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Social Studies and Web 2.0 Project Help?
Okay. First post.
Again as I mentioned in our brief meeting I had a few ideas, but was in need of some suggestive support and assistance to move forward - I am still relatively new (in my second year of course work) and any direction would be fantastic.
In particular one project was the use of 2.0 tools in the social studies classroom with a unit or lesson on the Federalist Papers. I want to post here my original web site project (which is still rough in some areas) which I feel is very workable and modifiable for use, to see if there was any interest for helping me move beyond my current stage and towards a working paper/research. Does it have merit, is it looking forward - It was created for an Instructional Design class project a year ago - my attempt was a problem based approach, under the guise of a call from James Madison to remake the Federalist papers for 20th century (21st century) citizens or "Netizens." Students read the original, and using prezi constructed their view of what that paper meant, and then reconstructed the paper as a "glog."
I used my recent methods class to write up a research proposal for this idea- but I am still looking for a second set of eyes and mind to engage the paper to help me formulate a strong research proposal. I think it is good - but second opinions are great.
So Ill go ahead and put both the website and the proposal here - for comments and critique. I figure I have to get used to exposing my mind for critical analysis, so I better do it sooner than later.
The Website is
http://acbruewer.iweb.bsu.edu/federalistglogs/page1/index.html
Ill attach the paper below. Any and all comments or ideas or help is welcome. My biggest worry is the literature is as current as possible, and the strength of the actual study proposed. My research methods teacher was adamant I use a quasi - experimental study, but I wonder if this is the best direction to go with this idea.
Thanks so much!
Aaron
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Permalink Reply by Terry K. Smith on -
Aaron,
I would say your project certainly has merit. I read your paper and looked at your web site, I am familiar with glogster and prezi. If I understand your intention, it is to spark renewed interest in SS among high schoolers, to dispell the notion that SS is somehow inherently boring ( I hear that also), and to do a comparative study with and without technology on the same content.
Generally, I think that using an edtech approach will go a long way toward bringing life to what I thnk is an already fascinating discipline - but unfortunately left in the hands of many low knowledge teachers/coaches (in my opinion). In elementary classes, I found that project based SS was a huge hit, connecting around the world. Then we have GPS approaches - students love this. I conducted a web-based study during my masters comparing content studied from the book vs from web pages that I prepared based on book content - kids easily scored higher in the web based group, 4th graders.
So that's my 2 cents.
By the way, I'm changing jobs - accepted an assistant professor job at Western Illinois University in social studies for next fall - one of the classes I will do is called Teaching With a Global Perspective ( I can smell the technology already).
Terrytwitter: smithtk
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