Technology for High School Social Studies

Social Studies Learning Problems

Technology

Relative Advantage

Expected Outcome

The Web allows for easy access to world news sites, as well as 1. Current EventsBlogs. RSS and Feed staying current with world Demon to help and local events organize your Blogs

Aggregate news sites like Drudge Report allow for easy access to a variety of news and editorial sites in one location, as well as FeedDemon

Students should be able to have a greater understanding of world events and connections into politics and economics

FeedDemon Drudge Report

Many students are able to kinestetically demonstrate learning through active skits, newscast, acting out a concept or idea. It also allows for students to iMovie,Movie Maker, demonstrate learning Voicethread, through different Camtasia, Slideshare modalities.

2. Students looking for a creative way to present material for projects

Students are able to express learning through alternative methedologies. More artistic students can have an opportunity to express their skills and Social Studies knowledge as well.

iMovie Movie Maker VoiceThread Camtasia

Many students retain more information by having the materiial Graphic organizers and presented in a visual format. mind mapping programs Students will be able to transfere allow students to this information to their long term organize the material in a memories if they have a way to Kidspiration, mind way that makes sense to organize and categorize the mapping software them. It also allows information that is presented to (Xmind), graphic students to see the them. It will also help students to organizers, interactive connections between make connections and build whiteboards ideas and concepts. understanding.

3. Student need tools to help them organize knowledge to build understanding and transfer to long term memory

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4. Students need to have the ability to collaborate with classmates and other students around the globe.

TodaysMeet, popplet, Skype, Google Docs, Interactive Whiteboards, Voice Thread, Socrative

Students will have the opportunity to practice and build their collaborations skills. As well as solving problems through group work.

Collaboration skills are a vital career skill as a part of the 21st century workforce. Students who have been exposed to this type of learning environment will be well prepared for careers in their future.

TodaysMeet popplet Skype google VoiceThread

If students are interested in what they are doing, if they are allowed to be a creative director and have Web 2.0 tools vary in choice, it gives them ownership of many ways and offer their work. They are free to express students with a wide what they know the way that works variety of options allowing best for them. Individualization of for maximum flexibility education is a huge advantage of and creativity educational technology.

Blogs,presentation software, movie making 5. Students have to be software,Wikis, able to express what they Weebly,Animoto, know in a variety of ways. Prezi.

Weebly Blogger Animoto Prezi

Students immediately collect correct citation in a variety of formats; bibliogrpahies are created, stored and available on the web. This teaches students to reference their material Citations and bibliographies are and avoid plagarism correctly and consistently issues. generated.

Web browser plug in and online citation makers and 6. Apply research citation bibliography methods to social studies generators: Zotero, research papers. Bibme, Easybib.com

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Students use creativity software such as Pixie, eInstruction software and hardware such as a Mobi. Students develop collaborative and cooperation skills needed for todays Provide students careeers. Many employers are in opportunities to work need of workers that can work well collaboratively with active in groups to solve complex engagement. problems.

7. Students need meaningful experiences working in groups.

Mobi Pixie

Better participation leads to rich discussion and sharing and development of ideas in class. Using the whiteboard provides instant results and then an opportunity for discussion feedback. For students reluctant to Promethean engage, the response interactive whiteboard systems allow teachers to response system, guage all students, even 8. Students are reluctant SMART board the reluctant class to participate in class response clickers. participators.

Students learn to take active participation in applying their knowledge and concepts of topic being studied and teachers can better monitor students understanding of the material.

SMART board response clickers. Promethean interactive whiteboard response system.

9. Difficulty understanding or putting abstract economic and political systems into practical terms.

Allows students to explore the concepts with links provided, allows for collaboration and group webquests, zunal.com work.

Increase student motivation through engagement and have a better understanding of material through personal interaction.

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Allows for students to fully engage in their learning process and success in school by understaning their textbook resource. This allows a student to be independant and not need an aide in the classroom and assists them outside of class as well.

10. Students learn better when the material is read natural reader. to them audacity

Increase students success by having the student have their test or other text material read to them.

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