ABSTRACT
This book explores the current use and potential of ICT in the secondary history curriculum, and offers sound theory and practical advice to help secondary history teachers use ICT effectively.
Key areas covered include:
- getting started in ICT and history
- short, medium and long-term planning
- using ICT to develop historical understanding and skills
- data handling in the history classroom
- ICT and maps
- integrating virtual resources with the real world of teaching and learning.
With contributions from leading academics and practitioners in history education, this book will be important reading for all secondary history teachers and trainee teachers, but will be of interest to upper primary school teachers too.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|14 pages
The use of ICT for teaching history: slow growth, some green shoots
Findings of HMI inspection, 1999–2001
chapter 3|57 pages
The forgotten games kit
Putting historical thinking first in long-, medium- and short-term planning
chapter 4|25 pages
Building learning packages
Integrating virtual resources with the real world of teaching and learning
chapter 8|33 pages
What do they do with the information?
Working towards genuine interactivity with history and ICT
