The Lincoln Telegrams Project: A Design-Based Research Approach to Simplifying Digital History
Abstract
There is a growing body of work in social studies education on the use of digital historical resources. Their use is appealing in transforming the nature of history instruction to a more student-centered format, in which there is interaction with the records and relics of the past. This paper focuses on the Lincoln Telegrams Project (https://lincolntelegrams.com), an ongoing iterative undertaking that provides K-12 and college students access to President Lincoln’s telegraphic correspondence during the American Civil War through an online digital archive, a web-based wiki, and an Apple iPad application. The paper is rooted in our design-based research in which the history and status of the project are explained, research from its use in a tenth-grade civics class is reported, and directions for the future are described.
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