Tech Edge, Mobile Learning In The Classroom - Episode 35, National Archives
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- [00:00:00.619]Coming up on Mobile Learning in the Classroom.
- [00:00:02.237]A visit to the National Archives.
- [00:00:04.476](upbeat electronic music)
- [00:00:18.178]Hi, I'm Zoe Falls.
- [00:00:19.298]And I'm Guy Trainin.
- [00:00:20.474]And today on Mobile Learning in the Classroom,
- [00:00:22.554]we're looking at the National Archives.
- [00:00:24.929]And so, I love history.
- [00:00:26.895]Most people know that, and if you don't,
- [00:00:29.716]you just need to look at how many apps
- [00:00:31.713]about history we've looked at
- [00:00:33.334]over the last 200 episodes or so, and you will see.
- [00:00:36.858]But one of the things that I really love
- [00:00:40.070]and I love to show people, is the way the National Archives
- [00:00:43.296]have really developed their online platform,
- [00:00:46.935]and you can really search the archives in many ways
- [00:00:50.558]that helps education
- [00:00:52.996]on their website or on the app.
- [00:00:56.595]So they have an app called Docs Teach, which I love,
- [00:00:59.054]and I've talked about before,
- [00:01:00.316]and I'm gonna briefly show this time.
- [00:01:02.295]But I want to show to you the website,
- [00:01:04.496]because in the website, you can see immediately
- [00:01:07.410]that you can do a research on the records,
- [00:01:09.854]you can look at the veterans' service records,
- [00:01:12.795]especially you can do search of a
- [00:01:15.107]soldiers from before World War I by name,
- [00:01:17.214]you can look at people's records and all of that,
- [00:01:20.674]again, historically, not current members of the military,
- [00:01:24.575]and lots of teacher resources.
- [00:01:27.675]If we go to the teacher resources
- [00:01:29.318]we can find some fantastic things.
- [00:01:32.433]You've got things for History Day,
- [00:01:34.234]so you can see, if you are running History Day,
- [00:01:38.234]and kids are looking for resources,
- [00:01:40.637]here's a way to get a look at primary documents
- [00:01:44.614]and really investigate them and see the people and events,
- [00:01:47.375]and when we talk about primary documents,
- [00:01:50.477]and that's obvious now in the way we teach in school,
- [00:01:52.195]but we used to usually refer to texts,
- [00:01:54.353]which we are talking about photos, about movies,
- [00:01:57.451]about audio tapes, any kind of artifact
- [00:02:00.293]that are primary resources to understanding history.
- [00:02:04.113]You can look at distance learning programs
- [00:02:07.718]and you can look at public events around the country,
- [00:02:10.156]you can even have visits and all of that,
- [00:02:12.396]but really what's really important for me
- [00:02:14.498]is the fact that there are a lot of things
- [00:02:16.733]that are ready for teachers to use,
- [00:02:18.677]or, even better, for teachers to curate.
- [00:02:22.195]So one of the apps that just came out recently
- [00:02:24.395]is looking at supporting teachers
- [00:02:28.738]as they teach about World War I,
- [00:02:30.553]and there's a whole set of tools there
- [00:02:34.815]to help each teacher and each community
- [00:02:36.638]curate their own World War I set of photographs
- [00:02:40.429]and documents, and then you can use it with kids.
- [00:02:43.958]So we talk often about how do we want people to search,
- [00:02:47.656]and how do we want as teachers
- [00:02:49.692]to make sure that our students are not just drowning
- [00:02:51.571]because the archives are huge,
- [00:02:53.734]you can find almost anything.
- [00:02:55.471]And we do want our students to
- [00:02:56.973]kind of focus on something specific,
- [00:02:58.558]so one way is to curate your own show,
- [00:03:01.356]which, for me as a teacher,
- [00:03:03.097]that's probably the best way to do this
- [00:03:04.775]because I want to select the things we want to talk about,
- [00:03:07.716]and I also want to select something
- [00:03:09.396]that is relevant to the community I'm in.
