{"id":216,"date":"2014-11-21T13:03:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T13:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackhistorynorton.wordpress.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2014-11-21T13:03:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T13:03:55","slug":"new-technology-vs-new-pedagogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/new-technology-vs-new-pedagogy\/","title":{"rendered":"New technology vs new pedagogy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my struggles has been helping students learn digital historical tools when I have only recently taught myself those same tools. For example, I've designed or modified others' lesson plans using\u00a0<a title=\"link to distant reading website\" href=\"http:\/\/voyant-tools.org\" target=\"_blank\">voyant tools<\/a> for distant reading or <a title=\"Link to Gis website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/features\/\" target=\"_blank\">ArcGIS<\/a>\u00a0for historical mapping. I had a <a title=\"Link to google maps engine. \" href=\"https:\/\/mapsengine.google.com\/platform\/prelogin\" target=\"_blank\">google maps engine <\/a>lesson plan that I'd used for a while. . . and then google tweaked its interface and my lesson plan went down the toilet. So I learned ArcGIS instead.<\/p>\n<p>None of these technologies are difficult to learn and all of them have a huge skills\/jobs\/I can do something amazing! payout. Still, if it takes me an hour to learn a digital tool, that's an hour I'm not grading, or participating in a discussion, or thinking about how to improve a lesson plan. Teachers, like creative types everywhere, must balance the acquisition and mastery of skills with the practice of those skills (for which we are paid).<\/p>\n<p>In short, any minor, new technical skill I must acquire pulls me away from teaching, and that has meant long nights, and frequent moments of \"this lesson plan is good-enough technologically\" reflection. This pull between learning the new and relying on the old is a constant for professors, but I feel it more acutely as I'm trying to embrace digital history as a pedagogy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my struggles has been helping students learn digital historical tools when I have only recently taught myself those same tools. For example, I&#8217;ve designed or modified others&#8217; lesson plans using\u00a0voyant tools for distant reading or ArcGIS\u00a0for historical mapping. I had a google maps engine lesson plan that I&#8217;d used for a while. .<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/new-technology-vs-new-pedagogy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;New technology vs new pedagogy.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}