I guess it makes slightly more sense if they meant to say learning about history.
But still, I’m not sure making claims like this is going to reverse the eternal reality of young people not giving a shit about history and only starting to recognize its importance after they have made the same mistakes.
It’s like “Math is fun kids!”, “history slaps!”. While young people just roll their eyes. Just because the slang is slightly updated doesn’t actually make the message any more compelling.
I’m not sure why I’m being so negative here, I guess I just feel like the tweet is kinda dumb and virtue signalling and that’s setting the tone for my interaction with it.
I honestly didn’t like history until my mid or late twenties, except for 9th year. I think it was mainly because every other teacher some about it in monotones, if at all and basically just assigned in-class silent reading and a boatload of homework that didn’t even cover important things. 9th year instructor some with inflection, asked questions that prompted deep thought and critical thinking.
I think they mean learning about history slaps. History is both interesting and extremely important even when it’s depressing.
Encouraging learning about history is something we should continue to do, even if it means using collloquialisms.
I guess it makes slightly more sense if they meant to say learning about history.
But still, I’m not sure making claims like this is going to reverse the eternal reality of young people not giving a shit about history and only starting to recognize its importance after they have made the same mistakes.
It’s like “Math is fun kids!”, “history slaps!”. While young people just roll their eyes. Just because the slang is slightly updated doesn’t actually make the message any more compelling.
I’m not sure why I’m being so negative here, I guess I just feel like the tweet is kinda dumb and virtue signalling and that’s setting the tone for my interaction with it.
I honestly didn’t like history until my mid or late twenties, except for 9th year. I think it was mainly because every other teacher some about it in monotones, if at all and basically just assigned in-class silent reading and a boatload of homework that didn’t even cover important things. 9th year instructor some with inflection, asked questions that prompted deep thought and critical thinking.
That’s fair, history teachers can certainly get lazy. If you present the information in an engaging way it’s definitely not boring.