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Worth the WAIT: Engaging Social Studies Students with Art in a Digital Age
B Scott Crawford; David Hicks; Nicole Doherty
Social Education Vol. 73, No. 3 (April 2009) pp. 136–139
If the mission of the social studies is to educate global citizens for the twenty-first century, then students must learn how to engage in the type of systematic and sophisticated literacy work that recognizes the power of images as well as texts....
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Using Technology to Teach Historical Understanding: The Digital History Reader Brings the Possibilities of New Technology to the History Classroom
Robert P. Stephens; Jane L. Lehr; Daniel B. Thorp; E Thomas Ewing; David Hicks
Social Education Vol. 69, No. 3 (Apr 01, 2005)
Today's students are generally accustomed to seeing timelines of events, lists of names, and bulleted items, yet they lack an understanding of the complexity of historical analysis. Learning to read historical information from charts, for example,...
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Constructivism as a Theoretical Foundation for the Use of Technology in Social Studies
Peter E. Doolittle; David Hicks
Theory and Research in Social Education Vol. 31, No. 1 (2003) pp. 72–104
The National Council for the Social Studies has explicitly advocated technology integration into the social studies classroom to transform the teaching and learning of key social studies content and skills. While the call for technology integration...
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Fostering Analysis in Historical Inquiry through Multimedia Embedded Scaffolding
David Hicks; Peter E. Doolittle
Theory and Research in Social Education Vol. 36, No. 3 (2008) pp. 206–232
This article reports on the findings of a study designed to assess the utility of a multimedia tutorial intended to scaffold the development of historical source analysis through the use of the SCIM strategy. Seventy-seven undergraduate students (29 ...
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Social Studies Teachers' Use of Classroom-Based and Web-Based Historical Primary Sources
David Hicks; Peter Doolittle; John K. Lee
Theory and Research in Social Education Vol. 32, No. 2 (2004) pp. 213–247
A limited body of research examines the extent to which social studies teachers are actually utilizing primary sources that are accessible in traditional classroom-based formats versus web-based formats. This paper initiates an exploration of this...
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Through the Democratic Lens: The Role of Purpose in Leveraging Technology to Support Historical Inquiry in the Social Studies Classroom
Kathy Swan; David Hicks
International Journal of Social Education Vol. 21, No. 2 (2007) pp. 142–168
This study provides a clearer portrait of the extent to which practicing history and social studies teachers, who explicitly expressed an interest in the potential of technology and advocate the use of primary sources within their teaching, are...
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Making global connections: The knowledge, understanding and motivation of trainee teachers
Cathie Holden; David Hicks
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 23, No. 1 pp. 13–23
This article begins by noting some of the global concerns that young people have today and highlights the crucial role of global education in responding to such concerns. It then considers the importance of teacher training in such matters and...
Language: English
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Planning, Collaborating, and Instructing with Technology: Focus on Teacher Preparation, Part 1
Amy Good; Cheryl Franklin; John Lee; David Hicks; Kathy Swan; Scott Waring; Mark Hofer; David Locascio
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 3542–3545
This symposium brings together a panel of social studies educators to address salient issues of preparing preservice teachers to integrate technology into their practice. Panelists will present six projects related to the symposium theme. The...
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Online Pedagogy: Principles for Supporting Effective Distance Education
Stephanie B. Scheer; Krista P. Terry; Peter E. Doolittle; David Hicks
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching Vol. 15, No. 1 (2004) pp. 7–30
Distance education has become a major form of education in the United States. This surge in popularity has launched a plethora of scholarship emphasizing the distillation of those strategies which inform effective, learning experiences in the...
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Digital History in Social Studies Teacher Education: Practices, Promises and Provisos, Part 1
Meghan McGlinn; Thomas Hammond; Adam Friedman; Cheryl Mason Bolick; Glen Bull; Bill Ferster; David Hicks; John Lee; Brendan Calandra; Peter Doolittle; Tom Ewing
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 4134–4147
This symposium will define digital history as the "study of the past using a variety of electronically reproduced primary source texts, images, and artifacts, as well as the constructed historical narratives, accounts, or presentations that result...
Topics: Social Studies
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The Effects of Training, Modality, and Redundancy on the Development of a Historical Inquiry Strategy in a Multimedia Learning Environment
Andrea L. McNeill; Peter E. Doolittle; David Hicks
Journal of Interactive Online Learning Vol. 8, No. 3 (2009) pp. 255–269
The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of training, modality, and redundancy on the participants' ability to apply and recall a historical inquiry strategy. An experimental research design was utilized with presentation mode as the...