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There is growing evidence that student-centered learning activities promote the development of higher-order skills such as critical thinking and problem solving. However, there are difficulties associated with supporting student-centered learning....

The purpose of this demonstration session is to demo the Persistent Issues in History Network (PIHNet), a web-based teaching and learning environment to support students' historical thinking. This demonstration will: (1) discuss the overall design...

This presentation describes patterns of collaborative reflection in an online forum. Twenty secondary social teachers, who completed a two-week workshop on problem- based history inquiry in the summer of 2003, participated in an online forum during...

The Persistent Issues in History Network (PIHNet) is a web-based teaching and learning environment to support problem-based historical inquiry (PBHI) in social studies classrooms. This paper will: (1) discuss the overall design of the PIHNet...

This paper describes strategies used by the authors to assist preservice social studies teachers with understanding and applying models and practices for effectively integrating technology into their future classrooms—thus, strengthening the link...

Preliminary efforts to examine teachers’ online participation and depth of messages have tended to focus solely on message metrics (e.g., counting the number of messages). However, such efforts do not address online messages in relation to one...

This paper will provide an overview of the PBL-TECH project. The purpose of the PBL-TECH project is to design, disseminate, evaluate, and sustain an enhanced teacher preparation model that will provide teacher educators across the United States with ...

This paper reports on specific design aspects of our study from hypermedia-rich educative curriculum materials (ECMs), the possible effects they may have had on social studies teachers as they used the materials to plan and implement instruction,...

Relatively little research has attempted to understand social studies teacher educators’ uses of technologies that are specifically designed for teaching and learning discipline-specific pedagogy and content. The Wise Practice Case Database (WPCD)...