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ERIC Number: EJ773114
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 21
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 29
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0093-3104
Technology in the Elementary Social Studies Classroom: Teacher Preparation Does Matter
Franklin, Cheryl A.; Molebash, Philip E.
Theory and Research in Social Education, v35 n2 p153-173 Spr 2007
This article describes the findings of a five-year longitudinal study examining 23 elementary teachers' use of technology in the classroom. Specifically, it describes how these teachers' experiences in a technology-enriched elementary social studies methods course, taken in the fall of 2000, have affected their attitudes towards and use of technology in their classrooms. Many have speculated that the demands of the first few years of teaching can dwarf the effects of teacher preparation, therefore reexamining the effects of preservice education in their fourth year of inservice teaching provides a perspective we need to validate and improve our efforts to better prepare elementary teachers to use technology to teach social studies. (Contains 1 table.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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