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Engaging Students in Historical Inquiry Using Internet Resources
Andrew J. Milson
Annual Meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies 2001 (November 2001)
Social studies educators have promoted inquiry learning as a valuable method of instruction. Research into the use of inquiry methods in the teaching and learning of history has demonstrated that this method has much to offer. Recently, the use of...
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WebQuest: Using Internet Resources for Cooperative Inquiry
Andrew J. Milson; Portia Downey
Social Education Vol. 65, No. 3 (2001) pp. 144–46
Offers a description of WebQuests, defining it as an activity that primarily uses Internet resources. Explains that WebQuests consist of five parts (Introduction, Task, Process, Evaluation, and Conclusion). Presents a WebQuest example used with...
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Internet-Based GIS in an Inductive Learning Environment: A Case Study of Ninth-Grade Geography Students
Andrew J. Milson; Brian D. Earle
Journal of Geography Vol. 106, No. 6 (November 2007) pp. 227–237
This article reports the results of a qualitative case study that explored the use of Internet-based geographic information systems (IGIS) with ninth-grade geography students. The students worked in teams to examine the geography of Africa using...
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Character Education for Cyberspace: Developing Good Netizens
Andrew J. Milson; Beong-Wan Chu
Social Studies Vol. 93, No. 3 (2002) pp. 117–119
At the simplest level, cyberspace is a sea of information that functions as a huge, generally disorganized, database. At a more complex level, cyberspace functions as a communication medium. In the most complex sense, cyberspace may be conceived as...
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Visualizing Economic Development with ArcGIS Explorer
Megan L. Webster; Andrew J. Milson
Social Education Vol. 75, No. 2 (2011) pp. 114–117
Numerous educators have noted that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a powerful tool for social studies teaching and learning. Yet the use of GIS has been hampered by issues such as the cost of the software and the management of large spatial...
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Where and Why There? Spatial Thinking with Geographic Information Systems
Andrew J. Milson; Mary D. Curtis
Social Education Vol. 73, No. 3 (April 2009) pp. 113–118
The authors developed and implemented a project for high school geography students that modeled the processes in a site selection analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). They sought to explore how spatial thinking could be fostered by...
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The Global Landscape of GIS in Secondary Education
Joseph J. Kerski; Ali Demirci; Andrew J. Milson
Journal of Geography Vol. 112, No. 6 (2013) pp. 232–247
This study analyzes the status of GIS in schools in thirty-three countries and proposes recommendations for advancing the implementation and effectiveness of GIS in secondary education from an international perspective. Thirty-three countries have...
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Discovering Africa through Internet-Based Geographic Information Systems: A Pan-African Summit Simulation
Andrew J. Milson; Kathleen M. Gilbert; Brian D. Earle
Social Education Vol. 71, No. 3 (April 2007) pp. 140–145
In the United States, people get very little news about Africa, and what news they do get is about war or famine, with little historical information or context. In this article, the authors describe how they developed and implemented a Pan-African...