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From www.youtube.com - February 28, 2016 5:29 PM

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Link place and time with History in Motion. I like how this technology helps connect past events to places.

Paul B.'s curator insight, May 7, 2017 9:47 PM

"create share explore" "learn best by doing" I think this takes ICT in history from the SA, to the MR. (world-wide) REsearching, networking, visualising, creating. This sort of resource makes history modern (!?)

Teaching history with ICT

What, why and how primary teachers can use technology to develop historical understanding in their classroom

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From voicethread.com - September 26, 2012 2:19 AM

Education Creations's curator insight, June 5, 2014 9:05 PM

Use Voicethread and historical photographs to create digital historical narratives. Much more engaging than the written version.

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From digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu - August 6, 2019 11:30 PM

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Information and resources about digital storytelling.

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From time.graphics - October 15, 2018 9:49 PM

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Timelines are a way to organise historical information. However, dates alone do not allow students to vlsualise the time being referred to. TimeGraphics is a useful tool to help students associate their visual images of history with the corresponding dates. Timelines should be comparative to help students see what life was life for a range of people at a given time.

Understanding historical time includes two important aspects: 1) chronology which is being able to order moments in time; and 2) being able to match moments in time to specific dates. Research suggests children find it easier to sequence historical pictures than assign dates or names to historical periods (Barton, 1994,2002; Barton and Levstik, 1996).

As children get older, they become better at ordering historical pictures on the basis of clues in technology, fashion and social roles. Primary children know what dates sound like and usually know what the current year is, but they find it difficult to associate periods in history with specific years.

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ICT approaches to timelines

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From www.abc.net.au - August 21, 2017 8:50 PM

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From beyond1914.sydney.edu.au - July 26, 2017 8:37 PM

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Beyond 1914 — The University of Sydney and the Great War is an extensive, searchable database of biographies and archival information about members of the University community involved in the First World War.

Built on the legacy of information provided to the University between 1915 and 1938 by more than 2000 former staff, students, graduates and their families (later published in the University’s Book of Remembrance), Beyond 1914 features insights into the lives of these men and women before, during and after the war.

This short film takes you behind-the-scenes at the University Archives. It explains how the Book of Remembrance was created back in 1939 and reveals just a handful of the thousands of stories that can now be found on Beyond 1914.

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From www.canadianmysteries.ca - December 6, 2016 8:03 PM

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This excellent approach to historical inquiry centres around mysteries in Canada. Use the ideas in the website and adapt for Australian topics.

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From teachinghistory.org - August 25, 2014 10:22 PM

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This video captures how a Year 1 teacher scaffolds the learning experiences for her students before, during and after a visit to a national memorial.

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From www.google.com - April 24, 2016 12:55 AM

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Use Google’s World Wonders Project to bring to situate events in place and time. Through Street View technology, this resource can be used to investigate world heritage sites and significant events.

Paul B.'s curator insight, May 7, 2017 8:11 PM

Letting students search and find their own resources with a few tips from the teacher will lead them down the rabbit hole of amazing on-line resources. Google alone has amazing stuff.

Nicholas Young's comment, May 15, 2017 8:33 AM

Such great idea to incorporate ICT with student learning. The students can dictate their own learning by the educator guiding them the entire way.

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From www.classtools.net - March 13, 2016 11:33 PM

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From www.historyinmotion.org - February 28, 2016 5:34 PM

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This technology is a useful tool to help primary students make connections to past events and places. Create historical scenarios, animate events and communicate using History in Motion.

Zara Radley's curator insight, May 31, 2021 4:33 AM

Another wonderful multimedia tool for presenting information for easy understanding in class. This one is very specific to history!

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From www.youtube.com - February 28, 2016 5:29 PM

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Link place and time with History in Motion. I like how this technology helps connect past events to places.

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From timeglider.com - November 16, 2015 10:34 PM

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While timelines play a vital role in organising and representing historical time, primary aged children make sense of a timeline if they can make connections to their prior knowledge.

Design learning activities that involve making comparisons between then and now. Start with making connections with the material or social aspects of life (e.g. school, clothes, toys, transport) in the past.

According to Levstik and Barton (2005), understanding historical time involves:

being able to order moments in time
being able to match moments in time to specific dates

Research shows that children are better at sequencing historical periods (e.g. convict era, colonial Australia) than assigning dates or names to those periods. Dates often don't allow students to visualise

the time being referred to. As such, teachers can facilitate learning by helping students visualise images of history with the corresponding dates. Help students make distinctions between broad categories of time (close to now, a long time ago, in the 1800s etc).

Maree Whiteley's comment, November 16, 2015 10:40 PM

Never tire of reading your (well-researched) insights, Kate!

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From www.makeuseof.com - September 14, 2015 9:28 PM

Armando's curator insight, September 13, 2015 6:22 AM

5 Utterly Fascinating History Education Resources

Peter Balanck's curator insight, September 13, 2015 7:31 AM

The map showing different periods in history is really useful...

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From stories.umbc.edu - August 12, 2015 2:56 AM

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From creativeeducator.tech4learning.com - July 28, 2015 10:02 PM

Zara Radley's curator insight, May 31, 2021 4:35 AM

Great insight into digital storytelling as a tool and how it can transform the classroom.

Joel's curator insight, May 31, 2021 10:49 PM

Explains how digital tools can be used to create powerful, authentic stories.

I can see this being useful in the English classroom, where students may need a more personalised interpretation of the themes of a challenging text. By using digital storytelling they can transplant the themes of the text to their own experiences, hopefully gaining a better understanding of the text along the way.

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From courseweb.lis.illinois.edu - July 27, 2015 6:31 AM

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From www.schrockguide.net - May 7, 2015 10:45 PM

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There are many affordances for QR codes in history. Pose an historical inquiry question and get students to gather clues (evidence) using primary sources embedded with a QR code at a museum, local community, school etc. Or, get primary students to create their own QR codes for artefacts. This could engage students in historical inquiry and the analysis and use of primary and secondary sources.

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From www.middleweb.com - May 5, 2015 9:33 PM

Maree Whiteley's curator insight, May 5, 2015 5:46 AM

Inquiry learning in action...

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From digitales.us - May 5, 2015 9:22 PM

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From www.weareteachers.com - March 11, 2015 10:39 PM

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How would a famous person in history use instagram?

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How would a famous person in history would use instagram?

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From www.clarisketch.com - March 1, 2015 8:04 PM

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The free app, Clarisketch can be used by primary students when they are examining and analysing historical artefacts. The app allows users to take a picture, highlight the details, comment then share with others via email, facebook or google plus.

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From web.tech4learning.com - February 3, 2015 5:41 PM

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Practical tips and resources including lesson plans using digital stories in the classroom.

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From www.bbc.co.uk - September 12, 2014 2:06 AM

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This interactive game helps students develop an understanding of evidence (a concept addressed in the new Australian Curriculum:history). It requires the analysis of both primary and secondary sources to answer the question of inquiry "how did this man die?"

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From storycenter.org - October 20, 2014 2:31 AM

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Digital stories can mirror the discipline of history through the process and product of what and how they are created.

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From www.tellingstories.org - October 15, 2014 7:51 PM

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'Telling their Stories' is an oral history archives project based in San Francisco. The site includes videos of the first hand accounts of people who witnessed a range of significant events and people.

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My background is in primary teaching but a recent shift to higher education has ignited a passion for research. I love thinking about how people learn and the role that technology might play in this. I'm very interested in historical thinking in K-6.