- [00:03:11.480]So I want to talk about Nebraska when we're in Nebraska,
- [00:03:13.517]I want to talk about the people from Nebraska
- [00:03:16.498]who went to war as part of that discussion,
- [00:03:19.476]not only, but definitely want to have some local documents
- [00:03:21.879]that give a link more closely to students' lives.
- [00:03:25.420]And so that's the way to start using that.
- [00:03:29.515]The second one is something that is still in beta,
- [00:03:32.974]and that's History Hub.
- [00:03:34.540]And that's a way to crowd source ideas around history,
- [00:03:39.493]and really have people ask questions.
- [00:03:42.336]So you can see that people post events,
- [00:03:45.256]and they also ask questions,
- [00:03:48.559]like trying to find the passenger list for Port Plymouth.
- [00:03:52.059]Great way for kids and adults
- [00:03:56.436]to start interacting around history,
- [00:03:58.096]so I'm really excited about this History Hub,
- [00:04:00.197]and I really hope that it would catch on.
- [00:04:04.594]The other thing that teachers can use,
- [00:04:06.697]and that's, I think, fantastic, is the Cartoon Analysis, or,
- [00:04:10.258]there's a whole series of tools that are available as PDFs,
- [00:04:14.379]so you can download these
- [00:04:15.616]primary document analysis materials.
- [00:04:18.094]This is just, as an example, the Cartoon Analysis Worksheet,
- [00:04:22.018]but there's lots of them.
- [00:04:24.114]And that's a shortcut, is a shortcut in two ways.
- [00:04:26.972]One is you can print that out and just use it,
- [00:04:29.217]or you can actually use it as a live document,
- [00:04:32.578]so you can actually type in this document.
- [00:04:34.876]So students can do it and then save it.
- [00:04:37.257]It's a great way to.
- [00:04:40.658]And it looks like a great way to help
- [00:04:41.657]guide the students through,
- [00:04:43.151]how do you analyze a primary document?
- [00:04:45.534]Especially when they're newer to research,
- [00:04:48.874]and they're trying to gather those skills,
- [00:04:50.637]it seems more authentic than just
- [00:04:53.557]a lecture on the things you look for,
- [00:04:57.417]but they have that resource,
- [00:04:58.996]and then they can go to this document
- [00:05:02.169]that sort of guides them through
- [00:05:03.469]what they're trying to identify.
- [00:05:05.534]So, all of these document worksheets
- [00:05:07.635]are actually on a page that's called Special Topics,
- [00:05:11.110]so inside the big National Archives,
- [00:05:13.957]if you look for Special Topics,
- [00:05:15.251]you'll find they've got written documents, artifacts,
- [00:05:17.487]cartoons, maps, motion picture, photograph, et cetera.
- [00:05:20.726]So there's lots of those.
- [00:05:21.930]The other things that are showing up there
- [00:05:25.767]and which is really worth doing is,
- [00:05:27.589]you can look at eBooks, they've got a set of eBooks,
- [00:05:30.685]and I talk often about open education resources.
- [00:05:35.049]These are free.
- [00:05:36.047]These are high quality.
- [00:05:37.667]So if you want something about the Constitution,
- [00:05:39.646]the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation,
- [00:05:41.452]and more, it's available, and they keep growing these.
- [00:05:46.489]They've got some YouTube tutorials,
- [00:05:50.490]both for their topics and for the apps they have,
- [00:05:57.787]and you can also see that iTunes U
- [00:05:59.691]actually has some courses, so if you do want to use
- [00:06:02.849]for that students, or even for yourself,
- [00:06:05.468]there are some courses you can work through on iTunes
- [00:06:08.334]that are advanced look at all of these resources
- [00:06:12.751]that they have available.
