CISE 599
REDISCOVERING HISTORY THROUGH MEDIA EDUCATION:
TEACHING HISTORY BY MAKING IT.
Professors Melda Yildiz and Burton Weltman
OVERVIEW
The purpose of this course is to help you develop strategies and skills for
incorporating on-line resources and other technologies into your social studies
teaching. The techniques dealt with in the course can be used to teach almost
any subject in a variety of ways but the course will focus on ways of teaching
history with primary documents and current events. We will experiment with ways
of using technologies to relate the past to the present and thereby make history
a more relevant subject for your students and a subject of critical thinking
for them.
Your work in this course will focus on developing materials and methods for
a history unit that you can teach in your classes. You will choose a historical
subject, time period and theme, and identify a current social issue to which
you can relate the historical subject. You will then develop on-line resources
and other tools to help teach the unit. You will leave the course both with
additional tools and skills and with a unit of materials that you can use in
your classes.
The course will be taught primarily on-line. There will be four face-to-face
meetings of the class, two during the first two weeks of the semester, one in
the middle of the semester and one at the end of the semester.