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  • Clicking is Learning? Musings on Crafting a Holistic Digital History Pedagogy

    […] and other learners employing the use of digital resources and tools without fully possessing those skills for assessment and contextualization. To be frank, the need for digital literacy training within and outside the academy grows with each technological development. Defining digital literacy has multiple meanings and objectives. Generally, digital literacy is a concept that […]

  • Around the Field August 22, 2018

    […] for conference submissions; the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums seeks to award Graduate Students and Emerging Museum Professionals; The National Humanities Center is offering an online course on Digital Literacy in the Classroom. ANNOUNCEMENTS Transcribe-a-thon: USS Jeanette Logbooks with the National Archives – Aug 23, 2018, Washington, DC, US The Association for Computers and the Humanities […]

  • Generative AI and historical authority

    […] a new paradigm is emerging for information-gathering and transmission. This has not gone unnoticed by prominent Wikipedians. In turn, this new paradigm poses a problem for digital literacy, particularly in the area of evaluating textual authority and understanding historical epistemology, especially given people’s habits of trust in digital environments. Illustration by Mohammad Assan (2021). […]

  • Digital Sandbox: Building a community of digital humanists

    […] actively “preparing their students to create or author digital history or new media resources.” In a recent History@Work post, Robert Weyeneth expounded upon this lack of digital literacy among graduate students as just one part of a “perfect storm” that threatens the field of public history. The concerns he expresses are legitimate. As graduate […]

  • Audience analysis and the role of the digital in community engagement

    […] edge of the city. Our digitally led engagement approach with this group, and many similar groups we encountered over the course of our outreach, revealed that digital literacy barriers, as well as a lack of resources and time, will limit participation in such projects. Yet this group also demonstrated that a simpler use of […]

  • What’s next for AI and public history? You tell us!

    […] necessary. What has lasted from this era of intense focus on the “digital” is a set of increased expectations around content accessibility and an understanding that historical literacy requires more attention to authenticity, sourcing, and iteration than it did before. In a technological era shaped by AI tools, these expectations will remain. However, public […]

  • Let them be historians: public history with Fairfax High School and the DAR Museum

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    […] other. By engaging students in historical research and helping them create final products of which they can be proud, students collaborate, engage with historiography, and learn historical literacy, making them better consumers of history and information. In other words . . .  Let them be historians. That’s what public history is all about. ~Michelle […]

  • Professional opportunities July 21, 2015

    […] calls for action from the National Coalition for History – Librarian of Congress retires, new NEH grant programs on “Dialogues on the Experience of War” and “ Literacy and Engagement with Historical Records,” more PUB: Free access to “The History of America in 100 Documents” from Adam Matthew Digital DEADLINE: July 31, 2015 PUB: […]

  • Place-based epistemology: This is your brain on historic sites

    […] appreciating history in place requires background knowledge, professional expertise, formally recognized sites–or all three.  Architectural historians, cultural geographers, folklorists, and others can help us all cultivate “landscape literacy” so that we can recognize the stories all around us in our everyday lives. ~ Michelle McClellan is an Assistant Professor of History at the University […]

  • Making home front connections

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    […] Berry, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. She teaches future history educators with a focus on the literacy practices necessary to engage young people in the discipline. ~Suzanne Fischer is an independent interpretive planner and exhibit developer based in Lansing, Michigan. Reach her at […]