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Promoting Student Inquiry: WebQuests to Web Inquiry Projects (WIPs)
Dodge Bernie; Philip Molebash; Randy Bell; Cheryl Mason
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 67–72
Abstract: By the earliest definition (Dodge, 1995) a WebQuest is "an inquiry-oriented activity in which most of the information learners work with comes from the web." WebQuests are defined first as being "inquiry-oriented," but are they truly an...
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VoiceThread + SCIM-C: Teachers Creating Personal Digital Histories
Philip Molebash; John Lee; Yvette Lapayese; Edmundo Litton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 1694–1699
Teachers quite often teach the way they were taught. Social studies instruction, therefore, largely looks and feels like it did five decades ago. If we are to change course, social studies teacher preparation must move beyond the sampling of...
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Concerns-Based Conceptual Change: A Theory of Change for Teacher Education
Philip Molebash
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 3900–3906
We can be encouraged by the fact that many of the teachers matriculated through our teacher preparation programs have significantly altered their teaching practice. The important question to ask is what can teacher educators do to ensure that a...
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Web Inquiry Projects: A Paper Submitted as Part of the Symposium “Multimedia, Historical Inquiry and Preservice Teacher Education”
Philip Molebash
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 3854–3855
What will it take to better prepare social studies teachers to promote historical inquiry in their classrooms? Today's networked world affords us new opportunities to prepare teachers, but it will take more effort than simply pointing teachers to...
Topics: Middle School Education, Teachers, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Preservice Teacher Education
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Inquiry: The Teacher Educators Guide to Effective Technology Integration
Philip Molebash
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 2030–2033
The majority of preservice teachers have had limited experiences learning in inquiry-oriented ways. As a result they know little of how to infuse inquiry into their future classrooms and they expect technology to be used to improve only their...
Topics: Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Wiring the Past: The Lincoln Telegrams Project
John Lee; Philip Molebash
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 4616–4619
Work in history requires analysis, inference, and ultimately trying to know the unknowable. Such work is exciting, yet as educators we are often restrained in our efforts to help our students see the full potential of history. Wiring the Past: The...
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Using WebQuests as an Introduction to Methods
Sarah Fernald; Philip Molebash
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 2251–2254
This paper describes the University of Virginia, Curry School of Education's approach for using WebQuests as an introduction to methods courses. EDLF 345, Introduction to Educational Technology, provides preservice teachers with fundamental...
Topics: Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education, Teachers
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Teaching Introductory Educational Technology to Preservice Teachers: Using a Content Area Specialization Approach
Philip Molebash; Natalie Milman
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 1180–1183
This paper describes the University of Virginia, Curry School of Education's approach in providing content-specific educational technology classes for preservice teacher education students. EDLF 345, Introduction to Educational Technology, has...
Topics: Students, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Technology, Teachers
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Mini-Courses for Teaching with Technology: Thinking Outside the 3-Credit Box
Bernie Dodge; Philip Molebash
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 3155–3156
The three semester-hour course has long been the default way to package instruction in higher education. Thinking of curriculum in three-unit chunks, however, tends to lock out new topics that don't fit into existing courses, thus reducing the...
Topics: Classrooms, Educational Technology, Distance Education, Portfolios
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Emphasizing Academic Rigor, Production Value, and the Storytelling of Digital Video Narratives
Philip Molebash; Lance Ochsner
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 1147–1152
Digital video in education is still an emerging field of both practice and research. It has become rapidly apparent that the quality of student-produced digital videos is consistently lacking in one are more areas. In particular, videos lack in...
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Web Inquiry Projects: The Everest of Online Learning Experiences
Philip Molebash; Jim Julius
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 4209–4211
The majority of preservice teachers have had few experiences learning in inquiry-oriented ways. As a result they know little of how to infuse inquiry into their future classrooms and they expect technology to be used to improve only their...
Topics: Teachers, Change, Teaching Methods
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The Network Computer in Education: The Equal and Affordable Technology Solution
Chris Koble; Philip Molebash
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 2387–2389
This paper explores the concept of Network Computing as the educational computing model of the future. In it we address the state of technology in today's educational environment including the concepts of total cost of ownership, how the network...
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Teachers and digital historical resources: Seeing the forest and the trees
John Lee; Philip Molebash
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 4128–4129
The amount of information on the Web has in recent years exploded. With this expanding universe of information, how do teachers make effective use of available educational resources? This question drives our research. In this exploratory study, we...
