TPCK Chapter 6

TPACK Chapter 6

Social Studies

            As I read through the chapter on social studies, I felt like it heavily emphasized using technology correctly in your classes. It discussed how important it was for students to know what they are looking for on the Internet and how to find reliable sources that give correct factual information. Using technology in a social studies class is an excellent way to stay up to date on current events that are happening across the world, as well as an important aspect of locating historical information that students would not have access to any other way.

            Three positive reasons to use technology in a social studies classroom consist of the ability to access information that cannot be received otherwise, gaining the skills needed to negotiate and understand films, television shows, etc in historical context, and using technology as a form of communication and collaboration among peers and the world. As I was reading this section, I thought to myself how exciting it would be to create a television show or film over a topic covered in social studies and recreate the events that occurred. I think this would be an exciting form of assessment and it would require students to search the web for reliable and realistic sources.

            Using technology in creative ways in social studies gave me some ideas as to how I could use it in math. I think it is important, overall, for students to know how to search the Internet correctly for sources and information. I definitely feel that I could incorporate social studies into my algebra and geometry courses rather easy, not only for assessment purposes, but for activities that surround the mathematicians that created the formulas and ideas that we study and use everyday.