Comments on: Nurturing the 21st Century History Teacher

By: Thing 13 Online Conference | Web 2.0

Thing 13 Online Conference | Web 2.0 — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:32:20 +0000

[…] and I would love to do this whenever it was possible. I chose the online conference, “Nurturing the 21st Century History Teacher” because this is one of the subjects that I will be teaching next year, and I think that social […]

By: Nurturing Technology in the Classroom « Grant's House of Blogs

Nurturing Technology in the Classroom « Grant's House of Blogs — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:38:05 +0000

[…] session, Tom Daccord, an American High School History teacher, presented a session called “Nurturing the 21st Century History Teacher“. The conference blog describes Daccord’s presentation… Emerging technologies, a […]

By: mrscj

mrscj — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:48:34 +0000

I didn’t feel nurtured by this. I saw some neat implementation of technology for current events. Otherwise, the only history application was the day in the life of a hobo project. So where is the fundamental change in how technology will change teaching history? I love to implement tech tools, but when I have to share 3 computer labs with a campus of over 3000 students and a few mobile computer carts, what ends up happening is a few tech projects here and there. Go to any workplace, the employees don’t have to “sign-up” to use technology…they have dedicated resources. The 11th graders on our campus were all issued laptops for a 1:1 history program and the district created “canned” online/moodle curriculum for them. So it’s death by powerpoint with your own personal view screen. So until there is a true 1:1 situation where administrators trust teachers to use those resources responsibly, then I don’t see much opportunity for change.