGeneration Y
ComedyComedy The Goodies The Young Ones The Dudesons
InfluenceInfluence Baby BoomersBaby Boomers Generation XGeneration X Generation YGeneration Y
Computer Computer GamesGames
Pong Pacman Grand theft auto
InfluenceInfluence Baby BoomersBaby Boomers Generation XGeneration X Generation YGeneration Y
MoneyMoney Earn it It is not everything
Give it to me
InfluenceInfluence Baby BoomersBaby Boomers Generation XGeneration X Generation YGeneration Y
Loyalty to Loyalty to employeremployer
Work my way to the top
Short cut to the top
Give me Saturday night off or I quit
InfluenceInfluence Baby BoomersBaby Boomers Generation XGeneration X Generation YGeneration Y
Respecting your Respecting your elderselders
Automatic Is polite Whatever
InfluenceInfluence Baby BoomersBaby Boomers Generation XGeneration X Generation YGeneration Y
Meeting new Meeting new friendsfriends
Pen Pals Classifieds MySpace
InfluenceInfluence Baby BoomersBaby Boomers Generation XGeneration X Generation YGeneration Y
CommunicationCommunication Letters Phone SMS
InfluenceInfluence Baby BoomersBaby Boomers Generation XGeneration X Generation YGeneration Y
ChangeChange Resist it Accept it Want it
InfluenceInfluence Baby BoomersBaby Boomers Generation XGeneration X Generation YGeneration Y
TechnologyTechnology Ignorant of it Comfortable with it Masters of it
Life’s essentialsLife’s essentials
CommunicationCommunication
Methodology & PedagogyMethodology & Pedagogy
When I was taught history at school in the 1970’s, emphasis was placed upon….
- Date
- Place
- Event
- Historical facts
- Test
teacher centred
Julius Caesar invaded Britain in 48 BC
disengagementwrote learning
NCRELNCREL 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.
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.
…”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
“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
“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
“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
Digital HistoryA sample of topic areas
Digital History
NSW Board of Studies
Stage 4 History Syllabus
Norman conquest activity
Structure of feudal society – knights, church,
peasant
Life of a peasant – empathy task
Personalities: William I,
BraveheartArchitecture
- castles
e journal activities
Life in a peasant village video