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Are you an educator, researcher, or scholar that is trying to create and promote #history content through social media? If so, join us April 11, at 8pm (est) to learn tips and tricks on how to increase your reach from historian @PhdRachel! This will be hosted by @KeriLeighMerrit
Dr. Gunter has grown a significant social media following (especially on #TikTok) by posting #historical #content. Despite its faults, #socialmedia can be a fantastic medium to help reach students and the public.
#historyteacher #historycontent #historyeducation #educator
#historyteacher #historycontent #historyeducation #educator
If you want to check out her TikTok channel before the event, you can do so at this link on your desktop or on the mobile ap:
tiktok.com/@phdrachel
tiktok.com/@phdrachel
A few thoughts about the recent article "Teaching History Is Hard: How to invite students to think for themselves" by Edward Ayers medium.com/new-american-h… that was also featured in the @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/education/2020…
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As pointed out by @samwineburg in the opening chapter of Why Learn History amazon.ca/Learn-History-… anxiety in the US over students' lack of knowledge of US history (as revealed by national tests like the NAEP and its predecessors) has been ongoing for more than a century.
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The NAEP history test has been criticized by history educators for many reasons.
Shuttleworth and Patterson (2019) criticized the NAEP for using misleading achievement level terms, which led to negative cross-partisan media reports
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
Shuttleworth and Patterson (2019) criticized the NAEP for using misleading achievement level terms, which led to negative cross-partisan media reports
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
