Author: Andreas Frings

Andreas Frings · Geschichtswissenschaftsdidaktik

09/16/2024

Understanding the “New and Deeper Perspective” of a History Course: Digital Word Clouds and Student Self-Reflection

Can digital tools help students reflect on the knowledge and skills they have learned throughout a history course? This blog post argues “yes” and proceeds to explain how Mentimeter and a double use of its responsive word cloud function can encourage retrospective and reflexive processes among undergraduate history students. Maja…

Andreas Frings · Geschichtswissenschaftsdidaktik

05/16/2024

The future of teaching digital public history

In the following text, Mills Kelly (George Mason University; currently Fulbright Scholar at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz) is going to discuss the benefits and opportunities of digital public history (DPH) courses. The author is reflecting on his experience teaching DPH courses and how they offer students a wide range of…

Andreas Frings · Geschichtswissenschaftsdidaktik

03/21/2023

My Historical Backpack – An Exercise in Teacher Education

Since 2016, the teaching exercise My Historical Backpack has been established as part of the teacher training program at Örebro University in Sweden. By focusing on historical artifacts, the purpose of the exercise is to stimulate students to present an account of their respectively their family’s history and to offer…