Chapter 12 Blog Notes

Teaching and Learning with Technology in Social Studies Instuction

10 Required Social Studies Standards

• Culture: typically occurs in units and courses dealing with geography, history, sociology, and anthropology. What are the characteristics of different cultures?
• Time, continuity, and change: typically appears in courses in history and others that draw on historical knowledge and habits
• people places and environments: typically appears in units and courses dealing with area studies and geography
• individual development and identity: typically appears in units and courses dealing with psychology and anthropology
• Individuals, groups, and institutions: typically appears in units and courses dealing with sociology, anthropology, psychology, political science, and history
• Power, authority, and governance: typically appears in units and courses dealing with government, politics, political science, history and law
• production, distribution, and consumption: typically appears in units and courses dealing with economic concepts and issues
• science, technology and society: draws on natural and physical sciences, social studies, and the humanities.  appears in a variety of social studies courses, including history, geography, economics, civics, and government
• Global connections: tyically appears in units and courses dealing with geography, culture, and economics, but may also draw on the natural and physical sciences and the humanities.
• Civic ideals and practices: typically appears in units or courses dealing with history, political science, and cultural anthropology and fields such as global studies, law-related education, and the humanities.

Technology integration strategies: 

Simulated Problem Solving environements: 

• simulations help make concepts clear and meaningful
• help develop problem solving skills

Information Visualization

• information design and uses pictures symbols, colors, and words o communicate ideas, illustrate info, or express relationships visually
• allow students to understand time sequences, track change over time, and represent complex data in ways that can be understood.

Virtual Field Trips

• provide students opportunity to construct knowledge actively
• offer budget friendly opportunities
• Elements
• need to have connection to curriculum 
• teachers need to work with site personell to enhance learning
• teachers need to prepare students on field trip before they "go"

Adventure Learning

• hybrid distance education approach
• for example, students follow along virtually as students and educators actually explore the world
• these projects promote communication, encourage reflection, & provide a wealth of info

Digital Storytelling

• process of using images and audio to tell stories of lives, events

Digital Information Critques

• critically evaluating digital information

Geospatial Analysis

• visualization, analysis, and measurement of features and phenomena
• Allow students to view and examine the world through multiple layering of data sets
• Google Earth