Tech Edge, Mobile Learning In The Classroom - Episode 44, Resources for African American History

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[00:00:00.343]Coming up on Mobile Learning in the Classroom,
[00:00:02.681]digital resources for African American history.
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[00:00:19.307]Hi my name is Guy Trainin and this is
[00:00:21.363]Mobile Learning in the Classroom from Tech EDGE,
[00:00:23.467]and today I want to talk about digital
[00:00:25.241]resources for African American history.
[00:00:27.694]I'm going to talk about web resources,
[00:00:30.202]some of them are available as apps,
[00:00:32.160]and I am going to use my iPads to show them,
[00:00:34.514]but you can use the computer just as well
[00:00:36.744]for all of these resources.
[00:00:38.492]So if they are available as apps,
[00:00:43.106]like the Doc app from the National Archives,
[00:00:46.108]they're still available also on their website.
[00:00:48.784]So you can use it one way or the other, both are fantastic.
[00:00:52.226]Let me start with history.com,
[00:00:54.667]this is from The History Channel,
[00:00:56.533]and if you do a short search, you can see that
[00:00:58.796]you can easily find the Civil Rights Movement,
[00:01:01.531]and that's a portion of African American history,
[00:01:03.556]it's not all of it, but it's definitely an era that
[00:01:06.083]we tend to focus on and that we have some established voices
[00:01:10.528]and leaders and also we have multimedia results.
[00:01:15.115]From eras before that we have very limited resources,
[00:01:18.499]most of them are text and picture.
[00:01:20.163]Here we also have a lot of sound, the speeches, video,
[00:01:24.142]we've got TV that was already recorded at that time,
[00:01:27.306]so the resources tend to be a lot richer,
[00:01:30.307]and you can see that there's an article,
[00:01:32.819]this is an article talking about new things
[00:01:35.218]to learn about the March on Washington,
[00:01:37.549]but again working with kids, sometimes we need
[00:01:39.339]the basic things before we move to advanced things,
[00:01:41.741]but you can also see that we can switch over
[00:01:45.318]and find videos, pictures, speeches,
[00:01:49.299]these are some of the videos that are available.
[00:01:52.331]Here is Rosa Parks, and it's a chance to really get to
[00:01:58.171]experience some of this first hand,
[00:02:01.131]and not just read about it.
[00:02:02.685]Kids tend to read about this era quite a bit,
[00:02:05.059]but then not really be exposed to what
[00:02:08.359]it looked and felt like and it's a great chance to do that.
[00:02:13.117]Again, I've talked about this, history.com actually has
[00:02:16.387]fantastic videos because they are not extensive,
[00:02:19.550]because they're only two minutes to four minutes long.
[00:02:23.461]It's excellent content, but again it is short,
[00:02:26.226]so if you want to integrate it into a longer lesson
[00:02:28.796]or part of a basket of resources,
[00:02:31.311]that's a resource that's readily available.
[00:02:33.959]That's history.com from History Channel,
[00:02:36.711]and what I love about this is
[00:02:38.316]History Channel has great content,
[00:02:40.203]but it's actually hard for us as classroom teachers
[00:02:42.467]to find it at the time we want, or to record a show here,
[00:02:45.567]it's all available, it's online or on their app
[00:02:49.021]and you can find it there.
[00:02:51.232]The second resource that I want to talk about
[00:02:53.114]is a resource that I've talked about before
[00:02:54.779]and that's Historypin.
[00:02:55.923]Historypin allowed a different organizations
[00:02:58.482]and individual to put photos and information online
[00:03:03.618]on a map-based interface.
[00:03:06.875]You can see where things happened and you can see photos,
[00:03:11.131]or other artifacts, from that time and place.
[00:03:14.441]This is the Martin Luther King assassination
[00:03:17.869]and these are the days just before, this is where the photos
[00:03:21.761]were taken right at the same location
[00:03:24.634]and this is a visit with president George Bush,
[00:03:28.126]obviously later, as a tribute.
[00:03:32.714]What you can see is this is a way to navigate
[00:03:36.845]and see the histories and their geographical locations
[00:03:40.618]and to do these searches and if you search by
[00:03:43.863]a specific word, you can find not just specific sites,
[00:03:46.840]but also tours that were constructed with that in mind.
[00:03:49.932]And actually the National Archives and specific museums
[00:03:53.057]created tours around the Civil Rights Era
[00:03:56.401]and around African American history,
[00:03:58.663]so this is a great way to experience some
[00:04:00.760]of these collections of media,
[00:04:04.465]within their geographic context.
[00:04:09.224]So it's not just a thing and a voice and a picture,
[00:04:14.383]but also the geography of where it happened,
[00:04:16.867]what is there now, and all of that.
[00:04:19.006]And the layers of years, here you can see
[00:04:21.315]that you've got pictures from the 1960s
[00:04:23.880]and then their later visits to honor that place,
[00:04:27.180]so that's a way to see how history also layers itself
[00:04:30.640]and how different people address that.
[00:04:33.209]So, this is Historypin.
