Readings

Active Learning
Ian Dawson has a very useful website on this type of technique. I found it VERY handy especially because we historians often like to sit behind a desk and we take for granted that that is the best way of learning. Check his website and broaden your teaching strategies.

http://www.thinkinghistory.co.uk/Issues/IssueActiveLearning.html


Death by Monoculture
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/death-by-monoculture/


Academic writing.

• Mike Ashby, University of Cambridge, has put together the best guide to writing a paper. It is easy to read and clear enough for those who have not put together an academic piece of work in a long time. Click here for more.

Memory

• Here is Graciela Rubio's article on Pedagogy and Memory (Spanish). 
• Here is a list of lectures delivered by Colombian scholars in the International Travelling Seminar on historical memory in Colombia. These are based on the assumption that "the building of historical memory is one of the basic conditions for strengthening the democracy in a nation because it allows us to admit different voices: those of collective and individual memories which had been excluded from the official history (...)". Unfortunately, the website to the seminar does not work and I could not access previous articles. 
• A good reflection on the same topic can be found in this blog (Spanish). 
• In this paper, Diana Veneros Ruiz-Tagle and María Isabel Toledo Jofré  (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile) argue that guided visits to historical sites contribute to build relevance on the memory of a specific fact, affected, of course, by the interpretation of recent history. By means of these visits, they could bring about students' appreciation of history and their history. 
• Joaquím Prats argues that memory is not the same as history and that in the case of the teaching of history, memory should be a tool to learn history and build knowledge. To read the full article click here.