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Historiana and the teaching of historical thinking skills
As we all know, teaching history involves much more than just telling ‘a story’. Even telling a story is not just that. It starts with the choice of language we use, what we include and leave out, the perspective we use when presenting events, and what narrative approach we choose: do we start from the…
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Europeans were migrants too!
Of course Europeans often still ARE migrants, but this blogpost is about a period in the past. Let me introduce you to the Historiana narrative European Migration to the USA. The narrative focuses on migration to the USA from Europe between the years 1845-1945. It has sections about: As a teacher you might want to…
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The perks of a proper ‘Doom scroll’ for Historiana- Jens Lenders
When having the privilege of being able to travel to work by train, I often find myself doom scrolling. It’s a term that has been coined in mental health research the last few years. It is defined by Seydi Ahmet Satici et al as “An urge to get all the facts in order to protect…
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Using Historiana in Blended Learning
When the Covid epidemic hit, most of us teachers were forced to develop different forms of online learning. Being stuck at home made the use of online tools, such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom a necessity. Other tools were also used. Some of the experiments worked out well and created new and more engaging learning…
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Using Historiana to build a sense of what the world was like c.1900
As history teachers we want our students to care about the people and events they learn about from the past. We want them to make a connection and to be interested with a world that is different from their own. If our students care about what they are learning about in history they are more…