Social Education articles from April 2004

Social Education archives from April 2004

Editor's notebook.(Editorial)
April 1, 2004... Much of the discussion of the value of the Internet for teaching history has focused on ways in which it makes information available about major national events and leaders. Yet, as a number of our contributors point out, the Internet also has...

Using comparative online media to study the Iraq War.
April 1, 2004... Nor SURPRISINGLY, the war in Iraq and the aftermath are receiving media attention around the globe. A plethora of media reports from many other countries is now available online in English. This cornucopia of materials is ideal for comparative...

Teaching for civic participation with negotiation role plays.
April 1, 2004... You represent U.S. Environmental Trust (USET), a domestic environmental management group, on a blue-ribbon commission studying the costs and benefits of immigration. USET is concerned with protecting America's limited natural resources and...

Harriet Jacobs: using online slave narratives in the classroom.
April 1, 2004... The teacher of a local high school U.S. history course recently took her students to the computer lab. She had selected a series of online primary sources for her students to analyze. This teacher believes in providing students with...

Studying local history in the digital age: the story of Asaph Perry.
April 1, 2004... ONE YEAR AGO WE HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE of discovering some forgotten and unused historical resources hidden in a storage closet at the Cherokee County Georgia Historical Society. From these resources, we were able to weave an intriguing narrative...

Summer workshops 2004.(NCSS Professional Development)
April 1, 2004... 1 Teaching about the Presidential Election Using Storypath ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVELS WHEN: JULY 7-9, 2004 WHERE: SEATTLE UNIVERSITY, SEATTLE, WA Once again the presidential election is just around the corner, and if...

"Who Killed William Robinson?" Exploring a nineteenth-century murder online.
April 1, 2004... As a recent special edition of SOCIAL EDUCATION suggested, the use of historical primary documents in the classroom promises to improve the way" that history and social studies are taught throughout North America (vol. 67 no. 7, Nov/Dec. 2003)....

Digital images: capturing America's past with the technology of today.
April 1, 2004... The use of digital photography in the social studies classroom offers students an application of technology that can help them develop the skills necessary to access, analyze, and evaluate all forms of information and communication. Students...

The SCIM-C strategy: expert historians, historical inquiry, and multimedia.
April 1, 2004... Understanding history is a challenge. In order to provide teachers with a tool that can help students acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to interpret primary sources and reconcile various historical accounts, we developed the SCIM-C...

Web historical inquiry projects.
April 1, 2004... You've been teaching history for several years now, and no matter what you do your students just don't get it. They can't remember anything for more than a day, their writing is horrible, and worse yet they just don't care. You know there has...

What does it mean to think historically ... and how do you teach it?(Research and Practice)
April 1, 2004... THERE IS A LOT OF TALK THESE DAYS about thinking historically. Policy makers use the term. So do teachers, curriculum writers, test makers, and administrators. And above all researchers use it--a lot. A number of articles have been published in...

The NCSS presidency: perennial themes of leadership.
April 1, 2004... Assuming a presidential leadership position whether of a nation, a business enterprise, or a professional organization such as National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) lends itself to addressing change. Presidents of professional...

Jonathan Zimmerman Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Jonathan Zimmerman Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools. MASSACHUSETFS: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002 In his book, Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools, Jonathan Zimmerman examines debates over history and...