Over the past few weeks, I’ve had many small wins with the AHS team! Firstly, we were fortunate enough to identify the issue with uploading our podcast content. After reaching out to the team at George Mason University, they increased the upload size! This allowed us to upload WAV files while still considering how we’d…
Working with the Arlington Historical Society board has been a refreshing part of the DPH program. Although the skills I’ve learned throughout the program have been incredibly helpful in this internship, working with the AHS team to bring their vision to life has already been deeply rewarding. Currently, AHS is focused on bringing their website,…
I’d like to argue that the digital tools on platforms like Teaching History and Wikipedia have much to offer as it concerns teaching audiences about the past. For platforms like Wikipedia, a helpful ally of middle-school Chance, teaching students about the limitations and gaps in the information posted can help manage expectations for how one engages with…
My final project is in its final stages as I refine the lesson plan. The topic I’ve chosen explores dominant narratives in history and how the digital age has ushered in a new era of activism through discourse online and the preservation of activists’ voices. This lesson plan is geared towards high school seniors and/or…
Project Update: The concept for my final project is to encourage students to think like historians rather than observers. Currently, as I focus on how to use ArcGIS for this project, I’ve been gathering data and locations in preparation for mapping. However, last week’s class meeting and the module’s contents have forced me to reconsider…
As a history educator most concerned with Black diasporic histories, I find that One Night in Miami and Judas and the Black Messiah are the first films that come to mind for teaching students about historical inquiry. One Night in Miami is a fantastic subject for historical inquiry because it is a fictionalized account of a meeting between…
Film metadata: Hotel Rwanda, 2004 Producers: Terry George, A. Kitman Ho, Bridget Pickering, Sam Bhembe This film was accessed through Amazon’s “Prime Video” and is fictionalized yet based on the real-life accounts of the survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and of Paul Rusesabagina himself. Themes: The two main themes of the film could be…
I’ve been reading the biographies of Kwame Ture and Malcolm X as the foundations for my final project. Since I’ve decided to focus on a group of Black thinkers, I thought it might be best to look over the books I already own and see where they lead me. However, working on the fifth module…
A digital map in ArcGIS could be used to teach 6th-12th-grade students about history and historical thinking as they relate to radicalism and Black political thought. The potential of ArcGIS has influenced me to broaden my scope and focus on a group of Black radical thinkers to demonstrate how Black intellectual thought fits in. This…
The nation’s personal agendas and motivations, along with the standardization of history as a discipline in K-12 schools, have hindered the public’s understanding of the field. These external expectations have made teaching and learning more difficult across K-16 classrooms. However, the digital turn offers an opportunity to address and correct widespread misconceptions about history. Historically,…
