History teaching's brave new world

Simon McKenzie

By Simon McKenzie
Community contribution / June 11, 2015

Students today are using their ‘digital limbs’ (their devices) to rewrite history in their new idiom.

Let me immediately offend what may be a significant number of TechnologyEd’s readers; I loathe reality television.

Even more ...

This story appeared in the Term 2, 2015 edition of TechnologyEd.

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