Kent State Social Studies Goes to OCSS!
March 26 & 27 - Nine Current Kent State Faculty and Graduate and Undergraduate Students presented at and attended the Ohio Council for the Social Studies Annual Meeting. Several graduates of our programs who are current teachers also presented.
To check out the OCSS website, visit their site at http://www.ocss.org/index.html Use this link to view the 2009 OCSS conference program.
Below are descriptions and links to the slide or websites for presentations of some of those from KSU. (This is still in progress- Check back soon!)
Dr. Todd Hawley Promoting citizen action and participatory democratic citizenship in US History
Description: The session explores ways to incorporate citizen action and participatory democratic citizenship into teaching US History. Participants will examine and discuss lesson ideas drawing on the Academic Content Standards.
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Andy Hostetler To Tech or Not to Tech: Purposeful use of Technology in Social Studies
Description: In teaching for democratic citizenship we need to consider technology instruction and learning for students to be prepared for a global society,but that technology use must be purposeful, meaningful, and relevant to student s' learning experiences.
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Dr. Alicia Crowe What's math got to do with it? Numeracy & Social Studies Education
Description: How are decisions that citizens make influenced by understandings of particular aspects of mathematics? This session will explore this question as well as provide ways to incorporate the citizenship aspects of mathematics into social studies teaching to enhance student learning.
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Michael Levicky, Katie Anderson Knapp, & Jeff Drake The Hundred Years War: A century of Social Studies (1900 - 2000)
Description: This multi-media presentation chronicles one-hundred years of issues and trends in social studies education from the Committee of Ten and the roots of the history and geography disciplines to the current doctrine of standards and "No Child Left Behind."
