Photographing History: Archiving with AppsAuthor Cheryl Davis
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One Best Thing is a collection of books created by Apple Distinguished Educators that explain how you can use Apple technology in the classroom to enhance learning. This week I read the One Best Thing iBook called Photographing History; Archiving with Apps by Cheryl Davis. Cheryl is a technology specialist at a high school district. She works closely with teachers within the district to help incorporate technology into their lessons. In this iBook she specifically talks about using technology in a history classroom. An example she talks about in this book is using the iPad or iPhone to take photos around your community. If the teacher were teaching a lesson over the new deal the students could look up buildings in their community that the new deal helped provide and then go take a photo of that building. The students can then archive there photos in iBooks or a blog. Doing this preserves the photos students have taken. This also gives the students responsibility for their own learning, they themselves become the primary source of that photo. Cheryl talks about how she has a passion for primary sources. And by incorporating technology, archiving, and primary sources the students gain so much more out of the lesson.
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I could see myself using this in the elementary age level as well not just high school. I could see myself having the students take photos of themselves and writing a short biograoghy about them. The students being the primary source. Another way is to have students take photos of old buildings around the community and do some research about that particular building. When it was built, by who, and for what purpose. This will also help the students connect their learning back to the community, helping to make it meaningful to them.
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