Digital History

This article describe three models for developing skills that are necessary to understanding the significance of individual events that creates change on a large scale. This is done through the use of online resources and other technology based teaching aids. The three models are part of a larger technology based teaching project called the Digital History Reader (DHR). This project is a collaborative effort of Historians, educators, and tech specialists at Virginia Tech. Each module contains documents to give students real opinions by real people who lived during that time in which to put the textbook data in perspective.

I chose this article because it’s a technology based education aid that unlike many other devices is not designed to simply look good and frilly but has actual real value as a aid to normal everyday lectures. This is because this system is set up as a way for students to discover links between events and they wind up teaching themselves. All of the preliminary tests so far indicate that using this does increase test scores overall making this program highly valuable in an upper level history course. This is an A posting

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