Current Issue and Recently Published Work

Issue 7 is the latest complete issue. For previous issues, see the archives.

Issue No. 7: Spring, 2010

Feature Articles

The mergence of CHAT with TPCK: A new framework for researching the integration of desktop documentary making in history teaching and learning (April 08, 2010)
James E. Schul (Ohio Northern University)

The description of the integration of desktop documentary making into a history classroom requires a research model or heuristic capable of capturing students' interactions with various mediating agents, including their history teacher. This article claims that a mergence of Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) with Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) provides a model sufficiently dynamic to describe how students making documentaries draw upon their teacher's instruction, the software's history making operations, and other resources while engaged in the compositional process.

Reviews

Book review: Teaching the New Writing: Technology, change, and assessment in the 21st-century classroom, (June 15, 2009)
Jenna McWilliams (Indiana University)

Issue in progress:

Issue No. 8 (open for submissions)

Feature Articles

Building wikis and blogs: Pre-service teacher experiences with web-based collaborative technologies in an interdisciplinary methods course (June 11, 2010)
John Lee (North Carolina State University)
Carl Young (North Carolina State University)

Abstract: This article describes findings from an investigation of student learning in a teacher education course using collaborative Web 2.0 technologies. Pre-service teachers in an interdisciplinary English language arts / social studies methods course completed a selection of activities using a course blog and a separate course wiki. The research focused on the following broadly conceived questions: How do pre-service teachers use collaborative web-based technologies in a methods course? To what extent does the use of collaborative web-based technologies affect the preparation of pre-service teachers? Students experienced mixed levels of success using the blog and wiki illustrating the need for careful consideration and further investigation when using Web 2.0 technologies.

Essays

A critical look at the role of technology as a transformative agent, (August 10, 2010)
Grinell Smith (SJSU)

Designed and hosted by Interactive Communications & Simulations, copyright 2009.