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Social Studies and Technology in Education engages candidates with skills and thinking processes of historians. Candidates develop strategies of utilizing primary source documents to further the ends of inquiry learning. Candidates explore ways to infuse global perspectives in teaching geographic and economic developments within the world. Candidates examine social studies software, and utilize various forms of technology, including films and media, in order to stimulate critical thinking. Candidates develop curriculum materials for use in the classroom that incorporate state and national standards in social studies education, and further literacy and study skills by focusing upon close reading of historical materials. Candidates examine a variety of assessment strategies as they develop exemplary projects for their portfolio.
Prerequisite: EDPC 603, EDPC 605