Social Education articles from April 2009

Social Education archives from April 2009

Teaching with documents, and documents, and more documents: the National Archives digital partnerships.(Teaching with Documents)
April 1, 2009... What if... ... you were teaching a lesson on the French Revolution, and rather than assigning your students to read a section in their textbook on the subject, they could read Thomas Jefferson's letter to John Jay describing what he...

Teaching with rather than about geographic information systems.
April 1, 2009... In 1994, the National Council for Geography Education's Standards Project singled out Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as powerful tools for developing students' geographic skills and perspectives. (1) The group made two predictions. First,...

Making connections: using online discussion forums to engage students in historical inquiry Whitney Blankenship.
April 1, 2009... Previous issues of Social Education have highlighted the benefits of using electronic discussion forums, including increasing citizenship skills, supporting historical inquiry, and enhancing classroom discussion. (1) Researchers have also found...

Authentic intellectual work on school desegregation: the digital history of massive resistance in Norfolk, Virginia.(Viewpoint essay)
April 1, 2009... This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the integration of Norfolk Public Schools. On February 2, 1959, the "Norfolk 17" integrated the formerly all-white public middle and high schools in Norfolk, Virginia. Less known than their...

Worth the WAIT: engaging social studies students with art in a digital age.(Web-based Art Interactive Tool)
April 1, 2009... Artistic depictions of historical events can capture students' imagination. Art can also be used to develop analytical skills. To give a complete interpretation of any piece of art, one has to consider the context to which it was created. The...

The "Day in the Life of a Teenage Hobo" Project: integrating technology with Shneiderman's Collect-Relate-Create-Donate framework.
April 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Used wisely, academic technology empowers students to take responsibility for their own learning. In Leonardo's Laptop, Ben Shneiderman provides teachers with a powerful framework, Collect-Relate-Create-Donate...

What I learned at the NCSS annual meeting--2008 edition.(Surfing the Net)(National Council for the Social Studies )(Viewpoint essay)
April 1, 2009... This is my third time writing a column on Internet-focused sessions and exhibit resources at the NCSS annual meeting, which, this past November, met in Houston. I know that many readers don't have an opportunity to attend the annual meeting and...

Supreme Court biographies as a classroom resource.(Looking at the Law)
April 1, 2009... In a recent issue of the American Bar Association's Focus on Law Studies, Editor John Paul Ryan moderated a dialogue among a small group of distinguished legal biographers about the challenges they faced and processes they went through in...