Technology and Culture: A Conceptual Framework

Richard Diem

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 1465–1470

Cultural attributes define a society and the several stages in the lives of its populace.These notions and phases are both formal and informal and graduation from one and intiation into another are often marked with rituals defined by society. As...

Promoting Powerful Social Studies Teaching and Learning through the use of Technology`

Kara Dawson; Michael Berson; Angela Harwood; Bruce Larson; Richard Diem

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 1550–1554

In this paper we will discuss the Social Studies component of the Impact Grant, a multiyear grant to develop content-specific applications of technology in teacher education. We believe that effective integration of technology into the social...

Topics: Educational Technology, Social Studies

A Different Look At Preparing Social Studies Teachers to Use Technology

Richard Diem

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 4781–4783

During the past decade and a half the national call for expanded use of technology in educational settings has encouraged teacher education programs to develop within their students abilities to integrate technology into instructional paradigms. ...

Topics: Social Studies, Educational Technology, Instructional Design

Technology and Civic Education: New Directions - New Issues

Richard A. Diem

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1995 (1995) pp. 76–77

The United States is in the midst of a revolution as powerful as any movement in human history. This revolution, which could best be called the “mental communications revolution”, is being brought about by rapid changes in information/communication...

Developing Technological Skills and Applications with Social Studies Preservice Students

Richard A. Diem

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1994 (1994) pp. 186–187

The ways in which we prepare teachers are rapidly and fundamentally changing in both structure and instruction. Many of these changes are rooted in new ways of generating, storing, communicating, and using information. As we shift from the...

Paradigms for Preservice Teachers: Emphasis on Technological Integration

Richard A. Diem

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1997 (1997) pp. 739–742

The continuous advances in technology over the past two decades have radically altered our access to information,

Paradigms for Preservice Teachers: Emphasis on Technological Integration

Richard A. Diem

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 739–742

The continuous advances in technology over the past two decades have radically altered our access to information,

Lessons for Technological I Nfusion: Preparing Social Studies Teachers to Use Technology

Richard Diem

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1996 (1996) pp. 136–137