Alternative technologies and social studies textbooks |
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| Authors: | Stephen T Kerr |
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| Institution: | (1) University of Washington, 122 Miller Hall, DQ-12, 98195 Seattle, Wash. |
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| Abstract: | In order to determine the potential of alternative technologies in social studies education, we must understand the goals
of such education, the capabilities of the technologies, and teachers’ and students’ responses to new technologies. The author
suggests that the new technologies can contribute to the goals of learning about the past, learning about democratic life
and institutions, and making students knowledgeable as consumers and producers of information. One major obstacle is a lack
of time and money for teachers to experiment with the technologies.
Stephen T. Kerr is professor of education in the College of Education at the University of Washington. His research focuses
on the application of new technologies in schools and other educational environments, and particularly on the ways in which
technology affects the social structure (roles and expectations, instructional patterns, organization) of those institutions.
He has done work on human-computer interaction, as well as on how new communication technologies have changed the educational
system of the former USSR. |
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