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Minnesota Historical Society- Using Technology to Reinvent Field Trips. Write one to two paragraphs answering these questions. How does this improves a child's learning experience? Would you use this method in your own classroom?>
History in Our hands is a program that the Minnesota Historical Society uses for kids who are on field trips. They give kids an ipod and uses them to scan a QR code and they learn about a historical figure. The point of the program is for students to learn and solve their problems by actually getting physically involved. After the students get all of their information, the society uploads it into a virtual backpack and when students get back to the classroom they open those backpacks and get access to all the information they just acquired. Another program that the society is involved in is History Live. It allow the museum to communicate with students around the world and to talk about history. This resources allows students to have access to the museum and they become physically involved with the person on the screen. This allows teachers to take their students to places without using a lot of money and it saves time. The key is real interaction. Students can't get this kind of quality with just reading a book. That is just boring. This kind of interaction gets students involved and interested in not only history but other subjects as well. We are in a world where students have never been without technology and this influence changes how they learn, think, and interact. History in Our Hands takes these digitalized students to the next level of learning.>
As a future history teacher, I believe this program is a great way to get students interested in history. For most students, it is difficult for them to be involved in history. Most believe it is boring. And it can be without the right kind of teacher. I plan on being that teacher who gets their students pumped about history and I plan on doing this by virtual field trips and programs like History in Our Hands. And what is so awesome about this program is that you can do it with any subject. This technology can take learning to a whole new level and for the success for our students, I believe we have no choice!
That sounds like a really cool hands on program! That definitely would have gotten me more interested in learning when I was in school. History was always so boring in middle school and in high school, my teachers were awesome. I learn better when the teacher is excited about the subject they're teaching. I hope you do get your students pumped about history! They would love it!
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