Integrating the Web and Technology

into the Social Studies Classroom

Presented by Mark E. Moran

Founder & CEO, Dulcinea Media

NSSSA Conference

December 1, 2011

• Do I have to copy ALL of this

down?

Links to this presentation and all resources mentioned are included in a blog post at

http://bit.ly/NSSSA11

Our mission: to help educators teach students how to use the Web effectively.

Mark E. Moran Twitter: @findingDulcinea

•Corporate Attorney•Pioneering Internet Executive•Parent of three in grades 6, 9, 12•District Curriculum Committee•15 education conferences in past year

Learning is relevant when the student…

• Understands how this information or skill has some application to his life;

• Has an opportunity to follow his own process rather than just learn “the facts;”

• Is not just learning content and skills, but is reflecting on their work and their progress as learners.

– Peter Pappas @edteck

“Teachers waiting for a workshop to show them how to use technology are never going to do it.

You have to jump in and try something.” 

-- Brent Jorth Teacher, Waukee, IA

@bjorth

Learn From Your Colleagues

• #SSChat • #EdChat

• EdCamps (EdCamp SS Philly March 2012)

@glennw98

@johnsonmaryj

@jsmummert

TED Talks Demystified, The History Teacher’s Attic

Find ideas for lesson plans on websites...

@edsitement

@highschoolpsych

Use the Web to ...

• Find & evaluate an endless array of primary sources.

• Empower students as creators and publishers

• Connect and collaborate with other classrooms

• Promote change and global understanding

Primary Sources Are…

Sources created around the time of an event

free of historical interpretation

offer a unique perspective

represent an era or moment in time

By Studying Primary Sources, Students…

build standards-based skills such as critical thinking.

learn to recognize that the record-keepers saw the world through a singular lens.

learn to apply new knowledge to dynamic projects.

Indeed, they become historians.

Historic speeches, letters, and essays

Political Cartoons

Videos

Interviews

Interviews

Audio recordingsAudio recordings

Historic and international newspapers

Artwork and Photographs

August 14, 1945, Times Square New York City

Picturing America – Themes - Courage

For a more global perspective

Using the Web, students become creators...

•Students at Springfield Township High School in Pennsylvania used Wikispaces and Web research to create their own online U.S. History textbook, covering the past decade.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1JHjXtw1Xg&feature=player_embedded

My 6th grade used Wallwisher for h/w tonight. Answered 2 questions on book they're reading.

-- Shirley (@8rinaldi) humanities teacher

Using the web, students become active learners and global

citizens....

“In real-time, sitting in a classroom in semi-rural Maryland, my 9th grade Human Geography students reached out to the world, asked it a question, and got a response.”

- Shelly Blake Plock, @teachpaperless

Tools for creating a global classroom:

“When you have a friend in a country where news is happening, you start paying attention more than you would if you didn’t know anybody there.”

-- Bill Reilly Social Studies Teacher

“Now that you’ve done the research on the topic, how can you affect positive change on that topic on a local level?” --Elizabeth Devine

Put history in context with timelines:

Animations

Simulations