Teaching in the 4th Information Age

Posted on September 18, 2012

By Mike Gwaltney

With my classroom teaching year beginning tomorrow, I’ve been reflecting yet again on how much has changed since I began my first day of teaching a little more than 20 years ago.

I plan to write frequently this year about how I teach history courses for this information age, not for the last. Hopefully, the writing will help me better understand what I do, and to learn how to do it better. I’m a much different teacher than I was when I started. For example, I used to do these 4 things consistently that I won’t do this year:

  1. I won’t give a classroom lecture.
  2. I won’t write notes on a board or in a PowerPoint that I expect students to copy verbatim.
  3. I won’t assign homework.
  4. I won’t give a multiple-choice exam.

How can I be a history teacher?

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