Saturday, August 3, 2013
Organizing my online life
Here is a screen shot of my organizing your online life document. I found Pinterest to be really innovative and valuable as a future educator. I plan to use it in my history classroom this fall while student teaching to show various primary sources like pictures and paintings to my students. If you would like to refer back to my Pinterest blog it was published on July 17th, 2013.
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I would be remiss if I did not comment on your background, which reminds me of a ground breaking, earth-shattering book by David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (2004, 2011). Starting with the Big Bang some 13 billion years ago, Maps of Time, described by world historian William H. McNeill as “a historical and intellectual masterpiece,” offers readers “a magnificent synthesis of what scholars and scientists have learned about the world around us in the past hundred years” (xvii). Big history is interdisciplinary; “it studies the past across physics, astronomy, geology, biology, and human history” (xxiv). Maps of Time is written from a historian’s perspective, not that of an astronomer, a geologist, or a biologist (6). Influenced by the Annales School in France, Christian tells a coherent story about the past on many different scales, beginning, literally, with the origins of the universe and ending in the present day (2).
ReplyDeleteThe first 5 chapters cover topics that normally fall within the sciences of cosmology, geology, and biology. They discuss the origins and evolution of the universe, of galaxies and stars, of the solar system and the earth, and of life on earth. Chapters 6 and 7 discuss the evolution of human beings and the societies within which they lived. After 200 pages of reading, we come to Chapter 8, which examines the earliest agrarian societies. Chapters 9 and 10 describe the emergence and evolution of cities, of states, and of agrarian civilizations. Chapters 11 to 14 map out the origins of our modern world. Finally, chapter 15 looks to the future, raising questions about where we are headed, “because what we do today may have a significant impact on the lives of those who live a century from now” (490). So, then, the question remains: How can we, as 21st educators, use Map of Time to teach students about the past at many different scales, from a global perspective, as your blog background suggests?