Understanding the “New and Deeper Perspective” of a History Course: Digital Word Clouds and Student Self-Reflection

Can digital tools help students reflect on the knowledge and skills they have learned throughout a history course? This blog post argues “yes” and proceeds to explain how Mentimeter and a double use of its responsive word cloud function can encourage retrospective and reflexive processes among undergraduate history students. Maja Hultman As history teachers in Higher Education, we know that curricular goals seldom are concrete. Our students are not expected to recite facts. Instead, takeawa...