These are two new technology reports worth reading.

Report: Teens, Social Networking, Mobile, Generations, Blogs, Web 2.0
Social Media and Young Adults
by Amanda Lenhart, Kristen Purcell, Aaron Smith, Kathryn Zickuhr
Feb 3, 2010
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx


Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds
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University of South Florida

College of Education

Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction

Teaching and Learning in the Content Area: Social Studies Education

Fall 2010 Cohort



The University of South Florida social science education faculty invites highly qualified individuals to apply for its Fall 2010 Doctoral Cohort. The University of South Florida is one of Florida’s top three public research universities (http://www.usf.edu/). Established in 1956, USF prov… Continue

A recent History News Network blog post ponders a future of "history without reading" (where visual literacy has replaced the literacy of traditional reading) and argues that history teachers "can't simply march further into the 21st century believing they can go on doing what they've always done."

Several history teachers criticized the post arguing that "real historians" work with traditional sources or that it wasn't their resp… Continue