Topics: Teachers, Social Studies, Library
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Herding Cats: An accidental teacher educator’s guide to preparing the Arts & Sciences for a NCATE review using the ISTE NETS.
Jay Gatrell; Philip Molebash
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 4566–4567
As higher education experiences budget cuts, education programs have inadvertently been neglected as units are unable to replace faculty. As a result, a class of "accidental" teacher educators has emerged to fill the gaps. The session explores...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Science, Faculty, Schools
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Technology in Teaching: Just How Confident are Preservice Teachers?
Philip Molebash; Natalie Milman
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 1649–1655
This paper examines the effectiveness of increasing confidence of preservice teachers in using technology for personal and instructional purposes as a result of participating in an introductory educational technology course offered at the University ...
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Digital Historical Inquiry Project
Peter Doolittle; Philip Molebash; John Lee; David Hicks; Cheryl Bolick
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 3155–3158
The Digital Historical Inquiry Project is an effort to create and grow a consortium of schools and colleges of education interested in promoting historical inquiry in the preparation of pre-service social studies teachers. The Consortium will...
Topics: Teachers, Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Schools
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Multimedia, Historical Inquiry and Preservice Teacher Education: Fostering a Networked Collaboration to Facilitate Wise Practices in 21st Century Social Studies Classrooms, Part 2
Philip Molebash Molebash; David Hicks; Peter Doolittle; Thomas Ewing; John Lee; Cheryl Bolick; Mark Hofer; Kathy Swan
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 2020–2024
It is assumed that when used effectively technology can improve the preparation of social studies teachers and improve student performance. The central issue is not the quantity of the focus on technology, but rather the quality. In our enthusiasm,...
Topics: Students, Networking Technologies, Social Studies, Teachers
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Aiming for Inquiry: A Deep and Wide View of Exemplary Strategies for Preparing Teachers to Teach for Inquiry
Philip Molebash; Bernie Dodge; John Lee; Joe Garofalo; Randy Bell; Carl Young
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3911–3914
Of the valleys and peaks of learning experiences, inquiry could be considered the Mount Everest. In the battle to increase student engagement and achievement, there has been a clear shift in the goals of learning—a direction in which authentic...
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Multimedia, Historical Inquiry and Preservice Teacher Education: Fostering a Networked Collaboration to Facilitate Wise Practices in 21st Century Social Studies Classrooms, Part 1
Philip Molebash; David Hicks; Peter Doolittle; Thomas Ewing; John Lee; Cheryl Bolick; Mark Hofer; Kathy Swan
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 2016–2019
It is assumed that when used effectively technology can improve the preparation of social studies teachers and improve student performance. The central issue is not the quantity of the focus on technology, but rather the quality. In our enthusiasm,...
Topics: Teachers, Social Studies, Networking Technologies, Students
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Aiming for Inquiry: A Deep and Wide View of Exemplary Strategies for Preparing Teachers to Teach for Inquiry
Philip Molebash; Bernie Dodge; John Lee; Joe Garofalo; Randy Bell; Carl Young
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3907–3910
Of the valleys and peaks of learning experiences, inquiry could be considered the Mount Everest. In the battle to increase student engagement and achievement, there has been a clear shift in the goals of learning—a direction in which authentic...
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Teaching Teachers to Use Digital Primary Source Materials in Social Studies: A Symposium, Part 2
Cheryl Franklin; Cheryl Bolick; John Lee; Adam Friedman; Philip Molebash; David Hicks; Scott Waring; Peter Doolittle; Tom Snediker
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 4093–4097
Digital primary source materials have developed a significant place in K-12 and preservice social studies classrooms over the past decade. This access and availability has impacted K-12 curriculum and pedagogy (ISTE, 2000, 2002). Increasingly,...
Topics: Teaching Methods, Social Sciences, Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education, Social Studies
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Teaching Teachers to Use Digital Primary Source Materials in Social Studies: A Symposium, Part 1
Cheryl Franklin; Cheryl Bolick; John Lee; Adam Friedman; Philip Molebash; David Hicks; Scott Waring; Peter Doolittle; Tom Snediker
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 4088–4092
Digital primary source materials have developed a significant place in K-12 and preservice social studies classrooms over the past decade. This access and availability has impacted K-12 curriculum and pedagogy (ISTE, 2000, 2002). Increasingly,...
Topics: Educational Technology, Social Studies, Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Methods, Social Sciences