- [00:06:14.714]Finally, one of my favorite history apps, Historypin,
- [00:06:18.214]you can activate a Historypin and then
- [00:06:21.233]you can see what historically happened there,
- [00:06:24.013]and more than that, how did it look at different eras,
- [00:06:28.016]so you can use photographs and other things
- [00:06:30.032]to kind of overlay the history of what it looked like
- [00:06:33.958]on the reality of where you're at,
- [00:06:36.235]which is a great way to think about it.
- [00:06:38.836]And they include tours, so if you are actually
- [00:06:41.516]visiting somewhere, including your own backyard,
- [00:06:46.192]so to speak, cities and areas around where you live,
- [00:06:50.025]it adds a whole layer of history
- [00:06:52.451]and all the resources right there in real time,
- [00:06:55.509]and when you go back to the classroom
- [00:06:57.995]and you talk about what you've seen
- [00:06:59.713]and what you haven't seen, and how does it connect.
- [00:07:02.053]So there's lots of opportunities to interact,
- [00:07:04.950]and lots of opportunities to do some of that work.
- [00:07:09.489]Let me just switch over to my iPad
- [00:07:11.811]and show you what Docs Teach looks like.
- [00:07:16.333]Docs Teach allows you to do two things.
- [00:07:17.771]As you can see, this is the main page.
- [00:07:19.406]It allows you to look, to just browse,
- [00:07:22.312]and you start eras or if your teacher created
- [00:07:25.372]their own Heron connection you will get a code
- [00:07:28.930]and then if you submit the code you will be able
- [00:07:32.233]to walk through that
- [00:07:36.012]design set of materials, but here's an example
- [00:07:42.450]of the Civil War and so here you can go
- [00:07:45.569]and look at different topics
- [00:07:47.386]during the Civil War and Reconstruction
- [00:07:49.005]and you can see that this is downloading a little bit slower
- [00:07:51.745]but it all has a lot of information there.
- [00:07:56.546]Here is the actual document
- [00:07:58.566]and then there's an activity that goes with it.
- [00:08:03.483]So you've got some interpreting data you can,
- [00:08:05.904]this is just the intro and this is the actual text
- [00:08:08.928]and of course you can make it bigger
- [00:08:10.683]and you can read the proclamation itself
- [00:08:13.305]and see what goes with it and then I can hide it again
- [00:08:18.367]and look at what to do when you're done
- [00:08:23.266]and here is again a worksheet.
- [00:08:26.002]Now again as a teacher you don't have to use it.
- [00:08:27.744]You can just have your students browse these documents
- [00:08:30.463]and enjoy them but I think that the advantage here
- [00:08:34.203]is that you can just use this activity
- [00:08:38.640]and just go for it and this is an open-ended response.
- [00:08:41.471]This is not restricting it too much
- [00:08:47.363]so you can ask a different question
- [00:08:48.367]and it does get to send an email as well with the answers
- [00:08:50.426]so you as a teacher can correct all of these answers
- [00:08:53.104]and again there's no login for students
- [00:08:55.401]so you can just go in the day you want to
- [00:08:58.085]and guide your students and do an activity
- [00:09:02.166]and move on or engage in much deeper conversations
- [00:09:04.906]and continuously use this.
- [00:09:07.367]I think, again, if you're thinking
- [00:09:09.101]about open educational resources the National Archives
- [00:09:12.783]have really, have a lot to offer if you're teaching history
- [00:09:17.003]at almost any grade.
- [00:09:18.745]Well and it's a great flipped classroom idea, too,
- [00:09:21.324]because they could go through and look at it
- [00:09:24.182]and do it at home and then you could use their responses
- [00:09:27.168]to guide whatever class discussion you had
- [00:09:31.527]to either clarify things,
- [00:09:34.006]take the discussion deeper, answer questions.
- [00:09:38.809]Alright, so today on Mobile Learning in the Classroom
- [00:09:41.671]we talked about the National Archives
- [00:09:43.446]and we'll see you next time.
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