Shifting the Gaze: (Mis)Using Actor-Network-Theory to Examine Preservice Teachers’ Uses of Digital Technologies.

David Hicks; Melissa Lisanti; Stephanie van Hover

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 20, No. 4 (December 2020) pp. 730–742

This paper responds to the recent call for technoskeptical or critical studies of educational technology in the classroom. The authors intentionally push against more established theoretical frameworks used in the field of teaching with technology...

Toward a Useable Protocol for Identifying and Evaluating Classroom Ready Online Educational Resources for Social Studies

Ricky Mullins; David Hicks; Todd Ogle; Evelien Schilder; Stephanie van Hover

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2709–2721

There is an abundance of online educational resources for social studies educators created by private vendors, publishing companies, governmental organizations, universities and schools, and teachers. Within the field of social studies teacher...

Topics: social studies education

Introducing Digital Humanities Projects and ARCHIE to Social Studies Preservice Teachers: Notes from the Field

David Hicks; Todd Ogle; Thomas Tucker; Aaron Johnson; Lisa Pennington; Stephanie van Hover

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2694–2701

This paper describes a transdisciplinary course for social studies preservice teachers that not only connects current and emerging digital technologies to content, pedagogy, and student learning; but also brings together the research interests of...

Topics: social studies education, Mobile Learning, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Revisiting the "Sleeping Giant" Metaphor: Is It Still Sleeping in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Is It Still Really a Giant?

Hicks David; Stephanie van Hover

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 14, No. 2 (June 2014) pp. 141–157

In order to revisit Martorella’s metaphor of technology as a sleeping giant this paper analyzes data collected over multiple years in order to provide a portrait of how preservice teachers make sense of and choose (if at all) to integrate digital...