Interviews

The following clips come from interviews conducted in February and March of 2006. Professors T. Mills Kelly, Michael O’Malley, and Gary Kornblith discuss how they use new media and the changes that this technology has brought about in their own thinking and teaching of history.

Professor T. Mills Kelly:

  1. When did you start using new media in the classroom? And how did you use it? (1:08 min)
  2. How do you use technology in your classes today and why? (4:08 min)
  3. How much do students and their familiarity with new technologies drive the types of technologies you use in your teaching? (2:34 min)
  4. Do you see cognitive changes occurring as students grow up in an increasingly new media saturated world? Are they understanding information differently as a result? (0:47 min)
  5. How do the changes you see in students affect the way you teach history in the college classroom? (3:34 min)
  6. How do you think historians should alter their pedagogical methods in order to reach modern students? (1:33 min)
  7. What do we need to teach them about the technology that they use every day? (0:29 min)
  8. How has history pedagogy changed as a result of new media? (2:47 min)
  9. Where are we headed with new technology and history education? What future changes do you see occurring? (5:15 min)

Professor Michael O’Malley:

  1. When did you start using new media? (2:22 min)
  2. How did you use technology in the classroom originally? And how do you use the web now? (4:27 min)
  3. How have new technologies challenged historians in their traditional historical methods? (3:08 min)
  4. How have new technologies challenged history pedagogy? (1:12 min)
  5. How has new media affected students cognitive developments and thus changed the way they approach history? (2:00 min)
  6. You see searching as a unique advantage of the web for education. Can you expand upon this? (0:47 min)
  7. In your class, does using the web to “do history” encourage students to see history differently? Has it changed your teaching? (2:09 min)

Professor Gary Kornblith:

  1. How long have you been using new media in your history classroom? (3:14 min)
  2. What drew you to using new media in the classroom? (2:33 min)
  3. How has new media changed your teaching methods/ pedagogy? (1:03 min; 2:44; 2:54 min)
  4. Do you believe that new media has affected students cognitive developments and thus changed the way they approach history? (3:16; 2:23 min)
  5. What would you list as three benefits of using new technology in history education? (2:43; 1:58 min)
  6. What would you list as three downsides of using new technoloy in history education? (2:49 miin)
  7. Has new media revolutionized history pedagogy? How has history pedagogy changed as a result of new media? (2:46 min)
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