She’s headed to tour a college where she hopes to major in history, before getting her Ph.D. But on Friday, as views continue to rise, she won’t be spending too much time on her phone. Pavek’s contemporary history exam on Thursday may not have happened through TikTok. TikTok is just one way “that students can show us what they know,” she says. The videos also demonstrate a student’s unique interpretation and understanding of history - and many history teachers nationwide are starting to use TikToks to assess students, according to Leatherman. “This makes me so hopeful for the future,” she says. “The message that he’s trying to communicate is really important here, and even in the act of fact checking what he’s saying, are learning,” says Coe, who adds that these videos fill her with “pure joy.” Her biggest fanbases are teens and the kids, mostly from ages 8 to 17 years old. She uploads short videos of doing silly dance styles and singing in her unique voice. Coe says the overall point of the clip gets across so powerfully that it supersedes factual accuracy. Sienna Mae Gomez, also known as Sienna Mae, is an American TikTok girl and Viner with over 6 million followers and one of the most subscribed TikTok girls. “For me, it was an actual learning experience.”ĭespite the fact that historical accounts can inevitably spark debates on the internet, both Coe and Leatherman had a lighthearted perspective on the videos - accurate or not.
“I’m happy that they said it, because that let me know I should do more research,” he tells TIME. But he’s glad that commenters pointed it out. This is a helpful tool, it’s a great way to help summarize and identify some of these key things, but obviously we certainly want students going deeper.”īi, 17, didn’t realize that he’d gotten the dates wrong when he first posted the video. “But that certainly shouldn’t be all a student learns about it. “I don’t know how else you would explain the League of Nations in 15 seconds,” Leatherman tells TIME. While a TikTok tells the story in simpler terms, Grace Leatherman, the executive director of the National Council for History Education says this interpretation of history is “as good as you can do” in a short clip, and it should inspire students to do more research on their own. State Department’s Office of the Historian. participation than it would have otherwise,” according to the U.S. “Most historians hold that the League operated much less effectively without U.S. Henry Cabot Lodge, who was opposed to the League of Nations, and Congress never voted to join. (Those 14 points served as the basis of the Treaty of Versailles.) Wilson battled the Senate Majority Leader, Republican Sen. President Woodrow Wilson had first proposed the league in his January 1918 “Fourteen Points” speech for a vision of peace in Europe post-World War I, the U.S.
Of course, the video quickly aims to retell a much longer story.
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