W4: Making Connections Across Disciplines Through a Digital Scholarship Lens
Abstract: Digital scholarship is transforming historical research, teaching, and learning, harnessing the power of data collection/visualization, and storytelling via Geographic Information Systems (GIS), citizen science, podcasting, and documentary filmmaking. Historical thinking's reliance on the intersections of space, place, and time makes the history classroom, local history museum, and historic sites natural settings to introduce students to modern mapping tools, databases, archives, field experiences, and material culture. Powerful digital scholarship projects including Bunk, Mapping Inequality, and Southern Journey, alongside Emmy Award-winning filmmaking including The Future of America’s Past, bring inquiry and place-based learning into schools and communities across the country. Participants will reimagine how schools, museum educators, and local and public historians can work collaboratively integrating digital scholarship tools and resources to uncover the untold stories and missing pieces of what we know or thought we already knew about the American past.