Amy Burvall is an American educator known for his innovative teaching videos produced together with his colleague Herb Mahelona depicting historical events in a song to a pop music hit soundtrack. The video was originally created only for use in schools but has been watched more than a million times since they began to be published on YouTube.
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Careers
Burvall received his BA in Summa cum laude in the field of Humanities from Hawaii Loa College (now Hawaii Pacific University) in 1991. He studied European history at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He worked as a history teacher at St. Andrew's Monastery school in Honolulu (2000-2008) and then at Le Jardin Academy International in Kailua, Hawaii. He comes from a teacher's family but says, "I do not always want to be a teacher, I want to be a spy - with all my costumes, you might be able to see why." He praised his interest in combining music and learning to influence the television program he watched as a child like Sesame Street and Rock Schoolhouse!
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History for Music Lovers
Around 2004, when he worked at the St. Andrew Monastic School, Burvall came up with the idea of ​​organizing historical facts into the tune of pop songs to give an aide-memoire to his pupils at the end of course. The first songs he created specifically for his history teaching are Civilization, for the Gwen Stefani soundtrack "Harajuku Girls", and Henry VIII to ABBA's "Money, Money, Money". Both were composed after Burvall heard the songs repeatedly in his car. He originally planned to sing for his students but his partner at St Andrews, Herb Mahelona, ​​a musician and expert in Flash animation, suggested that they make a video to accompany each song. In January 2010, they began publishing videos on YouTube as part of a series titled Music Lovers History , under the username "historical history". They have generated over 50 videos that have over one million views on YouTube.
Not long after the first online video, Burvall was diagnosed with breast cancer. Chemotherapy treatments cause him to lose his hair, which he explains is the reason why he uses so many wigs in his videos, and causes insomnia that gives him plenty of time to work on new compositions. He has described how the whole project serves as an escape from his anxiety concerns. His cancer has entered a period of remission and his hair has grown again.
These videos mostly relate to pre-1900 European history because it is Burvall's interest area. He has been asked to make a video on American history but says "it's hard to write something in a forced way." Burvall says that the songs are not meant to replace the more detailed instructions, but they are a survey of the main points and vocabulary of the topic in an interesting but factually accurate way with little artistic license over the right words.
Renee Hobbs and David Cooper Moore in Discovering Media Literacy: Teaching Digital Media and Popular Cultures in Primary Schools says "Many educators have benefited from the work of these outstanding teachers" while studying the technologist Steve Wheeler paid tribute to their ability to "represent life's moments in history through music, animation, and drama".
Other activities
Burvall teaches the theory of knowledge at Le Jardin Academy. He is a Google Education certified innovator, TEDx speaker, and Mozilla. He gave a keynote address for the third annual eLearning Strategy Symposium and co-curator for TEDxHon DIABAS 2013.
Preferred publication
- Intent: Critical Creativity in Class . EdTechTeam, 2017. (By Dan Ryder) ISBNÃ, 978-1945167324
See also
- Khan Academy
References
External links
- Historyteachers on YouTube.
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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