[00:04:34.622]Historypin used to have an app,
[00:04:36.808]the app is not fully functional as I can figure right now,
[00:04:41.105]so I would highly advise to use
[00:04:44.253]the actual website to do that,
[00:04:46.595]and you can see the collections right here
[00:04:49.604]and it has the collections and also where it is
[00:04:53.853]and then it has some information about it
[00:04:57.568]and it can show it in modern days.
[00:05:00.787]This is what there is now and this
[00:05:02.350]is the original photo from then.
[00:05:04.947]So you can actually see the intersection
[00:05:09.579]of past and present, which is always fun to do.
[00:05:14.867]So this is Historypin.
[00:05:17.410]This app is from the National Archives,
[00:05:20.916]it's called DocsTeach, I've presented it before.
[00:05:24.208]I did a short search on African American History,
[00:05:27.923]and it's organized by era, this is the post-war era
[00:05:30.743]and what they have are specific activities around documents
[00:05:35.855]that are found in the National Archives,
[00:05:38.376]but were developed into fully fledged historical exercises.
[00:05:42.892]You can see for example, there's an activity around
[00:05:47.685]what happened in Selma, Alabama.
[00:05:51.458]When you press on that activity, you get the questions
[00:05:54.757]and access to the documents that you need
[00:05:57.522]to actually perform that investigation.
[00:06:02.973]The advantage here for us as teachers is this is
[00:06:05.460]already served and students are not randomly searching,
[00:06:08.276]but they're actually looking at original documents
[00:06:11.118]and doing original documents analysis,
[00:06:13.423]thinking like a historian, and that's really important.
[00:06:16.804]You can see that there is an introduction,
[00:06:20.149]then there are pictures, artifacts,
[00:06:22.868]and then you can actually see the
[00:06:26.438]photographs that were shot at that place,
[00:06:30.101]and then there are questions
[00:06:31.503]and inquiries that can be done with this,
[00:06:34.547]and those can be done on the devices and be emailed,
[00:06:37.171]or they can be done off the devices on a piece of paper,
[00:06:41.436]you can do it one way or the other.
[00:06:43.481]But again, you can explore these artifacts in detail
[00:06:47.574]and really get a sense of what happened that day
[00:06:51.515]and how we look at that period in history.
[00:06:56.722]This is what you can do when you want to look in detail,
[00:06:59.496]it takes a second to load but it's totally worth it,
[00:07:02.590]and this will allow you to look at the details
[00:07:04.993]of these photos and the different sources
[00:07:07.653]that they've got uploaded and zoom in on those
[00:07:11.941]and get a real sense of what the
[00:07:15.367]documentation is from that era.
[00:07:18.154]This is DocsTeach and it's a great app
[00:07:20.761]with pre-prepared sections, but you as a teacher,
[00:07:25.031]if you go through their website,
[00:07:26.815]can actually create your own activities
[00:07:28.551]and add them to the pool and use them.
[00:07:30.667]If you've got something specific you're looking for,
[00:07:33.456]by all means design your own and do that,
[00:07:37.066]they welcome that at the National Archives because
[00:07:40.798]they want teachers to use that, and to use that well.
[00:07:45.203]The last resource that I want to show today is
[00:07:48.641]a resource that is available online.
[00:07:53.061]This is from the National Museum
[00:07:56.017]of African American History and Culture,
[00:08:00.285]and it has a wonderful collection around different
[00:08:03.252]things around African American history and culture.
[00:08:05.934]The museum just opened and actually tickets were
[00:08:08.662]very hard to get in the first few months.
[00:08:11.278]It's getting easier right now,
[00:08:12.754]but definitely if you're far away from Washington, D.C.
[00:08:15.219]you're not very likely to take kids there,
[00:08:17.288]or at least often.
[00:08:21.248]What you can do is use their online collections,
[00:08:23.951]because they're parts of the Smithsonian series of museums
[00:08:28.074]you can actually use their tools very, very well.
[00:08:31.365]They've got some examples from other resources
[00:08:34.860]from the Smithsonian to build their ideas around
[00:08:37.989]and you can explore different things.
[00:08:40.148]For example, we can explore
[00:08:42.734]the collection around segregation,
[00:08:46.050]but we can explore, of course, slavery and other things.
[00:08:48.459]And what you're going to get, again,
[00:08:50.462]are lots of artifacts from the museum.
[00:08:53.260]These are sometimes physical artifacts,
[00:08:56.511]sometimes documents, photos that expose a different
[00:09:00.944]aspect of life for African Americans throughout the eras.
[00:09:04.667]So, we're not focused just on specific incidents,
[00:09:08.068]but actually can explore the larger cultural
[00:09:10.588]and historical context that everyday
[00:09:13.386]African Americans were working through.
[00:09:17.008]So, today on Mobile Learning in the Classroom
[00:09:19.516]we talked about multiple digital resources
[00:09:22.015]for exploring African American history,
[00:09:24.935]and I'll see you next time
[00:09:26.549]on Mobile Learning in the Classroom.
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