A Kōrero with Local Dunedin History Teachers

One of the trust’s key aims is to preserve digitised local newspaper content that will be of use in schools and other educational settings. Although newspapers on sites such as Papers Past are accessed by all manner of people, they are a valuable resource for teachers and are often the first place school students look when researching New Zealand’s past.

As a newly co-opted trust board member, Lachy met up with some Dunedin high-school history teachers last month for a kōrero, first about what the trust was doing, and then to get some data on how the teachers and their students use online sources in their teaching and learning practice. Although not all history teachers in the city could make it, we had eight teachers from Bayfield High School, Columba College, John McGlashen College, Kaikorai Valley College, Logan Park High School, Otago Girls High School and Queens High School.