tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post2584575538360017811..comments2024-03-12T03:54:14.577-04:00Comments on The Historical Society: "I hate history": Thinking of Ways to Get the Average, History-Hating Student Interested in the Study of the PastRandallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-41250310728651338612010-08-19T21:15:15.724-04:002010-08-19T21:15:15.724-04:00Gregg: You really do have your work cut out for yo...Gregg: You really do have your work cut out for you! Would be fun to get students to think about the chief developments in technology over the last 100 years and how that has reshaped our lives.Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-12715131171697771712010-08-19T14:10:41.642-04:002010-08-19T14:10:41.642-04:00I write quite a bit about the history of technolog...I write quite a bit about the history of technology and i think the points you raise are excellent. I ask myself the question of why should someone care about the history of technology? The answer is that it made us who we are today and technology continues to make us who we will be tomorrow. I realize that it is not just technology, but perspective is a very valuable thing.Gregg McPhersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07890946031765666621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-84214683945671305882010-08-11T20:07:09.725-04:002010-08-11T20:07:09.725-04:00Thanks for the kind words, Katy. Glad to hear that...Thanks for the kind words, Katy. Glad to hear that the study of history became an exciting topic for you.<br /><br />It would be fun to create a "Why Study History" resource website. I'm sure that there are loads of questions history professors have developed to get students to think about how and why history "matters." <br /><br />I would guess that quite a few historians just assume it is a relevant, vital area of study. But, we all need to remember that it looks nothing like that to most undergrads.Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-20516273480068091032010-08-11T18:09:38.439-04:002010-08-11T18:09:38.439-04:00I found history excruciatingly boring in high scho...I found history excruciatingly boring in high school and yet for reasons still unknown, I wound up studying it in college. I was all set to become a history teacher myself and in a course entitled "issues in teaching history and social science", we finally began to explore some of the issues that you have raised. I think it is of the utmost importance that students of history (forced or otherwise), have some perspective as to why history is a relevant and perhaps much more important area of study than given credit. I love the idea of the link between history and geography. All too often, geography is thrown by the wayside and pictures and maps in history texts neglected as filler. Borders change, power shifts, ideologies expand and recede. Would have loved to have a thoughtful gen ed history professor like you.Katynoreply@blogger.com