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scott klepesch

Social Media Classroom - 0 views

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    " Social Media Classroom Using social media to learn about social media issues Today's students live in a world in which all of the traditional elements of their education-texts, lectures, connections with the world outside the campus-have been transformed by the ubiquitous presence of laptops and Wi-Fi. In their lives outside the classroom, and in the lives of their families, communities, and fellow citizens, important questions arise about the effects of using digital media-questions about identity, relationships, community, collective action, public sphere, social capital"
scott klepesch

Education in a social world | 21st Century Education | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

  • he current educational system is based on individual and teacher learning. However, this simply isn’t realistic in today’s classroom. Students are social creatures and their education should be delivered in a way that is more in line with their day-to-day interactions. The solution? Go back to the principle that worked so well in the single school house model: social learning.  Student-to-student and social learning has already proven to be effective and cost effective (it’s free).
  • As part of a redesign of our instructional model, students should be provided with the infrastructure to collaborate with each other live, in real-time, 24 hours a day. We should give students free, collaborative, multimedia online study rooms with access to standards-aligned content. We should do this because we have a social responsibility to do it, but it also makes good plain economic sense.
  • Why limit your student population to a few hundred when you can leverage the knowledge of hundreds of millions?
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    Leveraging the power of students in the classroom.
Debra Gottsleben

Social media: A guide for researchers | Research Information Network - 0 views

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    "Social media is an important technological trend that has big implications for how researchers (and people in general) communicate and collaborate. Researchers have a huge amount to gain from engaging with social media in various aspects of their work."
Debra Gottsleben

How Social Media Affects Content Relevance in Search - 0 views

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    Interesting article on search results being affected by social media
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    interesting article about SEO (search engine optimization). Good to know how search results are affected by social media.
scott klepesch

Free Technology for Teachers: Most Popular Posts of the Year - #12, 11 Social Studies R... - 0 views

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    "All week I've started each day with a list of eleven good resources to try in different content areas. On Monday I shared mathematics resources. On Tuesday I shared science resources. On Wednesday I shared language arts resources. And today I bring you eleven good social studies resources to try in 2011. "
scott klepesch

85+ Resources: Educator Guide for Integrating Social Media « emergent by design - 0 views

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    "85+ Resources: Educator Guide for Integrating Social Media"
Debra Gottsleben

Using the web and technology in the social studies class - 0 views

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    lots of links to resources specifically for social studies classes.
scott klepesch

Social Studies Chat - 0 views

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    Social Studies Ning
Debra Gottsleben

Free Technology for Teachers: 13 Good Resources for Social Studies Teachers - 0 views

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    Some excellent ideas to use in your classes.
Debra Gottsleben

Using social media for student research, part 1: setting up | edSocialMedia - 0 views

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    Excellent post on research process.
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    Excellent post on improving the research process.
Debra Gottsleben

Gooru - 0 views

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    An Open Educational Resources site OER; in beta now. "Gooru is a search engine for learning that allows you to explore and study over 2,600 standards-aligned and personalized study guides. Study guides cover 5th-12th grade math and science topics, and resources include digital textbooks, animations, instructor videos and more. All resources are vetted and organized by teachers or Gooru's content experts, so you don't have to sort through the mess of subpar educational resources available online yourself. Gooru also makes it easy for you to connect with your worldwide peers to make learning a social experience. Post questions to an active community of students, teachers and experts, or find friends and peers to study with. Best of all, Gooru adapts to you. Based on the topics you study and your performance on self-assessments, Gooru suggests resources and study guides that will help you master the concepts. You can track your study habits and monitor your performance on any of the topics you study."
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    Not sure what resources are here for social studies but still looks like a very interesting site. Think you should check it out for resources and to share with students.
Debra Gottsleben

a-teacher's guide-to-civics-education-on-the-web/ - 0 views

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    Links to many different history websites from presidential libraries to games to social studies blogs and so much more!
scott klepesch

Using iPads in Social Studies - 0 views

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    Pilot program for the state of Virginia
Debra Gottsleben

Zinn Education Project - 0 views

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    "The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the use of Howard Zinn's best-selling book A People's History of the United States and other materials for teaching a people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. The Zinn Education Project is coordinated by two non-profit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. Its goal is to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. The empowering potential of studying U.S. history is often lost in a textbook-driven trivial pursuit of names and dates. Zinn's A People's History of the United States emphasizes the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history. Students learn that history is made not by a few heroic individuals, but instead by people's choices and actions, thereby also learning that their own choices and actions matter."
scott klepesch

The Students as Historian - 0 views

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    I asked a social studies teacher, "who's the historian in your classroom?" After a bit of give and take, we concluded that in the traditional classroom, the students get to watch (and listen) to the teacher be historian
Debra Gottsleben

The Future of Reading and Writing is Collaborative | Spotlight on Digital Media and Lea... - 0 views

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    very interesting post on reading and writing. Although not specifically directed at social studies there are many connections to the Soc. Studies classroom
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    Article is directed at English teachers but lots of ideas for social studies classroom
scott klepesch

Academic Content Areas | The Blue School - 0 views

  • This content area provides a context in which children can explore the connections between self, family, community and the world at large.  Each area of emphasis within Human Studies and Global Citizenship plays a critical role in deepening children’s understanding of how their world works. Exploration by teachers, children, and families extends into the study of how people can most successfully communicate, collaborate, and connect within the context of the community.  As with other curriculum areas, teachers look for and create opportunities for relating this content to real life. Exploring identity, relationships and the ways we interact and communicate integrates social development, empathy, and the pursuit of understanding one another throughout the daily life of the school. Children expand these opportunities by reflecting upon the characteristics and experiences, past and present, of diverse cultures and populations of the world.  As the children mature, this area of the core curriculum supports their ability to grasp increasingly abstract concepts and complex ideas about human beings and the world at large.
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    Description of academic content areas for the Blue School. In particular the description of what we may consider to be social studies or history is under Human Studies and Global Citizenship: This content area provides a context in which children can explore the connections between self, family, community and the world at large. Each area of emphasis within Human Studies and Global Citizenship plays a critical role in deepening children's understanding of how their world works. Exploration by teachers, children, and families extends into the study of how people can most successfully communicate, collaborate, and connect within the context of the community.
scott klepesch

Social Media and the Preservation of Liberty | Ed Reach - 0 views

  • For the first time in their history Egyptians are pursuing their own liberty and we all watched as they took a great leap toward true freedom when their president for the past several decades, Mubarak, stepped down. What was amazing for the rest of the world to watch was how this monumental feat occurred, in no small, part through social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
  • I would like to propose some ways educators can help students understand, create, and preserve liberty by pursuing a connected ‘general knowledge’ as described by John Adams.
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    Ways educators can help students understand, create and preserve liberty by pursuing a connected 'general knowledge' as described by John Adams.
Debra Gottsleben

50 Great Sites For Social Studies Teachers (I) « History Tech - 0 views

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    list of sites for study of history
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