Interactivity #4
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I chose this lesson because I feel that the importance of the Civil War in economic terms has been greatly underestimated. Included in this lesson plan was several tools to allow students, even at a young age, to explore the economic issues surrounding the South and also to allow them to see the Souths reliance on the North to process the slave extracted resources from the South. The blending of technology into the lesson plan makes for a wider understanding of the situation and allows the student to connect to the topic in a more thought provoking way. The goal of the lesson plan in the end is to have the students understand the underlying issues of the souths economy and how the lack of industrialization in the south would lead to the Norths dominance over the south, and their perceived need to rebel.
I would have liked to see a larger emphases on technologies which was lacking slightly. There could be a wider focus on the other aspects of these technologies and adding some things like allowing the students to do research on their own, creating independent projects using technology and exploring the documents more using the Internet.
Justin,
ReplyDeleteGiven your topic I can agree that technology would be fairly difficult to weave into the lesson. Thinking about the Civil War, the only technology that immediately comes to mind would be the Internet for doing research. I believe this topic would require some serious thinking outside of the box when it comes to integrating technology into this lesson. One that comes to mind is making use of different games which may relate to the civil war. When I think of a game that relates to history, I think of Oregon Trail. Perhaps there is a game relating to the Civil War?