To achieve the desired gains with technology, social studies
methods courses must not focus only on making preservice teachers proficient
at using technology, but must promote strategies to integrate technology
to enhance teaching and learning (Cantu, 2000). Technology rich
instruction models effective use, explores the barriers and benefits of
technology integration (Keiper, Harwood, & Larson, 2000), and thereby surmounts
the traditional absence of technology in methods courses (Rose &
Winterfeldt, 1998).