Making History Come Alive

Levin, H. (2003). Making History Come Alive. Learning and Leading with Technology, 31(3), 22-27.

The article, Making History Come Alive, by Howard Levin, was so inspiring; it is incredible how history has become so real and personable for those students. Video projects, such as Telling Their Stories: Oral History of the Holocaust, at Urban School of San Francisco, should be implemented at all schools; in particular, taking a specific region into consideration when creating these undertakings, can be very powerful for a community. For instance, if a school in the southeastern states, home to the Native Americans who were forced to leave their ancestral lands, or in present-day Oklahoma or Kansas where the Cherokees, Creeks, Chickasaws and Choctaws were relocated to, were to do a similar video interview project on survivors and others affected by The Trail of Tears, the impact on the community would be monumental.