I’m delighted to announce that Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology has been published by the University of Michigan Press.
Pastplay emerged from a symposium that I organized in beautiful Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. On the second day of the symposium, each of the participants “presented” a paper, although the presenter was not allowed to speak-the chapter was discussed by the chapter’s readers, and the group as a whole; the author was only allowed to respond to questions. It was an unusual set up, but worked.
From these collected chapters a thesis emerged: in Pastplay we make the case that we should play with technology in history because doing so enables us to see the past in new ways, by: i. helping us understand how history is created; ii. honoring the roots of research, teaching, and technology development; iii. requiring us to model our thoughts; iv. allowing us to build our understanding.
- Timothy Compeau
- Peter Dawson
- Patrick Dunae
- Devon Elliott
- Sean Gouglas
- Shawn Graham
- Miheala Ilovan
- T. Mills Kelly
- Matthew Kirschenbaum
- Stéphane Lévesque
- Richard Levy
- Shannon Lucky
- Robert MacDougall
- Jeremiah McCall
- Bethany Nowviskie
- Stephen Ramsay
- Geoffrey Rockwell
- Silvia Russell
- Ruth Sandwell
- John Sutton Lutz
- Brenda Trofanenko
- William J. Turkel
Finally, a special thank you to The History Education Network / Histoire et éducation en réseau (THEN/HiER) for its support of the symposium and the book (Pastplay is the second major publication of THEN/HiER), the Canada Research Chairs program, and Brock University.
