Technology in retrospect : social studies in the information age, 1984-2009

• Other Authors: Diem, Richard A. (Editor), Berson, Michael J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2010]
• Series: International social studies forum, the series.
• Subjects: Social sciences > United States > Computer-assisted instruction.; Information technology > United States.; Educational technology > United States.; Education > Effect of technological innovations on > United States.; Education > Teaching > Subjects > Social Science.; Educational equipment and technology, computer-aided learning (CAL); Teaching of a specific subject.; Educational: Social sciences, social studies.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806617326
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-040-5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 318 pages) : illustrations

January 2009 marked the 25th anniversary of one of the most famous three minutes of television history. It was during half-time of the 1984 Super Bowl that APPLE show cased its new Macintosh Computer in an avant-guard commercial. In the following three weeks sales of the new computer, in both the pu...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. As it was--1984 / Richard A. Diem
• Chapter 2. In the beginning, apple: Ways in which the vision progressed / Cheryl A. Franklin Torrez
• Chapter 3. Young learners: Constructing social studies with technology / Linda Bennett
• Chapter 4. The internet in social studies classrooms: Lost opportunity or unexplored frontier? / Adam Friedman and Phillip J. VanFossen
• Chapter 5. Digital history and the emergence of digital historical literacies / John Lee
• Chapter 6. From personal pastime to curricular resource: The case of digital documentaries in the social studies / Meghan McGlinn Manfra and Thomas C. Hammond
• Chapter 7. Where we've been where we are where we're going: Geospatial technologies and social studies / Marsha Alibrandi, Andrew Milson, and Eui-kyung Shin
• Chapter 8. Framing children as citizens: A journey from the real world to digital spaces / Ilene R. Berson
• Chapter 9. Wired to act: Black youth's civic engagement and technology use in 21st century elections / Patrice Preston-Grimes
• Chapter 10. An examination of technology use in middle school social studies classrooms during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election cycle: A case study / June Byng
• Chapter 11. High school utilization of technology as a source of information for the 2008 U.S. Presidential election: A case study / Vanessa Hammler Kenon
• Chapter 12. Consumers or producers of democracy: Moving civic education from the information to the empowerment age / Joe O'Brien
• Chapter 13. Globally connected social studies: Making it real, making it relevant / Tim Dove, Jeff Elliott, Merry Merryfield, and Betsy Sidor
• Chapter 14. Media convergence and the social studies / Jeremy Stoddard
• Chapter 15. Social and cultural implications of technology integration in social studies education / Cheryl Mason Bolick
• Chapter 16. Social studies and technology 2009-2034 / David Valdez, B. Justin Reich, and Michael J. Berson
• About the authors.