Book: "Teaching History in the Digital Age", T. Mills Kelly

Previously posted in the Google Plus community for FutureLearn’s “Web Science: How the Web is Changing the World” course.

 

Stumbled over this book whilst rabbit trailing on week 4 ...

“Although many humanities scholars have been talking and writing about the transition to the digital age for more than a decade, only in the last few years have we seen a convergence of the factors that make this transition possible: the spread of sufficient infrastructure on campuses, the creation of truly massive databases of humanities content, and a generation of students that has never known a world without easy Internet access. Teaching History in the Digital Age serves as a guide for practitioners on how to fruitfully employ the transformative changes of digital media in the research, writing, and teaching of history. T. Mills Kelly synthesizes more than two decades of research in digital history, offering practical advice on how to make best use of the results of this synthesis in the classroom and new ways of thinking about pedagogy in the digital humanities.”
(from the publisher's book page)

Fulltext of the book

Author bio:

"Professor Kelly is a specialist in the scholarship of teaching and learning in history. His most recent book, Teaching History in the Digital Age was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2013. He is also the author of more than a dozen articles on the intersection of historical pedagogy and digital humanities."
(from the author's George Mason University faculty page)

(response to 4.1: Opening conversation: democracy)

 

And as I was reposting the above, I stumbled over the author’s blog post “Maps, Walls, and Digital Public History”:

This coming fall I’m teaching a new course: History of the Appalachian Trail. As envisioned, the class is going to be many things at once (which is likely a structural problem). It is a conventional history of one of America’s longest national parks, it is a chance to introduce students to the basics of digital public history, and it is a chance for me to connect my avocation (long distance backpacking) with my vocation (educator, historian).

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