{"id":721,"date":"2018-06-22T07:35:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T07:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=721"},"modified":"2020-03-20T12:31:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:31:01","slug":"history-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2018\/06\/22\/history-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"History Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems as though the powers that be are thinking of bringing the subject of History back into high schools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s probably a good idea but the way it used to be taught was boring beyond belief. Literally!<\/p>\n

Kids become disinterested and have no clue why they have to learn such ancient out-dated stuff.<\/p>\n

Just reading from the books \u2013 blah blah blah\u2026 is not the way to teach history.<\/p>\n

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I guess they will also have to make sure that it is taught from different perspectives. There are always two (or sometimes more<\/em>) ways to look at anything, no matter what it is. Different sides of the coin, so to speak.<\/p>\n

Part of me thinks that schools should just show movies in history lessons. Lump all the history lessons together into certain time periods throughout the terms and show a movie that depicts some event in history. I\u2019m sure there are probably plenty to choose from.<\/p>\n

Then have group discussions and debates with the children and get their perspective on whether things happened in a good way or a bad way and what they would have done if they had lived in that particular time.<\/p>\n

This way it makes the history more real \u2013 instead of a boring old topic that involves dead people – even if they were wonderful, powerful people who risked their lives (and sometimes gave them<\/em>) to bring about change.<\/p>\n

I know that sounds harsh, because history has shaped the world into being what it is today – which, let\u2019s face it \u2013 is not always that great and could have been done differently.<\/p>\n

Include a bit of everything too \u2013 so that maybe people understand each other better. It\u2019s so easy to judge when you don\u2019t understand where the other person is coming from.<\/p>\n

Maybe it would be a plan to get an older person \u2013 who\u2019s lived through some of the not-so-distant history to come and talk at schools. Tell the kids how things were. Make it real.<\/p>\n

Most kids today would probably think that history was a few years ago when they had a cell-phone that was not smart. Ten years ago in a kid\u2019s life is very very long time in the past. Something that happened 30 years ago is ancient history to a kid\u2026 but our parents can remember 30 years ago like it was yesterday – so everything is relative.<\/p>\n

History is cool \u2013 but please people \u2013 teach it right!<\/p>\n

Sibo<\/p>\n

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It seems as though the powers that be are thinking of bringing the subject of History back into high schools. It\u2019s probably a good idea but the way it used to be taught was boring beyond belief. Literally! Kids become disinterested and have no clue why they have to learn such ancient out-dated stuff. Just … Continue reading “History Lessons”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}