Education scholars must embrace digital media rather than focus on publishing papers in academic journals, to truly influence teaching practices, says Sam Wineburg in a recent lecture. Here’s a summary and video of the talk.
The crowd of scholars who turned up expecting Sam Wineburg to lecture about the left-wing American historian Howard Zinn was in for a surprise. “I have changed the title of my lecture,” said Wineburg, a professor at Stanford University School of Education. “I am going to speak today about being untrained to Tweet.”