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Woodson, Ashley N. – Social Education, 2015
Google and other online search engines can provide immediate answers to empirical questions about history. However, this immediacy may undermine higher-level historical reasoning and student engagement in historical research. It is important that teachers continue to develop strategies that support students' active engagement with online…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, History
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Olwell, Russell B. – Social Education, 1999
Uses letters of John Kay, a Union Army soldier, to initiate a technology-based project that illustrates reasons for fighting in the Civil War, the daily life of a soldier, and the tragedies families endured. Explains that students learn that history is filled with real people who lived and died for their beliefs. (CMK)
Descriptors: Civil War (United States), Diaries, Group Activities, Internet