Mark and Scott Schaffner - Making History Discussions Fun

Mark is speaking with his history teacher Scott Schaffner about making history classes fun and interesting to students. When we observe history as events we didn’t see but just hear about from others, it opens new perspectives on a different way of approaching the discipline of history. Questions like how and why something happened are so much fun because we get to analyze history and not just accept it. It is important to dig a little deeper into history because it will provide us with answers and solutions to today’s problems. Show notes:🥱 Scott is a history professor and Mark is his student: why do students think history is boring? 00:54🕵 Keys on how to make history classes interesting: less memorization because everybody's version of events of what happened is different.  04:16🔁 History repeats itself: understanding the how and why has an impact on our life now as well. 08:13🤔 Rise of Hitler: understanding a German person in 1933 and all reasons and patterns that impacted life then. 10:12🤓 History is written by winners: Churchill wrote about his leadership during WW2, and Woodrow Wilson would be considered a racist. 11:43🗝️ Without knowing history, there are no solutions: history is giving answers to understanding how and why things are in the world that we live in now. 15:40👀 Looking at all perspectives - analyzing is the key: war in Ukraine. 18:39✨ Making classes fun: engaging students to think about why behind historical events. 22:36Links:Connect with us: www.ascendnow.org