I would like to thank everyone who attended the SIG meeting on Thursday afternoon. For those of you who were not able to join us – I’m breaking the rule and letting what happened in Vegas out of Vegas. We had a wonderful conversation about the things we are doing with technology in our various educational lives. As a way to keep the conversation and sharing we started in Vegas going, those of us at the meeting planned to use the SITEBlog (www.siteblog.org) to post stories about our work. These … [Read more...]
Integrating technology into social studies
Integrating technology into social studies instruction is a complex task that is dependent on a number of factors related to classroom practice. In Volume 7 Issue 2 of Cite Journal Social Studies (http://www.citejournal.org/vol7/iss2/socialstudies/article1.cfm) we present Mark Hofer and Kathy Swan's research on these issues as experienced by a 5th grade teacher using technology tools to facilitate her students' construction of historical documentaries. Hofer and Swan situate their report in the … [Read more...]
Discourse on technology in social education
For the last six years, CITE Journal Social Studies has published research and scholarship on social studies and technology including periodic commentaries on published articles. Given our success with the commentaries, we would like to extend our journal-related discourse to an even wider audience and will publish an editorial in CITE Journal Social Studies calling for more robust discourse on scholarly issues and published research in social studies. … [Read more...]