The SITE social studies content strand needs a paper that focuses on the state of the field.
The paper will be posted on the SITE Web site and also published in Contemporary Issues …

ABSTRACT Web 2.0 software, in particular wikis, have the potential to allow students to
become active contributors to the Internet and, as a result, restructure traditional learning …

A limited body of research examines the extent to which social studies teachers are actually
utilizing primary sources that are accessible in traditional classroom-based formats versus …

Through surveys, interviews, observations, and field notes, I examined the beliefs and
practices of six high school world history teachers regarding the use of digital primary …

This study conducted a review of the literature related to the use of the Internet for general
classroom teaching and, more specifically, for the teaching of social studies. The study first …

In a study investigating the effects of student engagement in inquiry learning through the
development of Web sites, nearly every student reported having enjoyed the project, and the …

In this qualitative case study the authors explored secondary social studies preservice
teachers' abilities to discern the digitized primary resources available to them for historical …

This study replicated a 1999 survey study of classroom Internet use by social studies
teachers (6–12) in Indiana. The 1999 study indicated that although 80% wished to be using …

This study reflects an examination of four teachers and their approaches to teaching the
Holocaust and comparative genocide. The purpose was to address four succinct research …

Educators increasingly support the use of computer-supported instruction in social studies
education. However few studies have been conducted to study teacher use of computer …