Greg Kulowiec described #sschat on Twitter to Kristen Schulten of the New York Times in 2011 in ways that still resonate with
the ways social studies educators use Twitter today:
Not exact matches
As long - time classroom teachers now working as teacher
educators preparing future middle - and high - school language arts and
social studies teachers, we persistently seek
ways to improve our coursework and clinical experiences.
Technology also offers a new
way for
educators to use students» lived experiences as content for
social studies instruction (Tally, 1996).
In «Which
Way to the Sleeping Giant,» Martorella (1997) called for
social studies educators to embrace technology integration for both its potential to impact the classroom and the world outside the school walls.
Thirteen
social studies educators explicitly cited
ways Twitter afforded experiences to learn from and with
educators from around the world.
The authors» efforts to more effectively guide the preparation of
social studies educators in the utilization of technological applications in more useful, efficient, and appropriate
ways is readily apparent and appreciated.
The
ways that
social media are already being leveraged by
social studies educators might provide fertile ground for consideration of what is possible.
Social studies educators can utilize Twitter in at least three general
ways: professional development (PD), communication, and class activities (Krutka, 2014).
This practitioner article discusses uses of geospatial technologies in a
social studies teacher education program as a
way of demonstrating how other teacher
educators might use geospatial technologies to prompt teacher candidates to new
ways of thinking about pedagogy and the world at large.
When we began our academic career,
way back when, our
educators made sure they covered all the important topics: math, science,
social studies, and language skills.