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Integrating Technology (and Literacy) into Secondary Social Studies

STANDARDS BEYOND SOCIAL STUDIES ESSENTIAL STANDARDS and CCSS:
ISTE Standards for Educators
  *  Learner  *  Leader  *  Citizen  *  Collaborator * Designer * Facilitator * Analyst
ISTE Standards for Students
* Empowered Learner * Digital Citizen * Knowledge Constructor * Innovative Designer * Computational Thinker * Creative Communicator * Global Collaborator
NCEES - NC Educator Evaluation System
  • Standard 3, Element A - Teachers align their instruction with the NC Standard Course of Study includes - "Middle and high school teachers incorporate literacy instruction within the content area or discipline."
  • Standard 4, Element D - Teachers integrate and utilize technology in their instruction
CONTACT METRC:
cedmediacenter
​@ncsu.edu
919-515-3191



Technology Integration Models

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TPACK and SAMR are other models that you might hear about or study over the course of your career.

Selecting a Technology Tool - Check out this Evaluation Guide from TripleE

1. I've noticed that my students aren't as engaged with my lessons as I had hoped, so I'm thinking of new ways to involve them and have them do some participatory learning. I know about the tools Voicethread and Peardeck, and I can't decide which one to use. Which tool will have the greatest impact on my students and their engagement with the material?
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2. I would like to do a formative assessment of my students now that we've gotten to the end of the unit. I'd like to know if I need to do any remediation or provide enrichment depending on students' mastery of the content. I'm trying to decide between Kahoot and a Google Forms Quiz to give the assessment. Which will give me the feedback I'm looking for?
3. My students are researching and I want them to easily cite sources. I know EasyBib is the go-to student citation generator, but I'm curious about how the Google Explore tool might work. It might be easier to keep students in their Google Doc then sending them out to another website, but I'm not sure. Which citation generator will allow my students to cite their sources most easily?
4. My students are working on a project where they need to narrate the steps they took to solve a problem. I can't decide if I should gather their responses in Flip or if I should have them use Screencastify to show what they did. Which tool will best capture the processes the students used to accomplish their goals?
5. I'd like for my students to read historical documents, then answer questions to have discussions about them. I recently heard that ActivelyLearn has a huge library of primary documents that come with questions. I might use that, but a colleague told me about InsertLearning, an extension that can turn any website into content for students. I can add my own questions there and utilize its tools to customize the student experience. Which tool will do the best job of getting students excited about old documents?
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One of my Google Gurus - Kasey Bell - ShakeUp Learning

Literacy: Why does website/source evaluation matter?

Tools for Teaching Web/Source Evaluation:
Kathy Schrock

Literacy: How can you integrate reading/writing beyond student driven research?

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Newsela - Click here to enter our demo class! Join as a learner. NOTE: Later to create a teacher account, you will need a different username and password.
  • Highlight main idea(s) in yellow
  • Highlight 2 pieces of evidence/details in green
  • Highlight clues to the purpose of the text in pink
  • Take the Quiz - click on the activities to get started and be sure to click submit at the end
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Actively Learn - experience this interactive reading tool as a student -- NOTE: if you create a student account you will need a different email for your teacher account
  • Go to http://activelylearn.com and select Student Sign Up - use d7454 for the Class Code
  • Open one of the articles to experience an interactive reading assignment
  • Click here to see the teacher view of completed assignments
Getting Started 
  • Create a teacher account at http://activelylearn.com under "Teachers Sign Up" (I recommend selecting the Google option when creating your account)
  • Content - click on Catalog to explore what Actively Learn owns or click on Workspace to upload your own
  • You can upload up to 3 articles a month for free
  • You can add questions, notes links, etc. to the article now or wait until later

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