{"id":584,"date":"2016-04-05T07:13:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T11:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kmacindo.org\/?p=131"},"modified":"2016-04-05T07:13:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T11:13:13","slug":"impact-of-digital-history-on-historians-and-on-the-practice-of-history-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/adh\/impact-of-digital-history-on-historians-and-on-the-practice-of-history-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of Digital History on Historians and on the Practice of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The first article I read was \u201cThe Digital History Reader: Teaching Resources for United States and European History\u201d by E. Thomas Ewing and Robert P. Stephens.\u00a0 After I saw \u201cteaching resources\u201d in the title, I knew I needed to read this piece.\u00a0 The reader itself is a group effort, which historians, secondary educators, and education technologists collaborated on in order to help universities teach students historical critical thinking skills, even in large classroom settings.\u00a0 The book is inquiry-based, and each section focuses on a central question that can be answered by analyzing the attached set of primary sources.\u00a0 These sources reprint copies of things such as photographs and speeches, but also include links to other information such as songs and video clips.\u00a0 There is also a resource section, which provides students with more sources to look at to learn more about a given topic.\u00a0 After reading this article, I felt disappointed I had never used this in my college classes.\u00a0 As a future teacher, it would have been beneficial to receive additional training with primary sources before I have to teach it to my students.\u00a0 But, I can still get a copy of this reader to add to my teaching repertoire, and this book mirrors an emerging trend in the field of education, which is the Inquiry Design Model (IDM), so I think it is still relevant for my purposes, even though this article was published in 2007.\u00a0 Another reason I like this reader is because it already provides the sources so educators do not have to go hunting for things.\u00a0 In Dr. McClurken\u2019s article, he said that many times educators and students will spend hours searching for appropriate, accurate, and reliable primary source material online, so this reader will help decrease the time spent searching and increase the time spent actually working with the documents.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The second article I read was \u201cIs (Digital) History More than an Argument about the Past?\u201d by Sherman Dorn.\u00a0 Dorn states that digital history has challenged traditional history in the sense that research as well as publication norms have changed.\u00a0 Physically visiting a library is no longer the primary way that historians do research because there are plentiful electronic resources, such as those housed in online databases.\u00a0 Furthermore, because many people, not just professional historians, can publish their work online, the prestige of university presses has somewhat eroded.\u00a0 However, digital history also has its advantages.\u00a0 The one that stood out most to me was the ability to engage the public in the process of history.\u00a0 As Dorn points out, history is messy and even though an author may finish with an argument, that argument is never truly complete and is always changeable as new evidence is uncovered.\u00a0 By publicizing this process, historians can show how subjective the discipline is.\u00a0 To accomplish this task and to make historical projects more accessible, Dorn lists several resources historians can use.\u00a0 Is there a place to find historical works in progress as examples for my future students?\u00a0 I think this would be beneficial to share with them because before I began taking classes for my history major, I never realized how extensive a research project could be, and as such did not have as much appreciation for the subject as I do now.\u00a0 I suppose a somewhat acceptable variation of an actual historical research project could be Wikipedia because the pages are constantly being written and 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